Louisville Assembly Plant manager helping move Ford forward
Daryl Sykes, general manager of Ford Motor Co.'s Louisville Assembly Plant, started his manufacturing career in an unlikely place: finance.
In his younger years, Sykes believed that field was his calling. He majored in finance and accounting during his time at Ohio State University and, right out of college, took a job with a firm called Brooks Securities near Cleveland.
But his career path eventually led him somewhere more familiar. His father had enjoyed a long career at Ford, and Sykes began...