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"With Ron Dennis having vacated his role as CEO of McLaren Automotive earlier this year in favor of chairing the entire McLaren Group (including the racing and road-car divisions), the day-to-day operations of McLaren Automotive had come down largely to Antony Sheriff in his role as Managing Director. But if you looked closely, you may have noticed that Sheriff was conspicuously absent from the vital presentation of the McLaren P1 at the Geneva Auto Show in March. That&amp;#039;s because Sheriff has been on leave for several months now, with little word emanating from Woking as to when (or indeed, if) he may return. Fortunately, McLaren has now named a new chief executive. That role now falls to Mike Flewitt, who served for the past year as McLaren&amp;#039;s Chief Operating Officer and, before that, in a variety of senior executive roles at Ford, TWR, Rolls-Royce, and Bentley. We met with Flewitt at the Geneva Auto Show, and based on those conversations, it seems the automaker is in excellent hands. Mike Flewitt is an engaging and enthusiastic executive who sees enormous opportunities for McLaren as a sports car manufacturer, both in the near future and the long term.  When reached for clarification, McLaren confirmed that, were Antony Sheriff to return tomorrow, he&amp;#039;d be reporting to Flewitt, not the other way around. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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