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`MAY 3, 2017WILLIAM CLAY FORD JR.
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`EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, FORD MOTOR COMPANY
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`As Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Company, William Clay Ford Jr. is leading the company that put the world
`on wheels into the 21st century. He joined the Board of Directors in 1988 and has been its chairman since January
`1999. Through the years, his vision for the company has remained unchanged.
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`“I believe the purpose of a company is to make people’s lives better,” he says. “That is how we became great in
`the past and it is how we will become even greater in the future.
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`Under Bill Ford’s leadership Ford Motor Company was named the Best Global Green Brand among all
`companies in the world in 2014, and one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the seventh year in a row in
`2016.
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`“The ongoing success of Ford Motor Company is my life’s work,” he says.  “Nothing is more important to me than
`our reputation as a family company that people trust to do the right thing.”
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`After joining the company in 1979 as a product planning analyst, he held positions in manufacturing, sales,
`marketing, product development and finance. During the 1982 Ford-United Auto Workers labor talks, which
`launched the employee involvement movement that revolutionized the industry, he served on the company’s
`National Bargaining Team. In 1983 he began a 12-month course of study as an Alfred P. Sloan fellow at the
`Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected chairman and managing director of Ford Switzerland in
`1987.
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`As head of Business Strategy for the Ford Automotive Group in 1990, he helped develop guidelines for
`establishing low-volume manufacturing plants in emerging markets. After being appointed general manager of
`Climate Control Division in 1992, he led a profit turnaround and a major improvement in product quality. He also
`established the company’s first wildlife habitat at a plant location and the first automotive plant in the world to
`use 25 percent post-consumer materials in all of its plastic parts. While he was general manager the division
`won the President’s Commission on Environmental Quality Award.
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`Bill Ford was elected a company vice president and head of the company’s Commercial Truck Vehicle Center in
`1994. He left that position in order to assume the chairmanship of the Board of Directors’ Finance Committee in
`1995. In addition to his duties as chairman, he served as chief executive officer of the company from October
`2001 to September 2006, when he was named executive chairman. As CEO, he improved quality, lowered costs
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`and delivered exciting new products. During his time in that position he took the company from a $5.5 billion
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`loss in 2001 to three straight years of profitability.
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`A lifelong environmentalist, Bill Ford is committed to developing products that benefit customers and society.
`Under his leadership, in 2000 Ford Motor Company published its first corporate citizenship report outlining the
`economic, environmental and social impact of company products and operations around the world. In 2004,
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`the company completed the world’s largest brownfield reclamation project, the restoration of its Ford Rouge
`Center in metropolitan Detroit. He also championed the Escape Hybrid, the world’s first hybrid-electric sport
`utility vehicle.
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`“During the last industry downturn, Ford invested heavily in fuel economy and technology at a time when many
`others were pulling back,” he says. “It absolutely was the right thing to do.”
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`Looking to the future, in 2011 he began outlining the company’s vision of what sustainable transportation will
`look like in the years ahead, as well as the steps it will take to get there. That future includes vehicles that
`communicate with each other and the world around them to make driving safer, ease traffic congestion and
`sustain the environment. As the next step in these efforts, in 2015 the company announced Ford Smart Mobility,
`its plan to deliver advances in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and data
`and analytics.
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`“My great-grandfather helped put the world on wheels so everyone could enjoy the benefits of mobility,” he says.
`“Our vision is to expand on that thinking, using advanced technology and new business models so that personal
`mobility remains viable in a crowded world.”
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`Bill Ford’s charitable, volunteer and business efforts are highlighted by his commitment to the city of Detroit. As
`vice chairman of the Detroit Lions professional football team, he led efforts to build a new, environmentally-
`friendly stadium in Detroit that was the site of Super Bowl XL. Through Detroit Lions Charities, he helped
`develop the Detroit Police Athletic League youth football program into one of the largest in the country.
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`Under his leadership the company’s philanthropic arm, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services,
`focused its efforts on helping communities, supporting education and improving safety through driving skills
`training. In 2005 he launched the Ford Volunteer Corps to enhance the efforts of employee volunteers serving
`communities around the world. In its first ten years, Ford 30,000 volunteers worked on more than 9,000
`projects in 40 countries.
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`In 2015, he championed the 30 Under Thirty program to develop the next generation of Ford philanthropic
`leaders and the Bill Ford Better World Challenge, which provides grant funding for projects that engage
`employees and local nonprofits in addressing needs that will improve community life and make people’s lives
`better.
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`Bill Ford is Chairman of the Board of the Detroit Economic Club, a member of the Board of Trustees of The
`Henry Ford and the Henry Ford Health System, and is Chairman of the New Michigan Initiative of Business
`Leaders for Michigan. He also served on the Board of Directors of eBay Inc. from 2005 to 2015. He was inducted
`into the Irish America Hall of Fame in 2011. He also is a founding partner of Fontinalis Partners, LLC, a Michigan-
`based investment firm that acts as a strategic operating partner to transportation infrastructure technology
`companies. 
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`In recognition of his commitment to education and devotion to the Detroit community, in 2015 he was given the
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`Ambassador for Humanity Award by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
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`Bill Ford was born in Detroit in May 1957. He is an avid fly fisherman and car enthusiast, enjoys playing hockey
`and tennis, and is a martial arts black belt.
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`He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University and a master of science degree in management
`from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also has been awarded an honorary doctor of
`environmental sciences and engineering degree from Koc University, an honorary doctor of laws degree from the
`University of Michigan, an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Bradley University and an honorary
`doctorate of economic science from University College Cork and the National University of Ireland.
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