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Dearborn, MI-based Ford has Promoted Marcy Klevorn as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Ford is a global company based in Dearborn, Michigan. The company designs, manufactures, markets and services a full line of Ford cars, trucks, SUVs, electrified vehicles and Lincoln luxury vehicles, provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company and is pursuing leadership positions in electrification, autonomous vehicles and mobility solutions. Ford employs approximately 200,000 people worldwide. For more information regarding Ford, its products and Ford Motor Credit Company.
About the Person
Marcy Klevorn is vice president and Chief Information Officer (CIO) effective Jan. 1, 2015. In this new role, she will oversee the information technology services for all of the company’s operations globally. Klevorn also has been elected a corporate officer. She will report to Ford President and CEO Mark Fields. Previously, Klevorn served as Director, Office of the CIO, a position she was appointed to in September 2013. In this role, she was responsible for managing Ford’s global IT business applications, architecture, data centers, web-hosting requirements, engineering and infrastructure services. Klevorn has spent her entire career in IT with Ford, serving in a variety of positions in The Americas, Ford of Europe and Ford Credit. She began her career at Ford in 1983 in Telecommunications Services and worked at various positions within Ford IT and Ford Credit through August 2003. In late 2003, as consulting program manager for the purchasing business systems initiative eVEREST, Klevorn led the analysis and decision to migrate back to legacy systems. In 2005, she was appointed Product Lifecycle Management global director and implemented process changes in data and information management across product creation. In 2006, as Enterprise Defragmentation director, Klevorn led the strategy and implementation of infrastructure defragmentation, data center consolidation and overall systems management at Ford. From May 2006 through September 2011, she led Ford`s IT Infrastructure organization. From September 2011 through September 2013, Klevorn served as IT Director for Ford of Europe, and was a member of the Ford of Europe Operating Committee (EOC). Klevorn, born in October 1959, earned a bachelor`s degree in business from the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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