Cooper Standard CEO and leadership

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The CEO of Cooper Standard is Jeffrey S. Edwards.

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Cooper Standard CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Jeffrey S. Edwards is the Cooper Standard's CEO. Cooper Standard has 32,000 employees, of which 33 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Cooper Standard executive team is 36% female and 64% male.
61% of the management team is White.
18% of Cooper Standard management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Jeffrey S. Edwards

CEO

Jeffrey 'Jeff' Edwards is a Group VP:Global Oems Ops at Johnson Controls,Inc And Affiliates; Group VP:Global Oems Ops at JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC; and Chairman/CEO at Cooper-Standard Automotive and is based in Novi, Michigan. He has worked as Group VP/Gen Mgr:Bus Dev at Johnson Controls,Inc And Affiliates; Group VP/Gen Mgr:Bus Dev at JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC; and Board Member at Cooper-Standard Automotive. Jeffrey works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at National Association of Manufacturers - NAM. He studied at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion.

Joanna M. Totsky

Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

Joanna Totsky is an accomplished C-suite executive with 25 years of public company experience in automotive and automotive finance industries. Throughout her career, Ms. Totsky has demonstrated a track record in executing cross border strategic investments and divestitures in North and South Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, as well as significant international experience, including assignments in Bangkok, Thailand and London, UK. She also brings expert qualifications in corporate governance, SEC and NYSE compliance, executive compensation, ESG and enterprise risk management through her service on nonprofit boards and her role as a chief legal officer and corporate secretary. Ms. Totsky built and led global teams.

Currently, Ms. Totsky serves as a senior vice president, chief legal and compliance officer and a secretary at Cooper-Standard Holdings, Inc., a $3 billion NYSE company that provides sealing and fluid components to automotive and industrial customers. Prior to joining Cooper Standard in 2016, Ms. Totsky spent 17 years at Ford Motor and Ford Motor Credit holding a variety of legal leadership positions, including a legal director role at Ford Credit European bank (FCE Bank) headquartered in London, UK where she was responsible for legal, compliance and banking regulatory matters.

Ms. Totsky serves on the Board of Inforum, a non-profit that accelerates careers for women. She also serves on the Global Board, Risk Committee and Finance and Audit Committee of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), a global legal association that promotes professional and business interests of in-house counsel, where she was formerly the president of the Michigan Chapter.

Larry E. Ott

Sr VP/Chief HR Officer

Larry Ott is a Trustee at MICHIGAN COLLEGES FOUNDATION and Sr VP/Chief HR Officer at Cooper-Standard Automotive and is based in Plymouth, Michigan. He has worked as Senior VP:Human Resources at Gmac Human Resources; Human Resources Director at GENERAL MOTORS CO; and Senior VP:Human Resources at MERITOR, INC.. Larry works or has worked as VP:Human Resources at Ally Financial. He attended University of Michigan between 1981 and 1983 and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point between 1977 and 1981.

Christopher E. Couch

SVP and CIO

Jonathan P. Banas

EVP, CFO

Jonathan Banas is a Senior Mgr:Financial Reporting at TRW Automotive and Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Cooper-Standard Automotive and is based in Detroit, Michigan. He has worked as Dir:Financial Reporting at TRW Automotive; President at 664 Consulting Group, PC; and Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Cooper-Standard Automotive. Jonathan attended University of Michigan Ross School of Business between 2004 and 2008 and Wayne State University between 1988 and 1993.

Patrick R. Clark

Chief Global Manufacturing Officer/Sr VP

Patrick R Clark is an Head:Global Manufacturing Operations at Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc, Chair:Global Manufacturing Council at Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc, and Senior Vice President and Chief Global Manufacturing Officer at Cooper-Standard Automotive. He has worked as VP:Business Development at Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc, Sr VP/Chief Global Engineering & Product Strategy Ofcr at Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc, and Sr Dir:Global Product Line Sealing at Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. Patrick studied at University of Michigan and Virginia Tech.

Robert J. Remenar

Board Member

Sonya F. Sepahban

Board Member

Adriana E. MacOuzet-Flores

Board Member

John G. Boss

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio

Jeffrey S. Edwards

CEO

Patrick R. Clark

Chief Global Manufacturing Officer/Sr VP

Robert J. Remenar

Board Member

Sonya F. Sepahban

Board Member

Adriana E. MacOuzet-Flores

Board Member

John G. Boss

Board Member

Justin Evan Mirro

Board Member

Stephen A. van Oss

Board Member

Christine M. Moore

Board Member

David John Mastrocola

Board Member

Cooper Standard leadership demographics

Cooper Standard gender distribution in management team

The Cooper Standard executive team is 36% female and 64% male.
Cooper Standard is 38% female and 62% male company-wide.

Male

64%

Company-wide: 62%

Female

36%

Company-wide: 38%

Cooper Standard executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among Cooper Standard executive officers is White.
61% of the management team is White.
18% of Cooper Standard's management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
68% of employees are White.
13% of employees are Black or African American.
9% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.

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What employees say about the executives at Cooper Standard

Employee reviews

2.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Feb 2024

Pros of working at Cooper Standard

Nice wage and benefits

Cons of working at Cooper Standard

They keep pushing you to work harder and keep raising the hourly rate. They order raw materials in time and then mandate you to work overtime

Cooper Standard benefits

Health benefits even though they cost more every year .

What do you like best about Cooper Standard's CEO and the leadership team?

I never worked with the current management

How would you improve Cooper Standard's culture?

Quit mandating overtime. Before the mandatories, people fought for overtime when you force people to work overtime, they are going to push back and refuse it

How did you prepare for the Cooper Standard interview?

You don’t need prep, they can’t hardly keep people as it is. People don’t want to work there because now they can make you work 90 days with no time off until you get in the union

How does your compensation at Cooper Standard compare to the industry average?

It’s good if you just want to work all of the time. When it’s really busy you can’t even use your vacation time.

What's the diversity at Cooper Standard like?

Don’t care

What brings you the most joy at Cooper Standard?

Going home

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Updated November 18, 2022

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