ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Joining me this week is long time Saab employee Dan David. Dan joined Saab in 1973 and finished his career in 2005. While at Saab he held several positions in Service, Warranty, Parts, Product Development, Customer Retention, Marketing and many combinations of them throughout his career in the USA and Sweden. He has many interesting tales of working with Saab USA founder Ralph Millet and many subsequent Saab Presidents including Bob Sinclair, Sten Helling, Jim Crumlish and Dan Chasins just to name a few. He credits his terrific teams with hard work and friendship that made his time at Saab an enjoyable experience. Dan talks about the early days at Saab where having just one word processor was a luxury, communicating with Sweden by Telex and operated assisted phone calls. He experienced first hand the meteoric rise of the company in the 1980’s to the GM takeover emphasizing the term “outsourcing” of numerous departments in the 1990’s. Please enjoy.
