The Board of Directors of Stellantis has formalized the appointment of Antonio Filosa as CEO Starting from 23 June 2025. The communication arrives while Stellantis faces a less brilliant phase than expected.
Philosa Thus takes the place of Carlos Tavareswho left the assignment in December, after a three -year period marked by a deep internal reorganization and a slowdown in performance. The reasons were not commented in detail, but the choice matured at the end of a demanding cycle, not without operational and industrial pressures.
Now it is up to an Italian manager to continue on that track, with the responsibility of orienting the company in a very delicate phase.
The career in Fiat and FCA
Antonio Filosa set foot in Fiat in the 1999 And since then he has never stopped. Engineer of the Polytechnic of Milan with MBA Brazilian, he built a solid international career. He managed Latin America for FCA and then for Stellantis, bringing Fiat to the top of Brazilian sales and closely following the growth of the Jeep plant in Pernambuco.
In 2023 he climbed to Summit of the Jeep brandand in the meantime he has assumed the operational responsibility of North America.
From January 2025 he has also been Chief Quality Officer. The promotion to CEO comes at the end of an internal path consistent with the professional trajectory followed so far, and was among the most popular names for the succession of Tavares, in line with the operational line that Stellantis decided to carry on.
CHANGE AT THE SUPER STARNIS STEP after Carlos Tavares
Carlos Tavares left Stellantis in December, closing a season that began with the merger between FCA and PSA and continued with the construction of the group’s industrial and strategic system.
Three years after the departure, and with Numbers in sharp decline in 2024 (revenues at -17% and net profit to 5.5 billion, less 70%), the handover has become inevitable.
John Elkann he publicly thanked Tavares e led the internal selection which led to the choice of Antonio Filosa. The new management will enter office in late June, together with a new managerial team that will have to move more agile.
The plan: more focus on the USA, less invented cars
Filosa clarified that you will work on few axes, but fundamental for the group: attention to the customer, strong brands, less complexity and more speeds on innovation. The priority remains Return to acceptable marginswith a fixed eye on the United States, where Stellantis is played a lot in terms of sales, profitability and stability of its industrial structure, also in light of fierce competition and a less predictable regulatory and tariff climate.
There Reduction of stocksdescended to 304,000 vehicles at the end of 2024 compared to the internal targets, was the first concrete signal of operational intervention.
The new management will continue to use The Plan Dare Forward 2030 as a reference structure, while maintaining a more pragmatic approach Also on the energy transition, which remains an open front, to be faced with credible and compatible operational choices with industrial profitability, avoiding vague formulas or promises not supported by numbers.
