Trevor J Rudderham

Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer

Trevor has over 30 years of international automotive experience. He started his career in the UK with Jaguar before moving to Ford in 1980. Since then he has worked for Ford in the UK, Germany and the USA in a variety of engineering, business, strategy and product planning positions. Trevor’s key strength is enormous breadth of product, geographic and cultural experience within the industry gained from doing business in all the major automotive markets in the world.

Most recently, Trevor was Director of Product Planning for all North American small vehicles with responsibility for planning in excess of $1 billion dollars of annual product investment for a diverse range of vehicle lines with annual revenue of over $18 billion within the Ford, Lincoln and Mercury portfolios. Prior to this, he had responsibility for managing Ford’s joint-venture with International/Navistar to produce Class 5-7 commercial trucks – a product range that is now achieving record sales. Trevor also was Chief Engineer for the Ford Freestyle, Ford Five Hundred and Mercury Montego product range, with a total of $1.5 billion of investment and annual revenue of $3 billion. This included responsibility for leveraging synergies with Volvo through use of a shared platform, technologies and supply base.

In addition to extensive and varied vehicle experience, Trevor also has a background in powertrain engineering, including responsibility for development of the Zetec SE engine in Europe, a world leading product acknowledged as the benchmark in its segment. He has also maintained positive business and technical relations with Yamaha Motor.

Trevor gained a First Class Honors Degree in Automotive Engineering from Loughborough University in England, graduating first in his class and receiving the Institute of Mechanical Engineers prize for outstanding final year work in addition to post-graduate studies at the INSEAD Business School in France.

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