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Ryan Hogg

How Darwinism made and broke ‘samurai’ Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares

Carlos Tavares, chief executive officer of Stellantis NV, during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Paris Motor Show in Paris, France, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (Credit: Nathan Laine—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Carlos Tavares has run out of road at Stellantis just as the golden handshake of a 2026 retirement package started to appear on the horizon.

Tavares fell on his own sword after what Stellantis’s independent director, Henri de Castries, described as “different views” emerging in the company’s boardroom, leaving the 66-year-old Portuguese boss’s position untenable.

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