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Richard E. Dauch is Co-Founder Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer of AAM and is also Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. He has been Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors since the Company began operations in March 1994. In October 1997 he was named Chairman of the Board of Directors. He was also President of AAM from March 1994 through December 2000.
Prior to March 1994 he spent 12 years at the Chrysler Corporation where he established the just-in-time materials management system and the three-shift manufacturing vehicle assembly process. He is a retired officer from the Chrysler Corporation. Mr. Dauch’s last position at Chrysler in 1991 was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing.
Mr. Dauch also served as Group Vice President of Volkswagen of America where he established the manufacturing facilities and organization for the successful launch of the first major automotive transplant in the United States. Mr. Dauch has more than 42 years of experience in the automotive industry.
Mr. Dauch was named the 1996 Worldwide Automotive Industry Leader of the Year by the Automotive Hall of Fame the 1997 Manufacturer of the Year by the Michigan Manufacturers’ Association and the 1999 Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News. In 2003 he received the Harvard Business School of Michigan Business Statesman Award the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Northwood University Outstanding Business Leader Award. In 2005 he received the CEO Legends Award from Automation Alley and in 2006 he received the Shien-Ming Wu Foundation Manufacturing Leadership Award.
Mr. Dauch is the a past Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers (N.A.M.) and currently serves on the Board of Directors of that organization. He has lectured extensively on the subject of manufacturing and authored the book Passion for Manufacturing which is distributed in colleges and universities globally and in several languages. | 