March 4th, 2010 by DaveAdmin
Today, Chrysler announced that Stephen Bartoli, who has headed Chrysler Europe sales and marketing, will now be the head of international product planning, business development, and integration, leading branding, strategy, and alliances outside North America. Bartoli reports to Mike Manley, who is in charge of international operations as a whole.
His former position will be held by [...]
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February 7th, 2010 by DaveAdmin
A new thread on DealershipForum has shed more light on this story; the thread includes an official notice from Fred Diaz, CEO of Ram.
As part of the continuing effort in our company’s transformation, the following appointments are effective immediately reporting to me:
• John Plecha [45 years old, hired from Ford] is appointed Director – Great Lakes [...]
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November 24th, 2009 by DaveAdmin
Chrysler, which will be engineering its own vehicles using a mix of Fiat and Chrysler platforms and executives, has announced the replacement of Jan Bertsch, who is leaving the company on November 30, with two executives, a CIO and a treasurer (both will be vice presidents). Scott Sandschafer, the new CIO, hails from Case New [...]
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October 5th, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler Group has announced the creation of Ram as a brand in its own right and named Fred Diaz as its president and CEO. Designer Ralph Gilles will become the CEO of Dodge cars while retaining his position as the head of Chrysler design. Gilles is probably best known for the design of the Chrysler [...]
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September 22nd, 2009 by DaveAdmin
Though powertrains have long been considered one of Chrysler’s strengths, as seen in the class-leading Neon 2.0 (when it arrived), Hemi V8, and Pentastar V6, a Fiat executive has now taken over Chrysler’s Powertrain Engineering division.
Paolo Ferrero was just named Senior Vice President of Chrysler Powertrain. He will report directly to CEO Sergio Marchionne, and will [...]
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August 23rd, 2009 by DaveAdmin
Charles A. Joans started the industry’s first factory auction in September 1963 as manager of Chrysler Leasing Corp’s national used-vehicle sales. Chrysler hired Mr. Joans in 1963 to help dispose of it’s factory used cars. They were being sold according to a discount formula, without regard to condition or mileage, at prices considerably less than [...]
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