Item 4A. Information About Our Executive Officers.

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Item 4A. Information About Our Executive Officers.

Our executive officers are as follows, along with each executive officer’s position and age at February 1, 2025:


Name	Position	Position Held Since	Age
William Clay Ford, Jr. (a)	Executive Chair and Chair of the Board	September 2006	67
James D. Farley, Jr. (b)	President and Chief Executive Officer	October 2020	62
John Lawler (c)	Vice Chair and Chief Financial Officer	October 2020	58
Ashwani (“Kumar”) Galhotra	Chief Operating Officer	October 2023	59
Michael Amend	Chief Enterprise Technology Officer	September 2021	47
Steven P. Croley	Chief Policy Officer and General Counsel	July 2021	59
J. Doug Field	Chief EV, Digital, and Design Officer	October 2023	59
Andrew Frick	President, Ford Blue and Ford Customer Service Division	October 2023	51
Marin Gjaja	Chief Operating Officer, Ford Model e	September 2023	55
Jennifer Waldo	Chief People and Employee Experience Officer	May 2022	48
Shengpo (“Sam”) Wu	President and Chief Executive Officer, Ford of China	March 2023	58
Mark Kosman	Chief Accounting Officer	February 2024	59

(a)Also a Director, Chair of the Office of the Chair and Chief Executive, Chair of the Finance Committee, and a member of the Sustainability, Innovation and Policy Committee of the Board of Directors. Mr. Ford’s daughter, Alexandra Ford English, is a member of the Board of Directors.

(b)Also a Director and member of the Office of the Chair and Chief Executive.

(c)Mr. Lawler has held the position of Chief Financial Officer since October 2020. He received the additional title of Vice Chair in June 2024.

Except as noted below, each of the officers listed above has been employed by Ford or its subsidiaries in one or more capacities during the past five years.

Prior to joining Ford:

Michael Amend was President, Online, at Lowe’s from 2018 to 2021. From 2015 to 2018, Mr. Amend served as Executive Vice President, Omnichannel, at JCPenney.
Steven Croley was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Latham & Watkins from 2017 to 2021. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Croley served as General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Energy.
J. Doug Field was Vice President, Special Projects Group, at Apple from 2018 to 2021. From 2013 to 2018, Mr. Field served as Tesla’s Senior Vice President of Engineering.
Marin Gjaja was Senior Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group (“BCG”). He had been at BCG since 1996.
Jennifer Waldo was Vice President, People Business Partners at Apple from 2019 to 2022. From 2015 to 2019, Ms. Waldo was Chief Human Resources Officer at GE Digital.
Shengpo “Sam” Wu was Executive Vice President and President, Whirlpool Asia from 2019 until he retired from that position in 2022. He served in an advisory role and as the Vice-Chairman of Whirlpool China Co., Ltd. from 2022 to 2023. Mr. Wu joined Whirlpool Corporation in 2017 as President, Whirlpool Asia and a member of the company’s Executive Committee.

Under our by-laws, executive officers are elected by the Board of Directors at an annual meeting of the Board held for this purpose or by a resolution to fill a vacancy. Each officer is elected to hold office until a successor is chosen or as otherwise provided in the by-laws.

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