Goodyear completed the shake-up of its North American Tire unit with a pair of promotions and other executive moves.
Jack Winterton (left) and Phillip Kane.
Jack Winterton was promoted to president of the North American Tire unit’s consumer business unit. Winterton, 58, succeeds Steve McClellan, who was promoted to president of Goodyear North American Tire in August 2011 upon the sudden departure of Curt Andersson.
Winterton was most recently the chief customer officer for Goodyear’s North American Tire consumer business, and prior to that he was vice president of consumer tire sales (2003-08) and director of dealer consumer tire sales (2002-03).
Phillip Kane was appointed vice president of Goodyear’s North American Tire commercial tire business, succeeding Joe Copeland, who announced that he is leaving the company.
For the past year, Kane, 47, has been president of Goodyear’s Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems unit. He joined Goodyear in 2004 as director of strategic initiatives before moving to director of North American Tire’s consumer wholesale distribution channel.
Ryan Patterson, 38, was elevated to the newly created position of vice president, consumer operations and customer development. He had been finance director for Goodyear’s North American Tire consumer business since September 2008.
Paul Wanstreet, 54, will replace Kane as president of Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems. Wanstreet had been head of operations for Goodyear’s consumer retail business, but previously served as vice president of operations for Wingfoot for two years through 2009.