New president for Rolls-Royce North America

28/09/2015
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has announced that the president of its North America business, Eric Shepherd, has decided to move to “a new entrepreneurial role in the super-luxury automotive retail sector within the Rolls-Royce family”.

Chief executive, chief executive, Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes, Rolls-Royce Motors is “highly supportive” of people who want to pursue personal business opportunities.

Mr Shepherd will continue in his current post until the end of 2015. He will be succeeded by Pedro Mota, who will join Rolls-Royce North America from Porsche, where he vice-president for the western region.

Pedro Mota will join Rolls-Royce in October to allow time for induction and familiarisation with the company before taking over full control of the North American business in January 2016.