John Casesa

John Casesa is Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, a global investment and advisory firm. He was previously Group Vice President, Global Strategy at Ford Motor Company, where he led strategy and business development and reported to the CEO. At Ford he created numerous new businesses including Argo AI, a rapidly-growing developer of an autonomous vehicle software platform built to serve customers industry-wide.

Casesa was one of Wall Street’s leading auto analysts for almost two decades, at Merrill Lynch and at Schroders. His thought-leading research changed the way investors understood many aspects of the auto industry. He authored Car Wars, which remains a benchmark for measuring automaker competitiveness, and Who Makes the Car, which presented a new framework for understanding the supply chain. In 2005, his Energy Security & Climate Change foretold the clean car revolution that is playing out today.

He was ranked as an All-Star eleven times by Institutional Investor magazine and helped write the New York Stock Exchange’s qualifying exam for securities analysts (Series 86).

Prior to Wall Street, he was a member of GM’s Marketing and Product Planning Staff.

Casesa holds a BS from St. John’s University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.