{"id":6314,"date":"2021-10-27T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.italdesign.it\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:52:12","slug":"italdesign-appoints-antonio-casu-as-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.italdesign.it\/en\/italdesign-appoints-antonio-casu-as-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Italdesign appoints Antonio Casu as new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Antonio Casu will succeed Joerg Astalosch in the position of CEO of Italdesign as of today, Wednesday, October 27th, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAntonio Casu is for us the ideal person to lead our company, not only because of his knowledge of the team and our customers,&#8221; explains Dirk Grosse-Loheide, President of Italdesign, adding: &#8220;but especially because Antonio has built his career largely within Italdesign. He has progressively held positions of increasing prestige and responsibility in various areas of the technical direction, gaining a 360 \u00b0 experience within the Group during his years of work in Germany. All these factors characterize him as the best candidate for the role of CEO.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I am truly honored by the trust that our president Mr. Grosse-Loheide, Joerg Astalosch and the whole Italdesign have placed in me,&#8221; added the new CEO Antonio Casu. \u201cI accept this new challenge with all the passion and professionalism that I have always placed as a personal stimulus for my work in our beautiful company. 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