Martin Whitmarsh
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Martin Whitmarsh (born April 29, 1958) is the CEO of the McLaren Formula One team.
More accurately, he is the CEO of McLaren Racing, a subsidiary company of the McLaren Group. Ron Dennis, the Group's Chairman and CEO is the Team Principal.
He is also the COO of McLaren Group, the holding company that controls McLaren Racing.
[edit] Career
Whitmarsh graduated from university with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980, and started work at British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) as a structural analysis engineer at its Hamble-le-Rice facility.[1] He was promoted to an advanced composite structures research and development role and transferred to BAe's Weybridge facility. In 1988 he was promoted to the rank of Manufacturing Director and was put in charge of Hawk and Harrier airframe production.[2] He left to join McLaren as Head of Operations in 1989.[3]
In 1997, Whitmarsh was promoted to Managing Director, where he was responsible for managing the F1 operation and its partners and sponsors. This allowed Team Principal Ron Dennis to concentrate on other aspects of the McLaren Group. In April 2004, he was again promoted, this time to the position of CEO of the company's F1 operation.
[edit] References
- ^ The team: Management Biographies. www.mclaren.com. McLaren. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ People: Martin Whitmarsh. www.grandprix.com publisher = The Motorsport Company. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- ^ Morrison, Murdo. "Payback time; Farnborough may lag Paris in air show rankings, but the backing of the US defence giants and three new sector-specific features could give this year's event an edge", Flight International, Reed Business Information, 2004-06-15, p. 36. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
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