DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday reported Main Advertising Officer Suzy Deering, who joined the automaker in early 2021 from eBay, is leaving the enterprise at the conclusion of the 7 days.
The automaker did not give a explanation for her departure.
“We thank Suzy for her contributions to Ford and would like her all the greatest in the long run,” Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, reported in a assertion.
Deering, in a submit on LinkedIn, reported she nonetheless thinks in the enterprise’s mission and eyesight.
“I’ve designed the final decision that it is time for me to shift on and allow the crew fly,” she wrote. “My regard for the crew and what’s forward as Ford evolves and lands the new brand name positioning and the new brand name design and style technique will elevate the brand name to larger heights… The change to concentrating on the consumer and aligning all areas of the enterprise to exceed their anticipations isn’t quick but I imagine in what’s probable and what’s forward.
 
“While I could not be in ‘the creating’ I will be rooting for Ford and smiling at what arrives to everyday living.”
Ford reported it would announce her successor afterwards.
Deering’s appointment was declared approximately a thirty day period following Jim Farley took more than as Ford CEO in Oct 2020, a sign the enterprise required to attain outside the industry and bolster its tech chops in opposition to the likes of Tesla and other challengers.
Ford described Deering at the time as “attained at utilizing technological know-how, information and analytics to foresee consumer demands and satisfy them with human-centered solutions and companies.”
Underneath her check out, the automaker introduced important solutions together with the Bronco, F-150 Lightning and Maverick.
Deering explained to Automotive Information in late 2021 that the enterprise hoped the Maverick compact pickup could become its next iconic product.
“It has the complete probable to be the amount of an F-150 or the amount of a Mustang mainly because it is so linked in this sort of a distinctive way to the consumer,” she reported. “When we have finished effectively, we make autos and solutions that buyers turn into very passionate about. Maverick 100 % life up to that. I consider it is on that route.”
Deering was an Automotive News All Star in 2021. She and Ford’s main communications officer, Mark Truby, were being identified for utilizing a number of information gatherings to make the enterprise substantial publicity, this sort of as when the F-150’s on-board generator aided Texans offer with energy outages and when President Joe Biden take a look at drove a however-to-be-exposed F-150 Lightning all through a check out to Michigan.