page_title: Andy Palmer
section_title: Business career
hierarchical_section_title: Andy Palmer / Business career
caption_attribution_description: English: Andy Palmer, Chief Planning Officer and Executive Vice President of en:Nissan at launch of e-NV200 in en:Yokohama, 9 June 2014 - Picture by Bertel Schmitt
context_page_description: Andrew Charles Palmer CMG FIMechE is an English engineer and businessman. He was president and CEO of Aston Martin from 2014 to 2020. In 2017, he was appointed chairman of the productivity and skills commission of the new West Midlands Combined Authority. Palmer was previously the chief planning officer, executive vice-president and member of the executive committee of Nissan Motor Company. Reporting directly to Nissan's president and CEO, Carlos Ghosn, Palmer shared the chief operating officer role with two Nissan executives. Palmer was also chairman of Infiniti, and president of Nissan Motor Light Truck Co, a member of the board of directors of Nissan Investment Company, and of Nissan's joint ventures with India's Ashok Leyland. He has been called an "engineer-turned-marketing guru [with a] raw instinct."
context_section_description: "Senior auto execs love to portray themselves as car guys," wrote Car and Driver, "but this expertise often goes no deeper than the ability to shoot the breeze in the paddock of an upmarket historic race. Palmer was the real deal, somebody who could cut it in the pit lane with wrenches and screwdrivers. The 56-year-old Brit saw every level of the car industry, beginning at the very bottom as a long-haired, 16-year-old technical apprentice with AP Brakes, and rising all the way to become Nissan's global development boss under Carlos Ghosn."
  Palmer started his professional career in 1983 as a project engineer of UK Automotive Products Limited. In 1991, he became manual transmission chief engineer of Rover Group.
caption: Andy Palmer, talking to reporters during e-NV200 launch in Yokohama
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