London, October 16, 2024, (Oilandgaspress) ––– With effect from 21 October 2024, Steve Marsh is appointed Executive Director, Vehicle Programmes, reporting to JLR Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Adrian Mardell. Steve is a highly regarded and experienced global leader and currently Director, Global Manufacturing Operations, JLR. In an automotive career of 36 years, Steve joined JLR in April 2022 from Nissan where he was SVP, Manufacturing and Supply Chain. Since joining JLR, Steve has overseen an intensive period of transformation across the business’s global manufacturing footprint as JLR readies for electric vehicle production.
Swarna Ramanathan is appointed Chief Strategy Officer, reporting to JLR CEO, Adrian Mardell. As Chief Strategy Officer, Swarna will lead JLR’s Strategy Creation, Innovation, Strategic Foresights, Alliances & Collaborations and Product & Customer Experience Strategy teams.
An MBA‑graduate and mechanical engineer, Swarna has 20 years’ growth strategy development and implementation experience, working across the automotive, consumer and energy sectors. Swarna joins JLR from McKinsey & Company where she is a Partner and leader in McKinsey’s Centre for Future Mobility.
With Swarna Ramanathan’s appointment, Andrea Debbane, who joined JLR’s Executive Leadership Team in August 2024, will continue in her role as Chief Sustainability Officer, relinquishing her interim responsibilities for Strategy, and reporting to JLR CEO, Adrian Mardell.
To ensure the effective implementation of its strategy, JLR also announces the appointment of John Beswick to the new role of Chief Transformation and Performance Officer, reporting to JLR CEO, Adrian Mardell.
John joins JLR from Great Ormond Street Hospital where he is Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this, John spent two decades at BT Group in transformational change and finance leadership roles, having started his career as a chartered engineer in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Both Swarna Ramanathan and John Beswick’s appointments take effect from 04 November 2024.
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