Biography | Jim Farley — Recruited from Lexus to the Glass House
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Biography | Jim Farley — Recruited from Lexus to the Glass House
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People treat Ford chiefs as lifers who never left Dearborn.
Farley arrived in November 2007 from Toyota.
Ford's official biography records the hire as group vice president after nearly two decades at Toyota Motor Sales.
Those years included the Lexus general-manager seat and the launch of Scion.
Alan Mulally, then Ford's chief executive, was the recruiter.
The building he joined was the Henry Ford II World Center at 1 American Road.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill finished the twelve-storey glass slab in 1956.
It served as world headquarters from that year until November 2025.
Locals called it the Glass House.
In 2025 Ford moved the honorific address to a new campus building known as the Hub and said the Glass House would be demolished.
This pin is the headquarters he entered, not the campus that replaced it.
A visitor looking from Michigan Avenue can still see the tower while it stands.
Treat it as a former workplace, not a current executive floor.
The 2007 job was marketing and sales, not the chief's chair.
He later added Canada, Mexico and South America, then Europe, then global markets.
The chair came on 1 October 2020 in this same building.
Do not collapse the hire and the succession into one story.
They are thirteen years apart.
Photo: Dave Parker, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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