{"id":1239,"date":"2014-12-03T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2014-12-03T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:52:57","slug":"smmt-appoints-new-president-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/smmt-appoints-new-president-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"SMMT appoints new president for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has appointed Gareth Jones, managing director of ebm-papst Automotive and Drives UK, as its next president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jones takes over from Tim Abbott, former BMW Group UK managing director, on 1 January. Abbott has recently taken up a post with BMW in South Africa but and now becomes SMMT deputy president. He was president at the SMMT for two years.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has more than 26 years&#8217; experience within the ebm-papst group, operating in the manufacturing supply chains of global industries including automotive, telecommunications, rail, consumer electronics, white goods and retail.<\/p>\n<p>Three new vice presidents have also been appointed to support Jones &#8211; Penny Randall, marketing director, Renault Trucks UK, Tony Walker, deputy managing director, Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK), James Wright, managing director, Nissan Motor (GB).<\/p>\n<p>They join previous vide presidents &#8211; Mark Ovenden, chairman and managing director, Ford of Britain, John Neill CBE, chairman and group chief executive, Unipart Group and Ralf Speth, CEO, Jaguar Land Rover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has appointed <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/smmt-appoints-new-president-2015\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-smmt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}