Dennis A. Tosh

Director, Global Trading & Automotive Risk Management

Ford, USA

Industry:
Automotive OEM
Annual turnover:
€91bn approx (based on 4Q earnings release, 2009)
Treasury staff:
200+ world-wide
Treasury structure:
Centralised where not prohibited by local regulations
TMS:
Yes – Wall Street Systems, GTM, REVAL
Cross-border pooling:
Yes

Speaker profile

Dennis is Director of Global Trading and Automotive Risk Management at Ford Motor Company.  He is responsible, on a global basis, for the investment of corporate cash, foreign exchange trading, interest rate hedging, commodities hedging, automotive risk management, and unsecured funding. He is a 36-year veteran of Ford and holds a MBA in international finance from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a B.A. in economics, with distinction, from the University of Michigan's honors college.

Corporate profile

Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Michigan and manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 159,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford, Lincoln and Mercury, production of which has been announced by the company to be ending in the fourth quarter of 2010. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company.