Christian Business Association of the Palm Beaches Breakfast

2000 PGA Boulevard,Palm Beach Gardens FL 33408

13 May, 2022

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Christian Business Association of the Palm Beaches Breakfast with Guest Speaker - Timothy D. Leuliette Timothy D. Leuliette is a private investor and active in various community and non-profit activities, after having retired from a 40 year career in industrial turn-arounds, start-ups, private equity and serving as a chairman of a Federal Reserve Bank Branch. Current activities include serving as a director on the boards of both private and public companies, including Autobrain LLC, and serving as lead independent director for NYSE traded Goodrich Petroleum. He also serves as the Chairman of the YMCA of the Palm Beaches, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Palm Beach Atlantic University, a private Christian university. Mr. Leuliette retired as president and chief executive officer of the Fortune 500 Visteon Corporation, in June of 2015. He assumed this role in August of 2012, when he was asked to lead a management change at the company which reshaped the enterprise from a troubled global family of businesses and joint ventures with a combined revenue of $16 billion with over 65,000 employees in 26 countries, to a profitable, focused, leading automotive electronics company creating over $4 billion in shareholder value. Upon assuming his role at Visteon, Mr. Leuliette left FINNEA Group, a firm he had co-founded and where he was a senior managing director. FINNEA Group was an investment banking, financial advisory and merchant banking firm which focused on industrial, energy, healthcare and real estate development sectors. left the FINNEA Group’s predecessor firm to serve as chairman, president & CEO of Dura Automotive LLC, for two years to oversee its emergence from bankruptcy, its financial and operational restructuring and its successful sale. Dura had annual revenues of $1.7 Billion (USD), operated in 16 countries and employed 9,000 people. Prior to that, Mr. Leuliette was co CEO of Asahi Tec Corporation and chairman and CEO of its subsidiary Metaldyne Corporation, a company he co-founded in 2000 with the purchase and consolidation of five manufacturing companies. Metaldyne was sold to Japanese based Asahi Tec in January of 2007. Mr. Leuliette became the first American to hold a CEO position in a large publicly held Japanese company. Mr. Leuliette was formerly president and chief operating officer of Penske Corporation, a closely-held diversified transportation services company with annual revenues exceeding $10 billion (USD) and more than 33,000 employees at over 200 facilities worldwide. Prior to joining Penske Corporation, Mr. Leuliette was president and chief executive officer of the $5 billion (USD) ITT Automotive Group, and senior vice president of ITT Industries Inc. In this role, he was responsible for consolidating over a decade of acquisitions and establishing core businesses which resulted in building ITT Automotive into a profitable, global company. Before joining ITT, Mr. Leuliette served as president and chief executive officer of Siemens Automotive L.P and was a member of the Siemens Automotive Managing Board and a corporate vice president of Siemens AG. He was the first non-German to hold this level of authority in the 143- year history of the German electrical and electronics company. Mr. Leuliette holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.