Carlos Antunes Tavares Dias was born on 14 August 1958 and is a Portuguese businessman.
16 Facts About Carlos Tavares
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Carlos Tavares is the chief executive officer of Stellantis, the world's sixth largest automaker by sales, formed by the merger of the PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
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Carlos Tavares was formerly the chief operating officer at Renault.
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Carlos Tavares was born in 1958 in Lisbon, his father was an accountant working for a French insurer and his mother was a French teacher.
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Carlos Tavares then graduated as an engineer from the Ecole Centrale Paris in 1981.
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Carlos Tavares was director of the Renault Megane II project.
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In 2005 Carlos Tavares was appointed executive vice-president, joining the board of directors.
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Reportedly, Ghosn demanded that Carlos Tavares apologize to staff for the gaffe and Carlos Tavares refused.
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Carlos Tavares became chief executive officer and Chairman of the Managing Board of Groupe PSA in 2014, replacing Philippe Varin.
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At Stellantis' first press conference, Carlos Tavares said he planned to save 5 billion euros a year in terms of investment, sharing of engines and platforms, and development.
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Carlos Tavares announced that he wanted to relaunch the most fragile brands, which could benefit from new investments.
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Carlos Tavares is known to be close to the former Prime Minister of Portugal Jose Socrates.
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Carlos Tavares has been an amateur racing driver since the age of twenty-two.
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Carlos Tavares notably participated in the Monte-Carlo Rally and he has his own team Clementeam Racing, by analogy with his daughter's first name.
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In 2014, together with Jean-Louis Daughter, Denis Gibaud and Jerome Maudet, Carlos Tavares won the A2 class of the Barcelona 24 Hours with a Peugeot RCZ Cup operated by Milan Competition.
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Carlos Tavares collects classic cars and owns a Peugeot 504 V6 Coupe from 1979, an Alpine A110 from 1976 and a Porsche 912 from 1966.