Mark
McNabb will be appointed worldwide Commercial Director
of Maserati. McNabb, who is currently the President and
CEO of Maserati North America, will retain his present
position and will serve in both capacities.
McNabb, who has been serving as President and CEO of
Maserati North America since joining the Trident on June
1, 2009, in his new position will report to Harald
Wester, CEO of Maserati SpA. His new responsibility
could indicate a slow down in the ferocious turnover of
Maserati's North American CEOs, and comes as the Trident
brand is enjoying a very positive start to the year
stateside, albeit a run coming in relation to a
disastrous 2009 when it felt all the effects of being
one of the hardest-hit carmakers during the global
recession.
McNabb
joined Maserati last summer after thirteen months with
GM where he was responsible for sales and marketing
control of the carmaker's "premium channel", comprising
of the Cadillac, Hummer and Saab brands, in the U.S. and
Canada. Much of his year at GM was occupied with trying
to find buyers to offload the latter two brands as their
sales collapsed.
McNabb
arrived at GM after a second, year-long stint at Nissan
in the United States. Previously he had worked for
Nissan, as Vice President and General Manager of the
Nissan division of Nissan USA, after a long period at
its luxury niche Infiniti brand, where he was corporate
vice president of its global business unit. With two
decades at Nissan under his belt he left to join
Mercedes-Benz in 2005 as vice president of sales and
marketing when the Japanese firm moved its North
American headquarters from California to Nashville,
joining around half the sales and marketing staff in
quitting the company. Sales flattened out during his
absence and he quickly returned and was welcomed back to
Nissan in the summer of 2007 to take up his old position
again.
Raffaele Fusilli, who served as Commercial Director at
Maserati from 2007 to 2010, is leaving the company upon
request to pursue new professional challenges. He joined
Maserati from Ferrari.
