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Fiat Chrysler’s Mike Manley to Guide Americas Immediately after PSA Merger

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NV Chief Executive Officer

Mike Manley

will develop into head of the Americas subsequent the Italian-American company’s merger with France’s PSA Team, guaranteeing the new entity can leverage the veteran executive’s practical experience.

Mr. Manley has labored for Fiat Chrysler and its past incarnations for two decades. He has deep understanding of the U.S. market place, wherever he headed up the Jeep model, which he served to elevate to new highs in profitability and vehicles sold. Mr. Manley became Fiat Chrysler’s CEO in July 2018 in the wake of the sudden illness and death of

Sergio Marchionne.

“Mike took the helm of our organization underneath the most hard of instances, with Sergio’s cruel and premature passing…and he took us out of these dark times, main by example,” Fiat Chrysler Chairman

John Elkann

wrote in a letter to workforce Friday saying the go.

Mr. Elkann, a descendant of Fiat’s founder, Giovanni Agnelli, will be chairman of the newly merged business, to be called Stellantis.

PSA CEO

Carlos Tavares

will maintain the very same placement at Stellantis, which will be one particular of the world’s biggest automobile organizations pursuing the merger that is slated to close by the end of March. Fiat Chrysler and PSA—which helps make the Peugeot and Citroën brands—sold 8.7 million motor vehicles in between them past year, more than

General Motors Co.


‘Mike took the helm of our company less than the most tricky of conditions.’


— Fiat Chrysler Chairman John Elkann

Mr. Manley, who is 56 yrs aged, performed a important part in negotiating the merger, and his working experience with the U.S. current market was thought of critical to building the blend a achievement, some bankers have said.

He has long been a fixture in Fiat Chrysler’s executive ranks and has served as the head of the Jeep and Ram models, which churn out the bulk of the company’s gain in North America.

Fiat Chrysler’s North American operations have been the group’s funds cow for decades, offsetting losses racked up in other pieces of the world. That encounter in North America will be essential for Mr. Tavares. The Portuguese government correctly turned all over the Peugeot manufacturer and the previous European small business of GM, which PSA purchased in 2017, but he has confined expertise in the U.S.

When PSA does not sell vehicles in the U.S., it has introduced strategies to reintroduce the Peugeot manufacturer there after an pretty much-30-12 months hiatus.

Mr. Manley has struggled to take care of a faltering small business in Asia, the place Fiat Chrysler is however a marginal participant in China. The company’s options to increase Jeep’s market share radically have fizzled. Europe has extended been a weak spot for Fiat Chrysler, and Mr. Manley has not managed to engineer a turnaround in the group’s 2nd-largest market place throughout his 2 1/2 many years at the helm, a tenure that has been marked by the coronavirus pandemic.

When the Covid-19 crisis distribute globally before this calendar year, Mr. Manley steered Fiat Chrysler by means of unparalleled, extended plant shutdowns across the globe, and the firm moved promptly to shore up its hard cash, slicing the dividend.

Mr. Manley experienced stated on many instances, such as in September at an celebration for Fiat Chrysler’s Maserati brand, that he intended to remain on following the merger. That did very little to quash speculation that after staying spurned for the top job he would go away Fiat Chrysler to head up one more car or truck maker.

Produce to Eric Sylvers at [email protected], Nora Naughton at [email protected] and Ben Dummett at [email protected]

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Appeared in the December 19, 2020, print version as ‘Fiat Chrysler’s Manley to Head Up Americas.’

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