Cooper Appoints Robert Welding as Company Director
Cooper Tire & Rubber announced on August 3 that its Board of Directors has named Robert D. Welding as a director of the company, effective immediately. Welding, 58, is president and chief executive officer of Federal Signal Corporation and a member of Federal Signal’s board of directors.
Prior to joining Federal Signal in 2003, Welding was group president of the BorgWarner Driveline Group, a $1.2 billion global business, and executive vice president of BorgWarner Inc. Previously, he served as president and general manager of BorgWarner Transmission Systems, a unit of the Driveline Group. In his 20 years with BorgWarner, Welding held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility in operations and product engineering management. Prior to that, he served in various management and product engineering capacities for General Motors and Volkswagen of America. Welding began his career as a product development engineer in 1970.