Ford Motor Company

The Ford Motor Company (often referred to simply as Ford; sometimes nicknamed FoMoCo, {{NYSE|F}} is an automobile maker founded by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, and incorporated on June 16, 1903. According to Fortune magazine, DaimlerChrysler and Toyota Motor replaced Ford as the world's number two and three automobile manufacturers by revenue in 2004. For many years before that Ford was global number two behind General Motors. Ford remains one of the world's ten largest corporations by revenue.

Employees

Notable employees, past and present

• Clarence Avery, one of the developers of the assembly line
• Maurice Buckmaster (France; later of the French Resistance during WWII)
• Phillip Caldwell, successor to Iacocca as president and later the first non-family leader of the company upon Henry Ford II's retirement
• Bill Ford (Chairman and CEO, great grandson of Henry Ford)
• Berry Gordy, songwriter/record producer, founder of Motown Records
• Lee Iacocca (engineer, sales executive, and eventually Ford president)
• J. Edward Lundy, legendary financial executive within company
• Peter E. Martin, head of manufacturing at the Highland Park Plant
• J Mays (controversial automobile designer and current Chief Creative Officer)
• Robert McNamara (finance executive and eventually Ford president; later U.S. Secretary of Defense)
• George Murphy (later movie actor and ultimately U.S. Senator from California)
• Robert Lutz (later of Chrysler Corporation and General Motors)
• Jacques Nasser (president and CEO in the late 1990s, forced to resign)
• William Mayo (chief power engineer)
• Earl S. MacPherson (engineer; inventor of the MacPherson strut)
• Malcolm X (assembly line worker)
• Jim Padilla, president effective February 1 2005
• Don Peterson, chairman in the late 1980s
• "Red" Poling (president and later chairman in the early 1990s
• Jack Roush, engineer, later founded a performance engineering company specializing in modification of Ford products and successful NHRA and NASCAR racing teams
• "Marvelous Marv" Runyon, manufacturing executive, later chief of Nissan in the U.S., chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and United States Postmaster General
• Sir Nicholas Scheele, president 2001-2005
• Bob Seger, rock and roll singer
• Larry Shinoda, noted designer
• Charles E. Sorensen, Cast Iron Charlie, Assembly line inventor VP of mfg 1930s and early 1940s FORD would not have been successful without him.
• Tex Thornton, one of the "Whiz Kids" and later founder of Litton Industries
• Alexander James Trotman, chairman and CEO in the mid 1990s
• Coleman Young, later mayor of Detroit
• Al D. Harris, outstanding manufacturing Engineer

Diversity

Ford received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the report. In additon, Ford was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by Working Mothers magazine.

Related Topics:
Human Rights Campaign - 2004

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