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27 January 2021 5:17 pm / 5 comments Moray Callum Anthony Lo, vice president, Design
If you’ve been following the auto industry, the name Moray Callum will be a familiar one. Synonymous with Ford, Callum will cap his 38-year product development career – more than half of which was with the Blue Oval – as the company’s vice president (design) for Ford and Lincoln vehicles. He will retire this spring.
One of the car industry’s most influential design leaders, Callum’s most recent body of work include the 2021 Ford F-150 truck, the Ford Mustang Mach-E electric car, and the reimagined Ford Bronco and Bronco Sport. A refined, modern design language for Lincoln has been essential to the premium brand’s resurgence.
He will be replaced by
Anthony Lo, who most recently was vice president, Exterior Design, for the Renault Group.
Callum’s retirement is effective May 1, enabling a one-month transition to Lo, who will start with Ford on April 1. Like Callum, Lo will report to
Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s chief product platform and operations officer.
About Moray Callum
Callum’s design influence on Ford and the industry has been extensive.
His most recent body of work was particularly prolific, as Callum and his team helped create and introduce the acclaimed 2021 F-150, Mustang Mach-E, and reimagined Bronco and Bronco Sport.
A refined, modern design language for Lincoln has been essential to the brand’s global resurgence.
Ford Design Exits and Entrances
Ford design leader Moray Callum is taking his pen and going home.
Callum will call it a day after 38 years as one of the auto industry’s preeminent designers. With more than half his career at Ford, Callum vacates his post as vice president, design, for Ford and Lincoln brand vehicles worldwide. His successor is Anthony Lo, most recently vice president, exterior design, at Renault. Callum will leave on May 1, after a one-month transition period with Lo, who starts April 1.
Callumâs influence at Ford has been profound, especially the work he and his team did recently, which included the 2021 F-150, Mach-E, new Bronco, and Bronco Sport. A redefined product line at Lincoln led to the brand’s resurgence. Other successes attributed to Callum included the 1999 Super Duty truck, 2011 Explorer, 2005 Mazda MX-5, 2007 Mazda CX-7, 2015 Mustang, and F-150, and 2016 Mustang GT.
Born in Scotland, Callum worked indirectly with Ford since the late 1980s, when he was a consultant designer at Ghia in Italy. He worked on the development of numerous concept vehicles, including the Ford Ghia Via and Aston Martin Lagonda Vignale.
He went to Mazda in Japan from 1995 to 2001, heading up the company’s transformation in its design studios. Through Ford’s relationship with Mazda, Callum went to Ford in 2006 as an executive director of design, and moved up to his current role in 2014.
Earlier in his career, Callum also worked for Chrysler in the U.K.; and for PSA Peugeot Citroën in France.