Lyle J. Otremba
Vice President – Global Sales And Engineering
Body And Chassis Systems Division
Cooper-Standard Automotive

Lyle Otremba has established himself as a dynamic and effective global leader during his distinguished 25-year career in the automotive industry. Currently Vice President-Global Sales and Engineering for Cooper-Standard Automotive’s $1.2B Body and Chassis Systems Division, he leads the worldwide development and implementation of the division’s commercial and technical solutions in automotive sealing, and noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) controls for all markets and customers. All global customer and regional business units within the division report to him.

Prior to joining Cooper-Standard, he was vice president-Business Development for FCI, a $1.6B global leader in electronic interconnect solutions, where he led the sales, marketing, and product development activities for the company’s automotive division. In other previous assignments, he was vice president-Automotive Channel-Europe for Thomas and Betts, a $3B leader in electrical and electronic interconnects; and vice president and general manager of Auttocom, a $35M joint venture plastics manufacturing company between Freudenberg-NOK and Mecaplast, which was formed under his leadership. Fluent in German, Otremba also served the Robert Bosch Corp. in Germany where he was product manager for electronic safety systems programs. He began his career as a sales engineer with Bendix Corporation in 1979.

Otremba holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Detroit, and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from Michigan State University. He also completed the Executive Program in General Management at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Otremba is an active speaker to community groups and industry leadership forums.

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