Andrew Charles Palmer CMG FIMechE (born 30 June 1963) is an English engineer and businessman. He is founder and CEO of Palmer Automotive Ltd and serves as Chairman of Optare Ltd, as well as non-Executive Director of Ashok Leyland Ltd and SBD Ltd."Ashok Leyland appoints Andrew Palmer as non-executive chairman of British arm Optare Plc". Times of India. 18 July 2020. Retrieved 2020.</ref> He was president and CEO of Aston Martin from 2014 to 2020. In 2017, he was appointed chairman of the productivity and skills commission of the new West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). Palmer was previously the chief planning officer, executive vice-president and member of the executive committee of Nissan Motor Company. Reporting directly to Nissan's president and CEO, Carlos Ghosn, Palmer shared the chief operating officer role with two Nissan executives. Palmer was also chairman of Infiniti, and president of Nissan Motor Light Truck Co, a member of the board of directors of Nissan (China) Investment Company (NCIC), and of Nissan's joint ventures with India's Ashok Leyland. He has been called an "engineer-turned-marketing guru [with a] raw instinct."
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1 June 1963 (age 62) Stratford-upon-Avon, England
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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