Navistar CEO assumes operating responsibility for truck group
Apr 23, 2003 12:00 PM
Navistar International Corporation announced that Daniel C. Ustian, president and chief executive officer, has assumed operating responsibility for the company's truck group, effective immediately. The company said that J. Steven Keate, who had served as president of the truck group since June 1999, has left the company. During Keate's tenure Navistar's operating company launched the industry's first high performance truck line. Keate joined the company in March 1995 as vice president and corporate controller and led the development of the company's five-point truck strategy. Prior to becoming president of the truck group, he headed heavy truck operations. Ustian has extensive operating experience and previously led the company's engine operation that under his leadership experienced tremendous growth and introduced new product advances.
