Neal to Head Up Bridgestone OTR Business - Tire Review Magazine

Neal to Head Up Bridgestone OTR Business

Bridgestone Americas promoted Bridget Neal to president of off-the-road at Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, effective Aug. 14.

Bridget Neal

Bridgestone Americas promoted Bridget Neal to president of off-the-road at Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, effective Aug. 14. Neal succeeds Taylor Cole, who recently was named president of Firestone Building Products.

“Bridget has developed extensive knowledge of the commercial tire business across her 15 year career with Bridgestone,” said Kurt Danielson, president of the commercial group in U.S. and Canada at Bridgestone. “She has held a number of leadership roles in critical business areas, including supply and demand planning, logistics, marketing and more. Her business acumen, combined with the great relationships she has built with our OTR customers domestically and globally, makes her incredibly well-suited for this important role.”

As president, Neal will lead all aspects of the Bridgestone OTR tire business in North America, including strategic planning, product and technology introductions, sales and engineering, Bridgestone said.

Neal joined Bridgestone in August 2002 as a supply planning and sourcing engineer. During her tenure, she has worked in various positions with in the company’s commercial tire business, including commercial supply chain manager; manager of distribution programs for Bridgestone Bandag retread systems; account executive for original equipment commercial truck and bus tires; and general manager of original equipment and government sales for the truck and bus business. She was promoted to her current position as director of OTR tire sales, in 2015.

Neal earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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