23.05.2008

New CEO for JCB

JCB has announced today that its chief operating officer Mathew Taylor will take over from long serving chief executive John Patterson on June 1st.

Patterson, 58 will continue as a main board director of JCB as well as retaining his role as chairman and CEO of JCB Inc, the company’s business in Savannah, Georgia, USA.
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John Patterson

Taylor, 48, joined JCB in April 2006 as managing director of JCB Sales and in January last year became group chief operating officer.

JCB group chairman Sir Anthony Bamford said: “John Patterson has led the JCB Group through one of the most successful periods in our history and I’m pleased that he will now focus his attention on our American business. The JCB Group is facing some difficult challenges as we enter a period of economic uncertainty but I look forward to the next phase of our growth and development and these changes will help drive that.”

Patterson joined JCB in 1971 as a field service engineer and rose through the company’s ranks to become chief executive in 1998. He was promoted to managing director and CEO in 2004, since when JCB’s business has doubled, with new manufacturing facilities brought on line in the USA, Brazil, India, China and Germany.
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Mathew Taylor

After leaving the Royal Navy in 1985, Taylor joined Ford Motor, rising to become managing director of Ford of Spain and later vice-president of marketing and sales in Australia. He returned to the UK, when Ford bought Land Rover in 2000, and became sales and marketing director. He was made managing director of Land Rover in 2003, a position he held until he joined JCB in 2006.