Now with Chrysler, he's making alternative plans (Bradenton Herald)

Jim Press, a Toyota lifer and one of the people most responsible for that brand's U.S. success, stunned the auto industry by joining Chrysler in 2007. The smallest of the Big Three, Chrysler had just become an independent company after Cerberus Capital Management bought 80 percent of it, ending the unsuccessful German-American hybrid known as DaimlerChrysler.