Monday Afternoon Session, August 1, 1:30 –4:30 p.m.

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Automotive suppliers find themselves in an increasingly challenging business environment. Automakers’ demands for increased capability and responsibility, coupled with mounting financial and cost pressure, have combined to put suppliers under ever-increasing pressures to perform. Suppliers must not only respond to these challenges, but must do so in an environment of growing competition.

As a result of the challenging business environment they face, automotive suppliers have adopted several tactics—such as growing more capable by acquiring or merging with another firm, partnering with other suppliers, outsourcing work to lower cost regions, or optimizing key areas of their operations (e.g., supply chain integration).

This seminar will investigate recent business dynamics in the automotive supplier sector. Beginning with the changing demands of automakers, we will explore the drivers for an increasingly competitive automotive business environment. We will also investigate the tactics successful suppliers have employed to compete, and to thrive, in this challenging environment.

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Confirmed Speakers

Speaker presentations are underlined.

Mark Short , Partner, North American Automotive Leader, Transaction Advisory Services, Ernst and Young Global Automotive Center

Daron Gifford, Vice President, Automotive for the Americas Region, gedas, Inc.

Ed Hasler, President, Global Sealing Systems, Cooper Standard Automotive

Colleen Haley, President, Ford Business Unit, Yazaki North America

John Moloney, Vice President, Strategic Planning for the Americas Region, Bosch

Co-Chairs:

Steve Underwood , Director, Transportation and Information System Planning Group; and Bernard Swiecki, Project Manager, Economics and Business Group, Center for Automotive Research