JLR ladies included in industry top 100
TWENTY female workers at Gaydon-based Jaguar Land Rover have been included in a new Top 100 Most Influential British Women in the Automotive Industry report.
Autocar magazine compiled the list in which F-PACE chief product engineer, Danella Bagnall, topped the Product Development Category, while Fiona Pargeter, JLR’s head of global PR communications, topped the Communications Category.
Danella is the company’s first-ever female vehicle programme director, having joined the company as an apprentice 28 years ago.
Also in the list from JLR are:
- Lorraine Toolan (global head of marketing, special operations)
- Imogen Pierce (graduate engineer)
- Alice Belcher (apprentice engineer)
- Siobhan Hughes (chief designer)
- Chloe Nunn (lead interior designer)
- Joanne Slater (chief designer)
- Sarah Nelmes (network development manager)
- Sukhi Clark (special operations)
- Elizabeth Hill (architecture planning director)
- Urmila Mistry (research and technology strategy engineer)
- Michelle Mortiboys (director of special vehicle operations)
- Anna Gallagher (senior launch manager)
- Gemma Oulton (product and brand strategy manager)
- Kirsty Pitcher (HR director)
- Lucy Reynolds (senior manager, Global PR)
- Gabi Whitfield (PR director)
- Gilliam Mara (group leader body engineering)
- Rebecca Turner (manufacturing excellence manager)
Jeremy Hicks, Jaguar Land Rover UK managing director, said: “We are absolutely thrilled that so many of our brightest and valued employees have been recognised in these special awards. We pride ourselves on the diversity of our workforce.
“They are at the forefront of a new age in which gender boundaries are being broken, and we’re incredibly lucky to have such talent here with us at Jaguar Land Rover.”
Autocar editorial director, Jim Holder, added: “At present, women are underrepresented in the automotive industry, but it is our belief that a positive focus on the numerous opportunities that a career in the industry can offer can have a real impact in reversing that trend.”
