Talent in action

"Sergio has the best taste in sweaters I have seen, and his casual dress sense hides an incredible talent for driving change and taking risk."

Sergio Marchionne serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fiat S.p.A., Turin, and Fiat Group Automobiles. Mr. Marchionne began his professional career in 1983 as a chartered accountant and tax specialist for Deloitte & Touche in Canada. Two years later, he became Group controller and then director of corporate development at Lawson Mardon Group of Toronto. In 1989 and 1990, he served as executive vice president of Glenex Industries. In the following two years Mr. Marchionne acted as vice president of finance and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Acklands Ltd. He returned to Lawson Mardon Group in 1992 as vice president of legal and corporate development and CFO. The company was acquired by Alusuisse Lonza in 1994. After the acquisition, having become CEO in 1996, he held various positions of increasing responsibility until 2000.

Upon completion of the merger of Alusuisse with Alcan, he acted as CEO and Chairman of the spin-off Lonza Group Ltd. until 2002. In 2002, Mr. Marchionne was appointed CEO of the Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) Group of Geneva. He has been a member of the supervisory board of Fiat S.p.A. since 2003 and has served as CEO of the company since June 2004. Mr. Marchionne studied philosophy at the University of Toronto (Canada), business at the University of Windsor (Canada) and law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto (Canada) and is a lawyer and chartered accountant.Sergio Marchionne is Chairman of SGS and a member of the BoD of Philip Morris International Inc. He is also a member of Acea (European Automobile Manufacturers Association) and Chairman of CNH Case New Holland Global N.V.

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