HSV CEO Scott Grant resigns
August 4, 2008 by Alborz Fallah
Last Friday saw Holden Special Vehicles’ Chief Executive Officer Scott Grant resign “effective immediately”.
The news comes just a few short days after HSV released the mighty W427. The fastest and most expensive HSV ever created.
The statement from HSV says Mr Grant will be returning to Sydney to pursue “other career opportunities”. Although rumour has it Mr Grant will be moving to work for rival Toyota, perhaps even the TRD division.
The man taking back the CEO office today is Phil Harding, former CEO of HSV.
Scott Grant was only with the Tom Walkinshaw owned performance company for 14 months.
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Perhaps an abandon ship move? Although if i was him, i’d be chasing the money too.
With his experience at HSV, he might incorporate some HSV ideas into TRD. A 4.7L quad cam Aurion anybody? Prob still be FWD though…
You have to wonder why a CEO who was at the helm for such a short time, and during continued sales growth, would vacate his position without notice while Walkinshaw is in town.
There is little doubt that it’s unrelated to job performance, so it must be a personal issue between Walkinshaw and him.
The bulk of Scott Grant’s industry experience was built from his time at Toyota. He started there in the late 80’s and worked his way up from the Parts area to executive level where he was seen as the golden child.
He really has no business running a performance division, and his own personality is so far removed from the psyche of the typical HSV buyer, that it’s no surprise he’s out of there in such a hurry.
I suspect he’ll be back at Toyota soon, and he will have put this behind him as a necessary stepping stone to broaden his industry experience before returning as the prodigal son.
as the prodigal son hey? I think Reckless is closer to the mark, Tom Walkinshaw is a well known ball buster, they probably had an argument about something and uncle Tom told him to back his bags.
It’s happened a number of times before, when Tom Walkinshaw is involved, any time someone leaves unexpectedly you can be guaranteed it’s a sacking. I wouldn’t want to work for him!
His pay cheque probably bounced!