Thomas Ridge Email & Phone Number

Basildon, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Working on product strategy and planning for a range of Laureti products, including vehicles. Responsibilities include: Product concept and definition; overall responsibility for program management; and key liaison with business partners for hardware.

London, United Kingdom

Ad Punctum is a boutique consultancy focused on clients in the automotive and transport sectors. I provide support ranging from long-range strategy forecasts and implications to detailed operational advice on engineering, procurement and project management of vehicle programs.I also write a weekly research briefing which is published on Ad Punctum's website (with a short summary posted on LinkedIn).

London, United Kingdom

Owner of a development company that I use to create and test business-to-consumer and business-to-business product and service concepts.

Warley, Uk

I led a small team overseeing strategy development, special projects (such as Brexit) and competitor analysis for European C-suite executives.

Dunton, Uk

I led a team of 18 people, based in the U.K. and France, managing all financial aspects of Ford of Europe diesel engine development including joint venture relationships as well as some gasoline engine programs for customer automotive OEMs.

Warley, Uk

I led a team embedded within the Sales function responsible for control of budget & reporting for all fleet sales by Ford of Britain (about 60% of total sales).

Warley, Uk

I was leading a team containing direct reports in the UK & India with full responsibility for financial control of parts manufactured in Europe (Powertrain, stampings & vehicle components) that were sold to external customers, including five automotive OEMs, as well as inter-company sales to Ford sites outside Europe.

Warley, Uk

Profit forecasting, reporting & analysis of overall results for Ford of Europe automotive division (annual revenue at that time of around $35bn).

Dagenham, Uk

Sole engineering responsibility (machine performance & part quality) for machining operations of cast iron cylinder blocks & aluminium cylinder heads of 2.0L - 2.4L diesel engines, total production volume of approximately 700,000 units each year.

Various, Uk

Various graduate level positions, covering the following:• Manufacturing Process Engineer - Body and Stampings• HR Consultant - Internal HR Consultancy• Future Product Planning Specialist - Product Engineering

Halewood, Uk

I did a thin sandwich placement working in the lean manufacturing deployment office in Halewood shortly after the transition from Ford ownership to Jaguar.

Dagenham, Uk

I worked in the Stampings section.