Blue Bird Corporation announced that Julie A. Fream has joined the company?s Board of Directors. Fream succeeds Adam Gray, managing partner of Coliseum Capital Management LLC, who has decided to step down from the Board following Coliseum?s sale of its Blue Bird holdings through a secondary offering. Fream is a business strategy and implementation expert with 40 years of automotive industry and board experience.

Since 2013, she has been the president and CEO of MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers, a 500+ company-member trade association that advocates and advances vehicle suppliers? business needs in North America. Fream continues to steer the organization as the vehicle industry undergoes a major transformation to clean-powertrain technologies.

Fream is the founding chair of the Board of Directors for Corewell Health, a $14 billion healthcare system formed in 2022. From 2011 to 2018, she served an eight-year term as a governor-appointed trustee for Michigan Technological University, a research university focused primarily on engineering and related fields. From 2014 to 2016, Fream served as chair of the Michigan Tech Board of Trustees.

Fream holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.