The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust has announced the completion of its new board. Drawn from senior leadership roles in JLR and the wider automotive and classic car industries, the board members are responsible for safeguarding the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust in the continuation of its core mission to preserve its collection of historic vehicles, artefacts and archives for posterity as well as define and accelerate the future strategy of the trust to guide it into its next successful era.
Stuart Dyble, who has served as a trustee of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust for the past 25 years, has been appointed Chairman. Dyble, the Founder and Executive Chairman of global automotive public relations consultancy Influence Associates and Influence Emobility, led the Jaguar Land Rover Global Communications Team as Board Director from 2000 to 2007 and held a series of other Board-Level roles at OEMs and in the Global motor Industry.
Keith Benjamin has been appointed Managing Director of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust. Benjamin’s exceptional experience across various brands in the global automotive industry includes 37 years at the OEM board level, 12 of which were spent as Jaguar Land Rover’s Legal Director.
The appointment of Jaguar Managing Director Rawdon Glover as a board member demonstrates the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust’s strong links with Jaguar today at the highest possible level. It is a critical stakeholder in the Jaguar brand’s past, present, and future.
Glover is joined on the board by colleague Richard Agnew, Director of Brand Communications and insights for Jaguar, Range Rover, Defender, and Discovery. Agnew brings almost three decades of Jaguar senior leadership experience and insight. In addition to his brand knowledge and responsibilities, he brings world-class expertise in marketing, digital, and events, core skill sets for the future of the Trust.
Duncan Wiltshire, Chairman of The Royal Automobile Club and CEO of Motor Racing Legends Ltd, further bolsters the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust board with his deep knowledge, extensive relationships and connections in classic car and racing communities.
Other JLR appointees on the Board include Anna Gallagher, Customer Love Transformation Director; Richard Shore, who recently returned from a five-year posting in China as President of JLR Marketing, Sales, and Service; Kevin Stride, Director of Future Customer Quality; and Paul Barritt, Head of JLR Classic.
Long-standing Independent Board Members include Barrie Thrussell, who has had a distinguished fifty-plus year career primarily in the retail motor industry. Joe Elliot MBE brings significant board-level expertise in the automotive and sports sectors. Martyn Hollingsworth, a former Jaguar Chief Engineer and Peter Read a former KPMG partner, highly experienced Chairman and non-executive as well as Concours Chair of judges and classic car aficionado.
Patrons and Board Members include Peter Mitchell OBE, the Trust’s Founder Patron. Mitchell established the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT) and the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (JDHT) in 1983 with the support of Sir Michael Edwards, the then Chairman of British Leyland Plc. and Michael Quinn, grandson of Sir William Lyons, Jaguar’s Founder.
The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust continues to work alongside BMIHT, which houses its own heritage collection at the British Motor Museum, and JLR Classic, which provides authentic and original parts for Land Rover and Jaguar models that have been out of production for ten years or more. All three parties benefit from the sharing of resources.
