Carlos Tavares

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Carlos Tavares at the Geneva Motor Show 2018
Carlos Tavares together with Linda Jackson (CEO Citroën) at the Mondial de l'Automobile 2018

Carlos Tavares (born August 14, 1958 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese manager. He initially worked for Nissan in the USA for five years , after which he was an executive at Renault for 32 years . Since January 1, 2014, he has been CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën , France's largest car manufacturer.

Life

Carlos Tavares grew up in Lisbon in a family of a French teacher and attended the Lycée Français Charles Lepierre in Lisbon, before he moved to the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat in Toulouse in 1976 and attended preparatory classes. He studied at the École Centrale Paris , one of the oldest and most renowned engineering schools in France.

Career

Tavares began his professional career at Renault in 1981. He worked on the design team for the Renault Mégane RS . Then he worked for Renault's cooperation partner Nissan . From 2009 he headed Nissan's operations in North and South America. Since 2013 he has been a manager at Renault.

In 2014 he was appointed CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën, where he replaced Philippe Varin . He implemented cost savings and increased the company's market share in China .

At the end of July 2017, the French took over the Opel and Vauxhall brands for around 1.3 billion euros from the then parent company General Motors (GM).

Private

Tavares has three children. He had been an amateur racing driver since the age of 22 and took part in the Monte Carlo Rally . He collects vintage cars and owns a "1979 Peugeot 504 V6 Coupé, a 1976 Alpine A110 and a Porsche 912 from 1966".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Stothard: Classic rally car driving with the FT: Carlos Tavares , Financial Times , March 6, 2015
  2. ^ Corporate Executives Carlos Tavares . corporate-executives.com. Accessed on February 16, 2017 (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Mike Ramsey: Renault's Carlos Tavares: Meet the Next Auto Boss , The Wall Street Journal , December 20, 2012
  4. ↑ PSA Peugeot: Executive Committee ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com
  5. ^ A b Michael Stothard, Henry Foy: Peugeot taps former Renault executive Carlos Tavares as chief , Financial Times , November 25, 2013
  6. ↑ PSA boss Tavares collects millions in bonuses for the Opel renovation. Handelsblatt dated April 4, 2018 (accessed September 6, 2018)
  7. ^ Anne-Sophie Lechevallier: Carlos Tavares - L'homme providentiel de PSA , in Paris Match , November 28, 2013, p. 44
personal data
SURNAME Tavares, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese manager, Chairman of the Board of PSA Group
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon