Mark Wakefield is a Managing Director at AlixPartners where he leads the Automotive Practice in the Americas. He joined the firm’s Detroit office in 2006 and spent 2010-2012 building an Automotive practice in AlixPartners’ Tokyo office before returning to Detroit to...
Rani Richardson brings technical expertise and extensive real-life mechanical engineering experience which includes composites and additive manufacturing design and manufacturing to her position as Director, Light Weight Engineering at Dassault Systèmes. In this role...
Mike “Mouse” McCoy is the CEO/Co Founder and Creative Director of the Digital Industrial start up company Hackrod. Prior to founding Hackrod Mouse was the CEO of the award-winning Entertainment Studio Bandito Brothers. During his ten years at the Helm of...
Michael Mikula began his career at Ford Motor Company in 1994 as a Tooling and Process Engineer in the Casting Division of PowerTrain Operations supporting Ford’s foundries in Windsor and Cleveland. He was selected to be the Manufacturing Engineering Manager for the...
Jose Chirino is the Technical Director for the High Performance Materials business unit at LANXESS Corporation, leading the Americas technical team on the development of new products and applications for engineering plastics in automotive and the electronics...
Kerry Brown, SAP evangelist and thought leader and VP Workforce Adoption, helps companies achieve organizational excellence with SAP to create value while becoming a best-run company. She is an international speaker and advisor on future of work, workforce adoption,...
John Murphy is a managing director and the lead US Auto analyst in Equity Research. He advises clients on investments in automobile manufacturers, suppliers, dealers and related businesses. Key pillars of his research portfolio include: Car Wars, Who Makes the Car,...
Dr. Jody Hall is the vice president of the automotive market for the American Iron and Steel Institute, where she is responsible for leadership of the Automotive Applications Council, a group of member steel producers, in automotive research, education and technology...
