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Lasorda, Penske launch venture fund for tech startups
DETROIT -- Tom LaSorda , the former CEO of Chrysler Corp. and Fisker Automotive Inc. , has started a new limited partnership private venture capital …
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Fisker without Fisker: What's next?
… giving authority to more seasoned production and engineering executives. The CEO job first went to former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda in December 2011, then to Chevrolet Volt architect Tony Posawatz in August 2012. Jon Bereisa, CEO of consulting firm …
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Henrik Fisker quits Fisker Automotive in dispute with management
… season. Henrik Fisker relinquished the CEO role in February 2012, when the company hired former Chrysler Corp. CEO Tom LaSorda to take that position. LaSorda left in August when Posawatz was hired. Fisker remained executive chairman . In that …
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Henrik Fisker resigns as executive chairman of Fisker Automotive
… season. Henrik Fisker relinquished the CEO role in February 2012, when the company hired former Chrysler Corp. CEO Tom LaSorda to take that position. LaSorda left in August when Posawatz was hired. Fisker remained executive chairman. In that …
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Zetsche's next term turns on Mercedes passing BMW
… in him from former colleagues. "If there is anyone who can lead Daimler to future success, it's Dieter," said Tom LaSorda , who worked side by side with him when Zetsche led Chrysler from 2000 to 2005, when it was part of Daimler. He is …
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Wrestling a Wrangler dilemma
… creative solution Toledo Supplier Park is configured as it is out of necessity. In 2003, former DaimlerChrysler executive Tom LaSorda needed a plant to build a four-door Wrangler. But he had a $900 million problem: His employer didn't want to …
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Fisker hires former GM marketing chief Ewanick
… former Chevrolet Volt chief engineer who left GM in July and then became Fisker's CEO in August. Posawatz replaced Tom LaSorda , a former Chrysler CEO, as Fisker's chief executive. LaSorda held the job for less than six months. That move …
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Can car plastic be artful? Yes, says Klaus Busse, who helped revive Chrysler interiors after the Germans left
… wretchedness ... all cast in plastic worthy of a Chinese water pistol." Top executives, including former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda , endorsed Gilles' radical plan to have a design team that specialized solely on interiors. Most automakers have multiple …
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How manufacturing setbacks, nascent EV market doomed A123
… for redeveloping the site. Henrik Fisker shifted to executive chairman later that month and hired industry veteran Tom LaSorda as CEO. A123 announced more trouble with the batteries it was supplying to Fisker and other customers in March, saying …
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Sept. Winners, Losers (10/3/12)
… Pozen lots of boomers Chevy Volt has been the luxury plug in hybrid carmaker. Just five weeks now. And he says unlike Tom LaSorda who wants replaced he's in it for the long run. When when Tom was posed with the question as he went out to the markets …
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Fisker's Posawatz says partner talks 'on our radar screen'
… to bring the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid to market, as its CEO in mid-August, replacing former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda . During today's meeting with reporters, Posawatz was asked if Fisker eventually would be acquired. He replied that …
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AutoNation CEO calls Tesla Model S 'first-rate car'
… General Motors Co. engineer who led development of the plug-in Chevrolet Volt sedan, as its new CEO. He replaced Tom LaSorda , a former president of the predecessor of Chrysler Group LLC. LaSorda is remaining as an adviser to the company …
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New Fisker captain faces rough seas on Atlantic
… scramble to escape a desperate cash flow shortage and amid layoffs of 50 employees during the last six months. He succeeds Tom LaSorda , a former Chrysler CEO, less than six months after LaSorda took the helm of Fisker. The company gave no reason for …
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Fisker to recall Karmas for cooling fan defect linked to fire
… General Motors Co. engineer who led development of the plug-in Chevrolet Volt sedan, as its new CEO, replacing Tom LaSorda . Fisker's loss of its federal loan led the company in February to stop work at a Wilmington, Del., factory where …
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Fisker: It's not all bad news
… jeopardized without the government funds. The company also just changed CEOs for the second time in five months when Tom LaSorda handed the reins to Tony Posawatz, who recently retired from GM after leading the Chevrolet Volt program. Fisker said …
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Fisker seeks to raise more cash before new model arrives
… in Woodside, Calif. On Tuesday, Fisker named Tony Posawatz its third CEO this year, replacing former Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda who took over the helm in February. Posawatz left GM last month and had been line director for the Chevy Volt since …
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Toyota Raps 'Arm-Twisting' (8/14/12)
… the JPMorgan auto conference. In New York today. First thing I learned is that we've got an extraordinary. Team. Tom LaSorda is ulterior CEO a or automotive after less than six months on the job. The former Chrysler boss is being replaced by …
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Fisker replaces CEO LaSorda with former Volt boss Posawatz
LOS ANGELES -- Fisker Automotive has replaced CEO Tom LaSorda with former Chevrolet Volt boss Tony Posawatz. LaSorda, 58, a former chief executive of Chrysler, will step down effective …
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Ford Blames Supplier Flaw (7/24/12)
… yesterday's print issue of Automotive News. Finally first shift but notes turn 58 today it's this automotive CEO Tom LaSorda . And remember dot com latest industry news all line we'll see you tomorrow.
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Fisker says investor Leonardo DiCaprio to promote plug-in Karma
… cost federal loans awarded to make cars in Delaware. The company, co-founded by designer Henrik Fisker, named Tom LaSorda , a former CEO of the predecessor of Chrysler Group LLC, its CEO in February. Fisker has delivered more than 1,000 …
