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Timothy Leuliette is chairman and CEO of Leuliette Partners LLC, a financial advisory and investment firm he founded in January 2008. He also serves as president and CEO of Dura Corporation.
Prior to forming Leuliette Partners, Mr. Leuliette was co-chairman and co-chief executive officer of Asahi Tec Corporation and chairman and chief executive officer of its subsidiary Metaldyne Corporation, a company he co-founded in 2000 and sold to Asahi Tec in 2007. In these roles, he provided strategic and operational leadership to the company with annual revenues of approximately $3 billion and
more than 10,000 employees at 55 facilities in 15 countries around the world. He is the first American to hold a CEO position in a large publicly held Japanese company.
Mr. Leuliette was formerly president and chief operating officer of Penske Corporation, a closely held diversified transportation services company with annual revenues exceeding $10 billion and more than 33,000 employees at over 200 facilities worldwide. Prior to joining Penske Corporation, Mr. Leuliette was president and chief executive officer of the $5 billion ITT Automotive Group and senior vice president of ITT Industries Inc. In this role, he was responsible for consolidating over a decade of acquisitions and establishing core businesses, which resulted in building ITT Automotive into a large, profitable, global company.
Before joining ITT, Mr. Leuliette served as president and chief executive officer of Siemens Automotive L.P and was a member of the Siemens Automotive Managing Board as well as a corporate vice president of Siemens AG. He was the first non-German to hold this level of authority in the 143-year history of the German Electrical and Electronics Company.
Mr. Leuliette has been called upon to work in troubled situations as a member of a board of directors for companies facing distress, such as Libby Owens Ford after its acquisition by Pilkington and Collins & Aikman where he served as chairman of the board’s restructuring committee and identified the restructuring firm that implemented the plan of reorganization.
Prior to his Siemens affiliation, Mr. Leuliette worked for eight years at Allied Signal in a number of managerial positions. Prior to Allied Signal, he held various planning and engineering positions at American Motors and Ford Motor Company.
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