Biography | Jim Farley — First Morning as Ford Chief at the Glass House
· 2020-10
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Biography | Jim Farley — First Morning as Ford Chief at the Glass House
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People date a Ford chief executive from the press release.
The company announced the succession on 4 August 2020, on a media call with Executive Chairman Bill Ford and outgoing chief Jim Hackett.
The title changed on 1 October 2020.
Ford's shareholder release named Farley president and chief executive and a member of the board.
Hackett retired from the role that day and stayed on as an adviser into the following spring.
Farley had been chief operating officer since February 2020.
He had joined the company in November 2007, later run Ford of Europe, then global markets, then New Businesses, Technology and Strategy.
The office on that October morning was still the Glass House at 1 American Road.
Ground had not yet been broken in finished form for the Hub that now holds headquarters.
Ford opened that new building on 16 November 2025 and began emptying the 1956 tower.
This pin is the first day the title matched the old headquarters.
It is not a guide to a current private office.
Stand at the public edge of the site and read the tower as a closed chapter.
The announcement in August and the first morning in October are one succession, recorded here on the day the title took effect.
Photo: Dave Parker, CC BY 3.0 (building); Bill Cramer, CC BY-SA 4.0 (portrait), via Wikimedia Commons
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