Joao Paulo Ribeiro

Joao Paulo Ribeiro leads Visteon’s global operations activities. Responsible for driving operational excellence across Visteon’s 25 facilities in Europe, the Americas and Asia, he leads an organization that employs approximately 7,000 employees and manufactures more than 250,000 end items each day.

Ribeiro brings with him more than 25 years of automotive experience including leadership roles of increasing responsibility during a 22-year career with Ford and Visteon. Most recently, he served as vice president of manufacturing operations for Visteon plants in Mexico, Slovakia and Portugal. Prior to this role, Ribeiro served as Visteon’s European operations director, and from October 2010 to July 2014, he was the managing director of Visteon in Palmela.

Ribeiro has extensive experience developing a global competitive manufacturing footprint – driven by technology and employing lean manufacturing methodologies – to achieve consistent class-leading performance across all regions. He has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal.