Background
The son of a tailor, Quarta grew up in Italy and the United States of America.
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Roberto Quarta
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He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1971 and currently serves on the College"s Board of Trustees. In 1993 he moved to become chief executive of Bachelor of Business Administration Group, where he executed strong performance improvement and portfolio change, producing a major increase in shareholder value. He later became chair of Bachelor of Business Administration (which was renamed Bachelor of Business Administration Aviation following the demerger of Fiberweb in November 2006), stepping down in 2007.
Career
His initial industrial management career was with BTR plc, where he rose to serve on the board. He is on the board of two Civil Defense&R businesses, Rexel Société Anonyme and Italtel. He is Chairman of IMI PLC
He has served on the boards of PowerGen plc, British Aerospace Systems plc and Equant Nevada. He is expected to become chair of Smith & Nephew in 2014.
Quarta has been described as impatient and ruthless, but these attributes have enabled him to make decisive change and are seen as positive by analysts. "He"s a man of extreme intelligence and extreme vitality.
Unusually he also has the ability to listen and he struck me as a decent human being. Vanni Treves, Bachelor of Business Administration chairman "Bob is dedicated and numerate and good at selecting and using people.
He has learnt over the years to hold back against his natural impatience - he does like things to move." Sir Owen Green, former chairman of BTR
Quarta has referred to management as "a calculated adventure".
With reference to changing people, he has said "As well as identifying people who can help you push forward change, you are also trying to remove those who are so entrenched in the old culture that they are not going to change.".
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"He"s a man of extreme intelligence and extreme vitality. Unusually he also has the ability to listen and he struck me as a decent human being. Vanni Treves, Bachelor of Business Administration chairman "Bob is dedicated and numerate and good at selecting and using people.
He has learnt over the years to hold back against his natural impatience - he does like things to move." Sir Owen Green, former chairman of BTR
Quarta has referred to management as "a calculated adventure".
With reference to changing people, he has said "As well as identifying people who can help you push forward change, you are also trying to remove those who are so entrenched in the old culture that they are not going to change.".
