Navistar Corporate Communications announced that it has restructured its team to provide an enhanced product focus. Additionally, after a successful tenure directing Navistar external communications, Lyndi McMillan will take a new role within the team as director of business communications. In this position, McMillan is responsible for the management of the company’s corporate reputation, crisis management, financial communication and partner relationships.
“With the addition of the International CV for the Class 4-5 Market Navistar has the industry’s most comprehensive lineup,” said David Giroux, chief communications officer for Navistar. “The reorganization of the communication team was fueled by the critical importance of media relations to trade and well as business press alike as the company continues to grow and prosper.”
New additions to the Navistar Media Relations team are:
- Bre Whalen, manager of on-highway product communications: Whalen is new to Navistar and the trucking industry and joins the team eager to apply her eight years of media relations expertise to the field. Most recently, she managed all aspects of public relations for a portfolio of recognizable consumer franchise brands. A passionate aerialist in her free time, Whalen also enjoys traveling and hopes to one day train with an international circus group. Whalen is devoted to the oversight of all on-highway products in her new role.
- Darwin Minnis, manager of vocational product and bus communications: Minnis has spent the past three years working in the trucking industry for Navistar’s Internal Communications Team. With a background in journalism, he is excited to now share Navistar’s story with a new audience. Outside of work, he spends his time producing music, teaching himself piano and playing sports. In his new role, Minnis is dedicated to all things medium-duty, vocational and school bus.
