After 24 years of working for the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker, most recently in the role of global product development operations controller, David Prystash is taking a job with another company. Despite the innocuous title, Prystash was one of the most influential and key components to Ford’s cost-cutting efforts.
Prystash will leave Ford to be chief financial officer of NewPage Corp. of Miamisburg, Ohio. At Ford, Prystash had been tasked with helping the automaker return to profit-making.
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09/19, 10:05 AM
posted by:
tastyorange
hhhhmmm maybe with the money they save not paying these people, they could put it into the cars?
Yeah… THAT will happen.
09/19, 12:00 PM
posted by:
J2D
They’ll probably spread it amongs each other.
09/19, 12:59 PM
posted by:
beatusmongous
Maybe this was the guy’s final “cost cutting” move. “Let’s cut out the guy that cuts costs. Wait, that’s me! Oh, crap!”
09/19, 1:22 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Poetic justice, beatus: the guy with the axe gets the axe.
09/19, 2:14 PM
posted by:
yarddog82abn
They cut his pay…..So he’s out……LOL……
09/19, 3:10 PM
posted by:
acura_el2000
cutting-costs = cutting-quality
09/19, 4:50 PM
posted by:
The Stig
Now if Ford would only dump Mark Fields they would be on their way…
09/19, 8:27 PM
posted by:
sharpie
Mark Fields: Yeeeeehaw! The wicked witch of cost cutting is dead! We can begin wasting again!
09/20, 2:25 PM
posted by:
zoomzoomer
If this is the guy that decided retsyling the old Focus was cheaper than bringing the Euro model to the US, then he should have been let go when they realized it cost them MORE.
09/20, 2:31 PM
posted by:
zoomzoomer
For 24 years, “Prystash was one of the most influential and key components to Ford’s cost-cutting efforts.”
…such as facelifting the same old Ranger and Grand Marquis for 20-some-odd years, rebadging the Five Hundred/Freestyle/Montego with minimal substantive changes, and failing to certify the current Fiesta and C1 Focus for US sale, yet having them freely available just across the border?
Good riddance.