The author | Nie Yiyao
The source | Auto Grand view
On the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, the lovely Chinese women's football girls presented an exciting and good news to the people of the whole country. In the final of the Women's Asian Cup on the evening of February 6, the Chinese women's football team lived up to expectations and won the Asian Cup championship with a 3:2 victory over the South Korean team.
Such a popular opening has made the "sonorous roses" unanimously praised by the people of the whole country, and also brought a good color to the next New Year's work in all walks of life, which is quite boosting morale.
In fact, women have never lost to men, in modern society, women's ability and brilliance, in all walks of life more and more to play and highlight. Sports like football, which have always been secretly regarded as "men's games", the Chinese women's football team has performed very well, dumping the Chinese men's football team for 18,000 miles.
The cars that have always been dominated by men have also appeared more and more female figures, and there are many well-known female automobile practitioners in the Chinese and foreign automobile circles, and some are even the heads of multinational car companies. Today we will take stock of some of the famous "sonorous roses" in the Chinese and foreign automobile circles.
Mary Barra
Chairman and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of General Motors Corporation
Mary Bora's Battle is thunderous in chinese and foreign automotive circles, and she is the first female leader in the Detroit Centennial Automobile Group. It is also the only female leader in the global automotive group at present.
Born in 1962, the American girl has been working for GM since 1980 as a student at the General Motors Academy (now Kettering University) and entered the General Motors internship.
In January 2014, Marie Bora began serving as CEO of General Motors. In January 2016, Mary Bora became Chairman and CEO of General Motors, overseeing the entire GM.
The automotive industry presented Mary Bora with the title of "Iron Lady", praising her wisdom, courage and perseverance. Since taking the helm of GM's century-old giant ship, Mary Bora has made some drastic changes that have helped General Motors "slim down", cutting off GM's unprofitable business lines in various regions of the world and focusing instead on more promising and profitable investments.
Today, the "Iron Lady" has led GM from the glory of fuel vehicles to a more promising future of electric vehicles, promising to bring 30 new electric vehicles to the market by 2025.
Wang Fengying
General Manager of Great Wall Motor Company
After talking about the "Iron Lady" of foreign car companies, talk about the "female president" of domestic car companies. She is Wang Fengying, general manager of Great Wall Motor Company.
Wang Fengying graduated from Tianjin Institute of Finance and Economics in 1991 and joined Great Wall Motors, which was just starting out at that time. Two years later, he was promoted to general manager of sales at Great Wall Motors, responsible for the sales business of Great Wall Motors. In 2003, with excellent business ability, Wang Fengying was promoted to general manager of Great Wall Motor, becoming the only female leader among domestic car companies.
In the past 30 years since Wang Fengying and Wei Jianjun fought side by side, Great Wall Motors has developed rapidly, from a small workshop to a domestic independent brand head car company, and Wang Fengying can top half of the sky. In November 2021, Wang Fengying was selected as "China's Most Influential Business Women in 2021" with the first name, before Dong Mingzhu.
Just this past January, Great Wall Motor issued a change of director announcement, saying that Wang Fengying needed to apply for resignation as an executive director, vice chairman and member of the Strategy and Sustainability Committee of Great Wall Motor Company due to work needs, and continue to serve as general manager.
Stepping down from these positions may be a move by Wang Fengying, as the "first generation" automaker of Great Wall Motors, to continuously broaden and give up a bigger stage for the successors of Great Wall Motors. I have to say that this is a real hero.
Hildegard Wortmann
Member of the Marketing and Sales Management Committee of Audi AG
Hildegard Waterman's rise to fame did not originate with Audi, but from BMW.
In 1998, Hildegard Waterman moved from Unilever to BMW as Senior Vice President of Product Management and later as Senior Vice President of BMW Brand, responsible for BMW Brand Development and Sales in Asia Pacific.
During his 20 years at BMW, Hildegard Waterman demonstrated strong management skills and mobility. She experienced the return of the MINI brand in 2001 and has also held several bmw product management positions. She was also named a "Pioneering Woman" by Automotive News Europe in 2016.
Perhaps this is the reason why Hildegard Waterman was favored by Audi CEO Bram Schott, in July 2019, Hildegard Waterman officially joined Audi and became a strong leader in the management team of Audi CEO Bram Schott.
Zheng Jie (now known as Zheng Jie)
Former Chief Operating Officer of FCA Group China, former President of GAC FCA Sales Company
Although it has left the car circle and has been renamed Zheng Jie, Zheng Jie, the former chief operating officer of FCA Group China and the former president of GAC FCA Sales Company, is still a legend in the car circle.
Zheng Jie was once a female boss of the car circle with a legendary experience. She was a college entrance examination winner, a reporter for China Daily, and the first Chinese to enter the top management of a major automotive group in the world.
Prior to joining Chrysler China in 2008, Zheng held important positions in a number of multinational companies such as Honeywell and General Motors. In 2015, Zheng Jie began as the general manager of GAC FCA Sales Company, and then joined the executive committee of FCA Group in 2017 and was appointed chief operating officer of FCA Group China until his departure in March 2019.
