Sergio Marchionne

Sergio Marchionne ( born June 17, 1952 in Chieti, Italy) is an Italian- Canadian manager.

Life

At the age of 14 years Marchionne emigrated with his family to Toronto, Canada. There, he studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, Business Administration at the University of Windsor and law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto. Marchionne is a lawyer and accountant. His professional career began in 1983 as an auditor and tax specialist for at the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche in Canada. In the following years, took over Sergio Marchionne various management positions at the packaging company Lawson Mardon Group, at Glenex Industries and at Acklands Ltd.. In 1992 he returned to Lawson Mardon Group and was Chief Financial Officer.

After the company was acquired by Alusuisse Lonza ( Algroup ) in 1994, Marchionne has held various positions and was founded in 1997 by CEO Alusuisse. After the merger of Alusuisse and Alcan, he served as CEO and Chairman of the cleaved Lonza Group Ltd.. active.

Marchionne was appointed in 2002 as CEO of the Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS ) in Geneva, he reorganized the troubled company. In 2006 he took over the chairmanship of the Board of SGS. Since 2003, Marchionne is a member of the Supervisory Board since June 2004 and Chief Executive Officer of Fiat SpA Also, Sergio Marchionne CEO of Fiat Group Automobiles, Fiat 's largest industry daughter. Inside the Fiat Group, he led numerous remediation measures, such as cutting red tape, process acceleration, market orientation and new models and saved the financially ailing company from ruin. Since April 2007, Marchionne is also a director of UBS, where he was appointed in 2008 to the non-executive vice-president.

Since the summer of 2009, he is also CEO of Chrysler LLC in the course of the then planned majority stake of Fiat to the American automobile company, now part of Chrysler to Fiat.