It is hard to believe for his employees that former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne died one year ago.
FCA Chair John Elkann issued a statement on the one-year anniversary of Marchionne's untimely death on July 25, 2018.
"A year after Sergio Marchionne's passing, the example he left us is just as strong and alive in all of us," said Elkann. "The human values of responsibility and openness, of which he was always the most ardent champion, continue to live in all our companies. The culture of excellence, both in our results and in how we reach those results, is an integral part of each and every one of them."
Marchionne was in intensive care at a hospital in Switzerland for almost a week after suffering complications from shoulder surgery.
He is credited for turning around Fiat and Chrysler and saving the Windsor Assembly Plant.
"We will be eternally grateful to him for showing us, by example, that the only thing that really matters is never settling for mediocrity and always striving to change things for the better, for the benefit of society and the future, never for oneself," Elkann said. "Today some of us remember the enlightened leader, some the man, and some the friend but we all undoubtedly remember him with the deepest affection."
Marchionne attended the University of Windsor and called his years there among the best of his life.
He was 66.
