Ford Motor : Marcy Klevorn

Marcy Klevorn is group vice president, Information Technology (IT) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) effective Jan. 1, 2017. In this role, she oversees the information technology services for all of Ford Motor Company's operations globally.

Previously, Klevorn was vice president, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, a position to which she was named to in January 2015 when she also was elected a Ford Motor Company officer.

Klevorn has spent her entire Ford career in IT, serving in a variety of positions in The Americas, Ford of Europe and Ford Credit.

She started at Ford in 1983 in Telecommunications Services and worked at various positions within Ford IT and Ford Credit through 2004. 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). She then was named Director, Office of the CIO, responsible for managing Ford's global IT business applications, architecture, data centers, web-hosting requirements, engineering and infrastructure services.

Klevorn, born in 1959, earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan.