Bill Ford is a prominent American businessman and is the chairman of Ford Motor Company
Bill Ford
@Businessman, Facts and Facts
May 3, 1957
Biography
Personal Details
- Birthday: May 3, 1957
- Nationality: American
- Famous: Businessman, Vegans, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Princeton University, Business People, Automobile Industry
- Spouses: Lisa Vanderzee
- Siblings: Elizabeth Kontulis, Martha Morse, Sheila Hamp
- Known as: William Clay Ford Jr.
- Universities:
- Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT),Princeton University
- MIT Sloan School of Management (1984)
- Princeton University (1979)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- The Hotchkiss School
Bill Ford born at
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Birth Place
He married Lisa Vanderzee, with whom he has four children. The family currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Personal Life
He has a black-belt in tae kwon do and is a vegan. He is also an avid fan of football as he currently heads the ‘Detroit Lions’ NFL franchise and also plays the guitar.
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Personal Life
He has played competitive hockey with his company hockey team from 2006 to 2010 and has even participated in the USA Hockey Pond Hockey National Championships.
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Personal Life
William Clay ‘Bill’ Ford, Jr., was born to Martha Firestone and William Clay Ford, Sr., in Detroit, Michigan. He is the great-grandson of Henry Ford, the renowned American industrialist.
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Childhood & Early Life
He studied at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and then studied at Princeton University in 1979. He majored in history and was made the president of ‘The Ivy Club’. When he was in university, he was a member of the rugby team and he was an ardent football fan.
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Childhood & Early Life
In 1979, he joined the ‘Ford Motor Company’ and initially worked with the product development team.
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Childhood & Early Life
In 1984, he received an S.M. in Management as a Sloan Fellow from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Childhood & Early Life
In 1986, he worked with ‘Ford of Europe’, a subsidiary company of Ford Motor Company, as administrator of commercial vehicle promotion. The following year, he ran the Ford enterprise in Switzerland as the managing director and successfully managed to resuscitate the enterprise.
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Career
In 1988, he was made the vice president of Ford Truck Operations. The same year, he was made a part of the board of directors and eventually went on to lead two critical boards, finance and environment/public policy.
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Career
In 1990, he was made the director of business strategy for motorized operations. It was during this period that he also served as the general manager of the ‘climate control division’.
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Career
By the mid-90s, he was being considered to take over the position of chairman and CEO from Alex Trotman. Till 1995, he also served as the treasurer of the ‘Detroit Lions’, an NFL team and was also made the vice chairman, where he assumed accountability for most of the processes.
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Career
He became the new chairman of the Ford Motor Company in 1999. As the new chairman of the company, he focused on building the company’s fiscal record, and swelling the market of the brand outside the United States.
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Career
He was inducted into the ‘Irish America magazine’s Hall of Fame’, in 2011.
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Awards & Achievements