Jerome M Guillen is a transport executive working in automotive manufacturing.
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11 Facts About Jerome Guillen
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Jerome Guillen holds a Doctor of Engineering from the University of Michigan and has worked for Freightliner Trucks, Daimler AG and Tesla, Inc Guillen previously studied in France at ENSTA Paris.
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Jerome Guillen worked at Tesla, Inc for ten years between 2010 and 2021, including as President of Automotive, having previously led both the Tesla Model S and Tesla Semi manufacturing programmes.
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Jerome Guillen attended the Ismael-Dauphin school in Cavaillon, followed by the Lycee Thiers secondary school in Marseille.
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Jerome Guillen completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1999.
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Jerome Guillen was later promoted to General Manager of New Product Development.
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Jerome Guillen was project leader for the Freightliner Cascadia program, which was plagued with repeated recalls of hundreds of thousands of vehicles for dozens of reasons including multiple brake system design failures, and wiring systems designed and installed backwards.
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On 7 July 2007 Jerome Guillen was approached by Dieter Zetsche of Freightliner's parent company, Daimler, and starting in September 2007 became Daimler's Director of Business Innovation.
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Whilst demonstrating the Tesla Model X at the North American International Auto Show in January 2013, Jerome Guillen stated that he did not regret the move to Tesla in California, but did miss the German dishes of Kasespatzle and Maultaschen, plus visiting the Stuttgart Ballet.
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Jerome Guillen left Tesla in the role of President, Tesla Heavy Trucking on 3 June 2021.
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