Michael J. Guthrie
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors and President and CEO of SPECTRA LLC and Detroit Chassis LLC
Michael J. Guthrie is Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, and President and CEO of SPECTRA LLC, a Detroit, Michigan based holding company with several automotive manufacturing and engineering subsidiaries. Michael and his brother Carlton are sole shareholders of SPECTRA. Subsidiaries include: Detroit Chassis, LLC, an assembler of running RV chassis and niche vehicles located in Detroit, Michigan; Detroit Custom Chassis, a provider of custom chassis modifications also located in Detroit, Michigan; MAGNYS, LLC, a process and manufacturing engineering firm located in Livonia, Michigan and its subsidiary VSim LLC, a developer of proprietary software for CNC and PLC emulation.
Michael is a native of Gary, Indiana. He was valedictorian of his high school class. Michael received an A.B. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Michael practiced corporate litigation at Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, an international law firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. He joined Johnson Products Company as Senior Attorney and quickly advanced to the post of Vice-President of Corporate Planning.