Jeep, Ram chief replaces ailing Marchionne as FCA CEO

NonePHOTO GALLERY: Sergio MarchionnePHOTO GALLERY >> TURIN -- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Saturday appointed Mike Manley to replace the seriously ill Sergio Marchionne as CEO.Manley, 54, a native of England, has headed Jeep since 2009 and the Ram brand since 2015."Fiat Chrysler Automobiles communicates with profound sorrow that during the course of this week unexpected complications arose while Mr. Marchionne was recovering from surgery and that these have worsened significantly in recent hours," the company said in a statement. "As a consequence, Mr. Marchionne will be unable to return to work."The Board of Directors of FCA, meeting today, firstly expressed its closeness to Sergio Marchionne and his family and underlined the extraordinary contribution, both human and professional, that he has made to the Company in these years."The Board resolved to accelerate the CEO transition process that has been proceeding over the past months and named Mike Manley as CEO."An emergency meeting of the FCA board of directors to appoint a replacement was chaired in Turin by John Elkann, the FCA chairman and controlling shareholder of Ferrari, FCA and construction equipment maker CNH Industrial."Mr. Manley and his management team will proceed with the implementation of the 2018–2022 Business Plan as presented on June 1 of this year, a plan that will further assure FCA’s strong and independent future," the FCA statement said.Marchionne, 66, had surgery on his right shoulder and needs a short period of convalescence, an FCA spokesman told Italian business website Lettera 43 on July 5. He has not been seen in public since June 26, when he delivered a Jeep Wrangler to the Carabinieri police in Rome. Marchionne, who became CEO of Fiat in 2004 and orchestrated its merger with Chrysler Group a decade later, had said his successor, originally scheduled to be appointed in April 2019 after approval of the 2018 financial results, was going to come from the company's Group Executive Council. At FCA capital market day in Balocco, Italy, on June 1, Marchionne said: “My successor sits in this room.”

Jeep, Ram chief replaces ailing Marchionne as FCA CEO

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