Luca de Meo will be Chief Executive Officer of Renault – July 2020.
After a year of chaos starting when then Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn was arrested by Japanese authorities, the Groupe Renault Board of Directors, meeting today under chair Mr. Jean-Dominique Senard appointed a 52-year-old Italian outside Mr. Luca de Meo as Chief Executive Officer of Renault S.A., and Chairman of Renault effective 1 July 2020. (Renault Board Confirms Expenses Improperly Used by Ghosn)
De Meo becomes the second executive to lead Renault (RNLSY) since Ghosn was arrested in Japan in 2018 and subsequently charged with financial fraud. Ghosn’s successor at Renault, Thierry Bollore, left last fall, in part it seems because he was a Ghosn protégé and after the collapse of a proposed merger with Fiat Chrysler in June that Nissan nixed. (Ghosn Shakeout is Ongoing as Thierry Bolloré, CEO Renault SA, is Fired by the Board of Directors, FCA Balks at French Government In-Laws. Renault Marriage Off, Renault’s Board of Directors Continue FCA Merger Study, Ghosn Shakeout is Ongoing as Thierry Bolloré, CEO Renault SA, is Fired by the Board of Directors)
Mrs. Clotilde Delbos, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Renault S.A. will continue until Mr. Luca de Meo takes office. In addition, the Board of Directors “gave a favorable opinion” on her appointment – bound to be controversial after she successfully held the job – to the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Renault S.A.
Clotilde Delbos, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Renault.
The Board of Directors stated it “considered that Mr. Luca de Meo, through his career, his experience and his success in his previous functions, combines all the qualities to contribute to all aspects of Groupe Renault’s development and transformation.”
Biographies
Born in Italy in Milan in 1967, Luca de Meo graduated in business administration at the Luigi Bocconi Commercial University in Milan. He began his career at Renault before joining Toyota Europe, then the Fiat Group where he managed the Lancia, Fiat and Alfa Romeo brands. He has more than 20 years of experience in the automotive sector. Luca de Meo joined the Volkswagen Group in 2009 as Marketing Director, both for passenger cars of the Volkswagen brand and for the Volkswagen Group. He then held the position of member of the Board of Directors in charge of Sales and Marketing at AUDI AG in 2012. He was Chairman of the Executive Committee of SEAT from November 1, 2015 until January 2020 and member of the Supervisory Boards Ducati and Lamborghini, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Volkswagen Group in Italy.
Born in 1967, Clotilde Delbos is graduated of EM Lyon. She began her career in California, then at Price Waterhouse in Paris before joining the Pechiney Group in 1992. She held various positions before becoming Division Financial Director. After Pechiney’s acquisition by Alcan, Clotilde Delbos served as Vice President & Business Finance Director of the Engineered Products Division from 2005 up until it was sold in 2011.
Clotilde Delbos joined Groupe Renault in 2012 as Group Controller. On May 1, 2014, she was appointed Alliance Global Director, Control. On April 25, 2016, she was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Groupe Renault. She also became Chairman of the Board of Directors of RCI Banque and is a member of the Groupe Renault Executive Committee. On October 11, 2019, she was appointed CEO of Renault for an interim period and remains Chief Financial Officer of Groupe Renault and Chairman of the Board of Directors of RCI Banque.
Groupe Renault
Groupe Renault has manufactured cars since 1898. Today it is an international multi-brand group, selling close to 3.9 million vehicles in 134 countries in 2018, with 36 manufacturing sites, 12,700 points of sales and employing more than 180,000 people.
To address the major technological challenges of the future, while continuing to pursue its profitable growth strategy, Groupe Renault is focusing on international expansion. To this end, it is drawing on the synergies of its five brands (Renault, Dacia, Renault Samsung Motors, Alpine and LADA), electric vehicles, and its (extremely troubled post Ghosn) alliance with Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors. With a 100% Renault owned team committed to the Formula 1 World Championship since 2016, the brand is involved in motorsports with this far mixed success.
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Boulogne-Billancourt, February 24, 2020 – “Renault SAS has taken a note of the press release issued by the Nanterre Public Prosecutor’s Office dated February 19, 2020 announcing the opening of an investigation regarding facts perpetrated against Renault.
Consistent with earlier reports and initiatives, Renault SAS has filed a civil-party petition to enforce its rights and will continue to fully cooperate with the judicial authorities.
Finally, Renault reserves the right to seek damages based on the outcome of the investigation.”