Zheng Jie led the domestic production of the Jeep brand under the FCA Group, and established a joint venture with the GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE Group to complete the integration of the sales channels of the Jeep brand domestic car and imported car. During his tenure, Jeep brand sales have achieved good growth.
Mao Jingbo, President of Lincoln Asia Pacific and China
On June 7, 2018, Lincoln announced the appointment of Mao Jingbo as President of Lincoln Asia Pacific and China, effective July 16 of the same year. Under the operation of Mao Jingbo, Lincoln China has gradually stepped out of the predicament along the "three major insistences" of "adhering to the positioning of luxury brands, adhering to the experience of Lincoln's Way, and adhering to the management of value marketing", and actively accelerating the process of Lincoln localization. In 2020, Lincoln became one of the fastest growing brands in China's luxury car market, and was hailed by the automotive industry media as the "Lincoln phenomenon"
Mao graduated from the School of International Relations in 1990 with a degree in International Journalism, received a graduate degree in International Journalism from the University of Hawaii in 1995, and an EMBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 2004.
Prior to joining Lincoln, Mao held important positions at Mercedes-Benz for a long time. On May 1, 2016, Mao Jingbo became the Executive Vice President of Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales Service Co., Ltd., responsible for the sales, marketing, branding and operation of AMG, smart, V-Class and Vito brands.
Prior to joining Mercedes-Benz China, Mao Jingbo served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Beijing Company, a world-renowned communication and public relations consulting firm, and provided professional brand consulting services for many industry leaders such as Audi, Michelin and BP. Prior to that, Mao Jingbo worked as a senior reporter for China Daily, an authoritative English-language media outlet in China.
Meihong Yang, Vice President of Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility at Ford China
As Yang Meihong, who has more than 20 years of experience in automobile public relations, was once praised by the automobile media as one of the "five golden flowers" who served as a public relations manager for global automobile companies in China in the early 1990s.
In June 2021, Yang Meihong was appointed as vice president of communications and corporate social responsibility for Ford China, and Ford China said that Yang Meihong will lead the team to formulate more strategic communication strategies and plans, establish full-time and all-round relationships with stakeholders, further enhance Ford's corporate image, brand reputation and employee cohesion, and promote the sustainable and high-quality development of Ford China's business.
After graduating from university, Yang Meihong worked for the former National Sports Commission, and participated in the work of the Organizing Committee of the 11th Asian Games in 1990 and the Bidding Committee of the 2000 Beijing Olympic Games. He also served as the torchbearer for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
From 1993 to April 2001, Ms. Yang Meihong worked for the Chinese automotive industry, gaining extensive experience in public relations, sales, after-sales service, parts ordering, and negotiation with joint ventures.
Meihong Yang was the Public Relations and Community Relations Manager for Ford China from 1996 to 2001. Since 2010, she has been appointed Vice President of Volkswagen China in charge of Corporate Social Responsibility. Since then, from January 2015 to May 2021, he has served as Vice President of Public Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility at BMW Brilliance.
Suzuki Asako
Former General Manager of Dongfeng Honda Motor Co., Ltd
In the two years from 2014 to 2016, Dongfeng Honda Motor Co., Ltd. entered the Suzuki Mazi era. This professional woman who joined Honda in 1987 has accumulated extensive experience in sales, operation management and finance after a long period of work abroad (many times sent to Thailand, Malaysia, Oceania, Vietnam and other places).
At the beginning of April 2014, with excellent corporate management skills, Asako Suzuki became the general manager of Dongfeng Honda Motor Co., Ltd. During his tenure, Dongfeng Honda's sales increased significantly.
In April 2016, Asako Suzuki stepped down as General Manager of Dongfeng Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and was promoted to Executive Director of Honda, and became the Director of Sales Planning of Honda Japan Headquarters.
In fact, there have always been many well-known "sonorous roses" in the Chinese and foreign automotive circles, such as Annette Winkler, who was the CEO of the Smart brand, Linda Jackson, who was the CEO of the Citroen brand, and Mouna Sepehri, who served as the secretary general of Renault in the Ghosn era, and so on.
Annette Winkler
Linda Jackson
There are also many female executives who are active in the domestic automotive circle and are more well known by the domestic industry and consumers, such as Sun Wei, vice president of corporate affairs of BMW Group in Greater China, Mei Xiaoqun, president and CEO of Lingyue Digital Information Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMW, and so on.
Wei Sun, Vice President of Corporate Affairs for greater China at the BMW Group
Mei Xiaoqun, President and CEO of Lingyue Digital Information Technology Co., Ltd
They not only work with men to bravely move forward in the automotive workplace and shopping malls, but also experience hundreds of battles, product sales, brand management, business management and other aspects, generously display personal talents and creativity, but also let us appreciate the unique charm of one "sonorous rose" after another.
Hats off to Chinese women's soccer! A tribute to the hard-working and excellent women in the automotive industry.
(Note: The picture in this article comes from the network)