The sale of Iveco to the Indian company Tata provokes a diaspora of managers who return to the group’s former parent company, CNH, a manufacturer of agricultural and construction machinery listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The last release is … Angel Rodríguez Lagunilladirector of all factories of the industrial vehicle manufacturer and president of Iveco Spain since October 2020.
Rodríguez Lagunilla will become responsible for the CNH factories that manage the Case and New Holland brands from 2026 and will be replaced by Manuel Mansilla.
Rodriguez Lagunilla was born in Valladolid in 1975 and studied industrial technical engineering at the university in his hometown. In 1998, he joined Iveco at the Valladolid plant where he held various positions until 2008, when he took over management of the Iveco plant in Brescia, where medium trucks are produced.
Two years later he returned to Spain as director of the Valladolid factory and in 2011 he assumed management of the factory, then called CNH Industrialin Madrid, the only one in Spain to produce heavy goods vehicles.
In 2015, he was appointed head of commercial vehicle and bus production at CNH Industrial for the EMEA region and later global head of commercial and special vehicle production. With the split of CNH and the birth of the Iveco group, he assumed the position of Chief Manufacturing Officer of the new group. Lagunilla is currently one of the members of ANFAC.
Industrial relay
Iveco was separated from the CNH Industrial group on January 1, 2022 and has since operated as an independent company until July 30, when it announced its sale to India’s Tata Motors for 3.8 billion euros.
Previously, the defense division that the Italian company Leonardo had bought for 1.7 billion had been segregated. The operation was approved by the European Commission on November 14. In March 2024, the Iveco group had already sold the firefighting vehicles division Magirus.
The German executive Gerrit Marx (1975), current CEO of CNH This transfer of leaders is essential. Marx was CEO of Iveco during its integration with CNH and subsequent split and maintains a close relationship with his previous team. In July 2024, he handed over his functions at Iveco to the Swede Olof Persson (60 years old) to become president of CNH. Persson is expected to leave Iveo due to his contract ending in June.
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