Carlos Tavares, Chief Operating Officer, Renault, joined the company in 1981 as a test-driving engineer at the Aubevoye test center. He went onto become the head of ground link engineering in 1985. After this he moved up the ladder putting to use his technical and managerial skills when he moved to Nissan as Program Director and finally was back with Renault as the Chief Operating Officer on July 1, 2011.
All through his career Tavares has enjoyed racing and this weekend he put his skills to good use driving the stunning Alpine A110-50 on the Monaco street circuit.
Carlos Tavares and Alain Prost during the Renault Alpine A110-50 premiere at Monaco