Antony Sheriff
Antony Sheriff (born 1963 in Switzerland) is an American and Italian businessman and is the Executive Chairman of luxury motor yacht manufacturer, Princess Yachts. Early life and education Sheriff attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, obtaining both a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in engineering before going on to work at Chrysler. He then obtained his M.S. in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management while contributing to “The Machine that Changed the World” (Financial Times “Book of the Year” in 1990). Early career Following his graduation from M.I.T., Sheriff worked for McKinsey and Company as a strategic management consultant. In 1995, he joined Fiat Auto in Italy and soon after became Executive Director of Product Development for all Fiat, Lancia and Alfa Romeo cars and commercial vehicles. Sheriff was promoted to the position of Vice President of Marketing for Fiat in 2002, shortly before moving to McLaren Automotive in Britain as managing director in January 2003. McLaren Automotive McLaren hired Sheriff to launch the SLR for Mercedes Benz and subsequently build a stand-alone McLaren road car brand. Sheriff was responsible for managing all aspects of the company's road car business. He launched the SLR into production in 2003