Biography

Mr. Gouin is a finance and executive business leader with extensive board and governance experience developed during his four-decade career in the global manufacturing sector. Mr. Gouin has an advanced level of expertise in risk oversight, sales and marketing, and is an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K.

Mr. Gouin joined Tower International, Inc. in November 2007 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and served as President beginning in 2016. He became Chief Executive Officer and a member of Tower’s Board of Directors in 2017, serving until the company’s sale in 2019. Prior to Tower, Mr. Gouin served as a Senior Managing Director of the corporate finance practice of FTI Consulting, Inc., a business advisory firm. Mr. Gouin spent 28 years at Ford Motor Company in a variety of senior positions, including Vice President, Finance and Global Corporate Controller, and Vice President of Finance, Strategy and Business Development for Ford Motor Company’s international operations.

Mr. Gouin currently serves as a Director of International Automotive Components Group, a private company, where he chairs the Audit Committee. He also serves on the board of Enerflex Ltd. and its audit committee, following the sale of Exterran Corporation in 2022, where he previously served on the board, audit committee, and compensation committee from 2015. Board of Directors. In addition, Mr. Gouin served on the boards of Azure Dynamics, a hybrid electric drive train company, until 2012, and the Board of Trustees of the University of Detroit Mercy until October 2017. He served as Chair of the Board of Vista Maria, a non-profit corporation, until 2019.

Mr. Gouin received a B.B.A. from the Detroit Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the University of Detroit Mercy.