Ford CEO Replaces Lincoln Head in First Personnel Moves
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Mark Fields, Ford Motor Co.’s chief executive officer, named a new head of its Lincoln line, replacing Jim Farley, the former Lexus executive who remains the company’s global marketing chief.
In his first personnel moves since becoming CEO July 1, Fields appointed Kumar Galhotra president of Lincoln effective Sept. 1. Galhotra, currently Ford’s vice president of engineering, takes up the task from Farley to turn around Lincoln, where sales have fallen 65 percent from a 1990 peak.