Adrian Walsh
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Adrian Conrad Walsh is an Irish
businessman who was educated and began his professional career in Ireland, and is the current CEO of Fiat Group Automobiles Ireland Limited. Walsh was handpicked by Fiat S.P.A.
CEO, Sergio Marchionne
in December 2007 and tasked with cleaning up Fiats business's in Ireland and returning the Irish company back to profitability.
Walsh is an alumnus of Belvedere College
and studied for a degree with the London School of Economics
.
One of Walsh's more visible changes in Fiat Group Ireland has been the move of the Headquarters to a new landmark building. He names the building Agnelli House, after the founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli
.
Walsh has been quoted many times in stating that he wants to highlight Fiats, Italian credentials as Italians are held in such a positive
light by the Irish and both cultures share many similarities.
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
businessman who was educated and began his professional career in Ireland, and is the current CEO of Fiat Group Automobiles Ireland Limited. Walsh was handpicked by Fiat S.P.A.
Fiat
FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...
CEO, Sergio Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne is an international manager best known for his turnaround of the Italian automotive group Fiat and, more recently, for managing the US automotive group Chrysler from bankruptcy to profitability...
in December 2007 and tasked with cleaning up Fiats business's in Ireland and returning the Irish company back to profitability.
Walsh is an alumnus of Belvedere College
Belvedere College
Belvedere College SJ is a private secondary school for boys located on Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Ireland. It is also known as St. Francis Xavier's College....
and studied for a degree with the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
.
One of Walsh's more visible changes in Fiat Group Ireland has been the move of the Headquarters to a new landmark building. He names the building Agnelli House, after the founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli was an Italian entrepreneur, who founded Fiat car manufacturing in 1899.-Early life:The son of Edoardo Agnelli and Aniceta Frisetti, he was born in Villar Perosa, a small town near Pinerolo, Piedmont, still the main home and burial place of the Agnelli family...
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Walsh has been quoted many times in stating that he wants to highlight Fiats, Italian credentials as Italians are held in such a positive
Positive
Positive is a property of positivity and may refer to:- Mathematics and science :* Converging lens or positive lens, in optics* Plus sign, the sign "+" used to indicate a positive number* Positive , a polarity of electrical charge...
light by the Irish and both cultures share many similarities.