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Name: Byron Foster
Title: Vice President and General Manager – North American Operations, Automotive Experience
Company: Johnson Controls
Presentation: Not Available
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Byron Foster serves as vice president and general manager, North American Operations. In this role, he is responsible for leading the company’s Automotive Experience manufacturing operations for the North American region, which includes manufacturing strategy, quality, supply chain management and continuous improvement initiatives.
Mr. Foster most recently served as group vice president, Global Product Centers, providing strategic product leadership for the company’s seating and interiors businesses worldwide. Prior to that, he was responsible for North American interiors and the Hyundai/Kia Customer Business Unit. Other positions he has held with Johnson Controls include director of Strategic Planning, and various leadership positions in the customer business units and operations. He also led the company’s North American Power Solutions business. He joined Johnson Controls in 1997.
Prior to joining Johnson Controls, Mr. Foster was a senior associate with Booz Allen and Hamilton, where he worked with Fortune 500 companies on business strategy, manufacturing efficiency and growth strategies.
Mr. Foster earned a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Michigan, and a master’s of management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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