Bio

John Cormican is the General Manager of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Vehicle Engineering locations in both Ireland and the United States. John originally helped JLR setup its world class software engineering operation in Shannon back in 2017 and has been leading the US software engineering operation in Portland since 2018. The teams play an important role in realising JLR’s vision around Electric Vehicles and Automated Driving via Connected Services, Data and Software. John began his career as a software engineer at technology start-up Piercom and then moved to US communications multi-national Tellabs. He then spent 15 years at Intel in a variety of technical and business roles, the most recent being Director of Automotive Business Development. John is a graduate of the University of Limerick and obtained a BSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Engineering in 1998.