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Article: Rehiring Gilmour is right move.(Allan Gilmour returns to Ford Motor Co. as chief financial officer)(Brief Article)
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- Automotive News
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- May 20, 2002
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Give Bill Ford credit.
Bringing Allan Gilmour back to Ford Motor Co. as CFO is the bold stroke the company needs to get its financial house in order. It's the same type of expansive thinking that prompted General Motors to hire 70-year-old Bob Lutz as product czar.
Gilmour, who will be 68 next month, retired from Ford Motor as vice chairman in 1994. He is well known and respected on Wall Street as a back-to-basics thinker who can put a fresh, critical eye on Ford's finances - even if only for a short while until the company is turned around.
He started with the company in 1960 as an analyst on the finance staff and held most of the key ...