Citroen CEO Vincent Cobee Steps Down, Thierry Koskas Appointed To Place

There’s one thing of a shakeup taking place throughout the pond with Citroen. The French automaker can have a brand new boss as of March 1, with Thierry Koskas taking on as CEO. The present head of Citroen, Vincent Cobee, is stepping away to “pursue private initiatives exterior of the corporate” in response to a press launch from Stellantis.

In his new CEO place, Koskas will likely be performing double obligation. He is presently the chief gross sales and advertising officer for Stellantis, and he’ll proceed in that position whereas heading up the Citroen model. Citroen is certainly one of quite a few automakers belonging to the Stellantis conglomerate; Koskas will proceed reporting on to Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares.

“I’ve full confidence in Thierry Koskas to hold out these strategic and worthwhile missions for our firm, in order that Stellantis can prepared the ground the market strikes, whereas creating the enduring Citroen model,” mentioned Tavares in an announcement on the transition. “Thierry’s twin duty is a part of a logic of cross-functionality, as is already the case for different EVPs inside the Stellantis management workforce. I want to thank Vincent Cobee for having set the positioning of Citroen inside the Stellantis model portfolio and need him the very best in his future endeavors.”

Cobee’s time as Citroen’s CEO was comparatively brief, having accepted the position in January 2020. He migrated to Citroen after a prolonged profession with Nissan, the place he led the reformed Datsun effort in 2010 that in the end failed. Previous to Citroen, Cobee was an govt director at Mitsubishi.

Koskas joined Peugeot S.A. in 2019 to supervise gross sales for the quite a few manufacturers underneath the Peugeot umbrella, together with Citroen. His earlier automotive profession included prolonged tenures at rival Renault, the place each he and Tavares labored with Carlos Ghosn, former Renault boss who was ousted from his CEO place at Nissan in 2018 over alleged accounting discrepancies, amongst different issues.