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Personnel De Meo is named Alfa Romeo CEO Renault names new managers TURIN ‰ Luca De Meo is the new CEO of Alfa Romeo Automobiles. He started December 12. De Meo has run (From left) Balthazard, Prost, Esteve and Norman get promotions. De Meo, 40, Fiat and Lancia. replaced An- Tom Armitage late 1990s and was named tonio Baravalle, 42. Automotive News Europe deputy corporate secretary De Meo keeps his job as general in 2003. chief marketing officer of Fiat Renault named two new Renault also confirmed the group and CEO of Fiat’s members to its management appointments of two other sporty Abarth brand. He start- committee, covering engi- members of it management ed both jobs last September. neering and resources roles. committee. Earlier, he was CEO of the The two managers started Jacques Prost, 54, has been Fiat brand. Prior to that he ran their jobs January 2. senior vice president of pow- Fiat sister brand Lancia. He is Michel Balthazard, 53, is se- ertrain engineering since the the first person to ever run four nior vice president of pre-en- start of 2007. out of Fiat’s six brands. gineering, projects and re- Previously he worked on Along with running Alfa, quirements. He joined Re- the first-generation Laguna De Meo has marketing re- nault in 1980 and was most and was director of Renault’s sponsibility for Fiat Group recently director of the third- small-car program. Automobiles’ six brands – generation Laguna. Stephen Norman, a British Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Fiat Corporate resources direc- citizen, is senior vice presi- Professional LCVs, Lancia tor Christian Esteve, 58, dent of global marketing at and Maserati – plus heavy joined Renault’s finance de- the French carmaker. truck maker Iveco and farm partment in 1987. He led ne- The 53-year-old joined Re- equipment maker Case New gotiations to buy Renault’s nault from Fiat Group Auto- Holland. Even before taking Romanian unit Dacia in the mobiles in September. over the brand, De Meo was playing a key role at Alfa. dadori media group. Currently, Kaban, 35 is “One of De Meo’s duties is Baravalle is leaving the head of exterior design at to take an out-of-the-box ap- auto industry at his own re- VW‚s premium brand Audi. proach to Alfa’s US return,” quest, people familiar with A native of Slovakia, Kaban Fiat group CEO Sergio Mar- the matter told ANE. joined Audi in 2003 from VW chionne told Automotive News where he was responsible for Europe last week. Luca Ciferri developing the design of the Alfa resumes sales in the Bugatti Veyron supercar. US in 2009. It exited the mar- Manske work on new ket in 1995. tasks for VW group design De Meo faces a big chal- Bugatti’s Kaban head Walter de’ Silva, Skoda lenge. Alfa’s 2010 sales goal is moves to Skoda said in a statement. 300,000 cars, up from an es- Manske was responsible for timated 152,000 this year. Jozef Kaban will be the new the design of the second-gen- Baravalle will stay with the head of design at Skoda. eration Superb large car, which company until January, at Kaban will succeed Jens will be unveiled at the Geneva which time he will become Manske who will move to a new auto show in March. CEO of Einaudi, a book pub- post at Skoda parent Volkswa- lisher owned by Italy’s Mon- gen group on February 1. Staff report