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F. Timothy Richards, 53, is vice president, Electronics Group. He is also a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company's top policy-making group.
Richards began his automotive career with General Motors Corp., in 1972, as a cooperative education student at the former Packard Electric Division in Warren, Ohio. While at Packard, Richards was a product engineer and a supervisor of manufacturing/quality control.
In 1982, Richards transferred to GM's Central Office Financial Staff in Detroit, where he assisted executive leadership in a number of assignments over a five-year span. Those included responsibilities with GM's Asia Pacific and Automotive Components Group leadership teams.
Richards then transferred to Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems where, over a five-year period, he held a number of positions, including manufacturing superintendent, marketing manager, and assistant comptroller. In 1993, Richards was appointed finance director for General Motors' North American Operations engineering, and he was later named executive assistant to the GM chief executive officer and president.
Richards returned to Delphi Thermal in 1995 as the division's director of sales and marketing. He was later named the division's European managing director. His most recent assignment there was global business line executive for Climate Control and Powertrain Cooling Systems. On May 1, 2002, he was named executive director of business lines for Delphi Energy & Chassis Systems. He was named vice president, sales & marketing effective January 1, 2004.
Richards has earned a bachelor of electrical engineering degree from Kettering University and he was a GM Fellow at the University of Michigan where he earned an MBA degree. | 