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Why Chinese OEMs Move Faster: Ramiro Gutierrez on Value, Software, and Automotive Leadership
Tariffs bought this industry a window. Ramiro Gutierrez, President of North America, ZF Group, is not convinced we are using it.
He has spent 30 years in the automotive industry, and he left it once. Aerospace turned out to be slower than he expected, with cycles running roughly five times longer, and he returned to ZF for engineering. What he came back to is a company spending around 8% of revenue on R&D and now under real pressure to prove that money produces a return.
That pressure is where this conversation starts, and it goes somewhere most tier one interviews do not. Ramiro walks…
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