McLaren Automotive has been without a CEO since October 2021.
That situation changes on July 1 when Michael Leiters takes over as CEO of the supercar division, McLaren Group announced on Wednesday.
Leiters, 50, has an engineering background and in his last role served as chief technology officer at Ferrari, a role he stepped down from last December. Prior to joining Ferrari, he was a senior engineer at Porsche, where he oversaw a lot of the automaker's early work with hybrid technology.McLaren Automotive has a 3,000-strong workforce spanning its global operations, including the headquarters at main plant in Woking, U.K., and the carbon-fiber production facility in Sheffield, U.K.
McLaren Automotive is the most lucrative arm of McLaren Group, which also includes the McLaren Formula One team. However, the division was hit particularly hard by the pandemic and is yet to fully recover. It had to shed workers, and its McLaren Group parent had to
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