Following Marti Eulberg's resignation two days ago, Raffaele Fusilli, the company's global commercial director, who previously was Sales Director at Ferrari, has been appointed today to fill the role on a temporary basis.

Maserati has named its commercial director Raffaele Fusilli as the new temporary President and CEO for North America as the continual turnover of executives from this role continues unabated with the Marti Eulberg earlier this week after just 11 months in the job.

Eulberg, the President and chief executive of Maserati North America, resigned on Tuesday "to pursue other opportunities." Eulberg, who has 20 years worth of experience working for prestige automotive brands in the United States, including Jaguar, Volvo and BMW, was appointed President and CEO of Maserati North America last May with a brief to report directly to Maserati's Modena-based Commercial Director Raffaele Fusilli. She in turn replaced industry veteran Jim Selwa who left the Maserati North America top job three months before her appointment after just under three years in the position.

Following Eulberg's resignation two days ago, Raffaele Fusilli, the company's global commercial director, who previously was Sales Director at Ferrari, was appointed today to fill the role on a temporary basis and he will be assisted by other managers in the North American operation.

"We deeply value the concrete effort of Marti and the MNA team," Fusilli said today. "During a very challenging time, Maserati was one of the very few automotive players in North America to post a positive result in terms of sales in 2008, thus contributing to the second consecutive record year achieved by the company worldwide."