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Ralph Gilles


Ralph Gilles
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Born: 14 January 1970

An automobile designer and auto industry executive.

Biography

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Ralph Gilles page on 2 October 2019, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Ralph Victor Gilles is a Haitian-Canadian-American automobile designer and executive. Gilles was the President and CEO of Chrysler's SRT brand and Senior Vice President of Design at Chrysler before being promoted to Head of Design for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in April 2015.

Gilles styled the North American Car of the Year-winning 2005 Chrysler 300 after joining Chrysler in 1992. Gilles also led the design team that created the 2014 SRT Viper.

Background

Born in New York City to Haitian immigrants, Gilles was raised in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at Vanier College in Montreal, before moving on to the US for his university studies.

Gilles was drawing concept vehicles at the age of eight. When he was fourteen years old, his aunt Gisele Mouscardy sent one of his sketches to then Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca. A reply came from K. Neil Walling, Chrysler's design chief at the time, suggesting he attend one of three design schools.

Gilles attended the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, and in 2002 received an Executive MBA from Michigan State University. He lives in Oxford, Michigan.

Career

In August, 2008, Gilles replaced retiring Trevor Creed as Senior Vice President of Design. In October 2009, Gilles was promoted to President and CEO of the Dodge car brand. He was replaced as Dodge's CEO in June 2011, remaining Senior Vice President of Design and becoming CEO of Chrysler's Street and Racing Technology division.

Gilles was profiled in the first season of the Netflix docu-series Abstract: The Art of Design.


Documents

DateDocument Name & DetailsDocuments
28 August 1987From: K.N. Walling, Chrysler Corporation
To: Ralph Gilles
Text - 1 page


Article Index

DateArticleAuthor/Source
10 June 2010Dodge Motorsports Media ConferenceJoe Balash
Ralph Gilles
Joe Grace
Byron Kearney
Roger Penske
7 August 2012NASCAR: Dodge AnnouncementRalph Gilles





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