OAKVILLE,
Ontario, March 9 (Reuters) – Ford Motor Company of Canada on Friday named Alain
Batty its new chief executive and president, effective April 2.
Batty, 49, most recently president of Ford in Russia and the Commonwealth of
Independent States, replaces Bobbie Gaunt, who retired at the end of last year.
Batty has worked for Ford 24 years.

He began his career as a general sales manager in France after earning a bachelor’s
degree in administration at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montreal
and also worked in Spain, Belgium, Portugal, and Luxembourg.

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Batty then led Ford Russia in setting up commercial and manufacturing operations
there, including the launch of a $150 million Ford Focus assembly plant outside
St. Petersburg that is slated to assemble its first vehicles in October.

(C) Reuters Limited 2001.

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