The makeshift ice rinks carved into the snowy expanses of Dollar Lake are as far away in distance as they are in decorum from a Motor City boardroom.
And yet, Bill Ford is equally comfortable in both settings.
Like the blue and white warming tents staked into the Eagle River (Wis.) ice, the 54-year-old executive chairman of Ford Motor Company is a fixture at the annual Labatt Blue USA Hockey Pond Hockey Championships. And he wouldn’t have it any other way.