Moray Callum will step down from the highest design function at Ford on April 1, the automaker introduced Monday.

Callum is the brother of equally gifted automotive designer Ian Callum and has been within the business for nearly 4 a long time, with half of that point spent at Ford.

He shall be changed by Anthony Lo, whose final job was head of exterior design at France’s Renault.

Like Callum, Lo shall be chargeable for each Ford and Lincoln and can report back to Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s head of product improvement.

“Our business is evolving extra quickly than ever, and Ford will win the belief of consumers by staying on the vanguard of that curve,” Thai-Tang mentioned in an announcement. “We’re excited to have (Lo) lead our design group as we speed up the creation of related, clever and more and more electrified merchandise.”

Callum has had two stints with Ford throughout his profession, break up by a stint at Mazda. The primary was from 1995 till 2001 and the second was from 2006 till now. Because of this he is had a hand in shaping quite a few Ford merchandise, together with current stars like the trendy Bronco, the Mustang Mach-E, and the GT supercar. Proven above is Callum’s own GT, which he put up on the market by means of Canepa final fall.

Lo positively has large sneakers to fill, although happily he has loads of expertise. He earned a grasp’s diploma in automotive design on the Royal Faculty of Artwork in London and in 1987 began his profession at Lotus the place he was chargeable for the model’s upgrades made to the Vauxhall Carlton.

He then had transient stints at Mercedes-Benz and Audi earlier than becoming a member of Basic Motors in 2004, the place he labored on a variety of idea and manufacturing automobiles for Saab and Opel, each of which have been owned by GM on the time. For the previous decade, Lo has been at Renault.