Matthew Cole — Senior Vice President of Product Development at Visteon Corporation

Mr. Matthew M. Cole, also known as Matt, has been Senior Vice President of Product Development at Visteon Corporation since December 2016. Mr. Cole served as the Head of Product Development at Visteon Corporation. Mr. Cole has global responsibility for the technical delivery for all customer programs and skills development for software, hardware, mechanical, electrical and systems engineering. He has approximately 24 years of automotive industry experience, including positions in manufacturing, product design, product planning and program management. His career has included various leadership assignments in five countries, most of which included the leadership of technical assets. In 2005, he was placed on international assignment in India to establish and manage two joint ventures. Following that assignment, he managed the Asia-Pacific engineering teams for Visteon's electronics business and also was appointed general manager, Yanfeng Visteon Automotive Electronics for two years. After 19 years with Visteon, he joined Johnson Controls where, after one year as vice president of product management for the Electronics Group, he was vice president of electronics engineering. In that role, he helped transform the engineering organization from a regional to global structure and enabled the development of infotainment and advanced products. He also participated with leadership in divesting Johnson Controls' electronics business to Visteon in July 2014. He has a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a master's degree in engineering management from the University of Michigan.