Jun. 17, 2011

TMC Announces Executive and Organizational Changes

 

Toyota City, Japan, June 17, 2011―Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces executive, corporate-auditor and organizational changes today, as outlined below.

1. Executives

1) Board of Directors
Name Title
Fujio Cho Chairman and representative director
Akio Toyoda President and representative director
Takeshi Uchiyamada Executive vice president and representative director
Yukitoshi Funo Executive vice president and representative director
Atsushi Niimi Executive vice president and representative director
Shinichi Sasaki Executive vice president and representative director
Satoshi Ozawa Executive vice president and representative director
Nobuyori Kodaira Director
Mamoru Furuhashi Director
Takahiko Ijichi Director
Yasumori Ihara Director

2) Corporate Auditors
Name Title
Yoichiro Ichimaru* Full-time corporate auditor
Masaki Nakatsugawa Full-time corporate auditor
Masahiro Kato* Full-time corporate auditor
Yoichi Morishita Corporate auditor
Akishige Okada Corporate auditor
Kunihiro Matsuo Corporate auditor
Yoko Wake* Corporate auditor
*Newly appointed

3) Senior Managing Officers
Name
Nobuyori Kodaira*1
Akira Sasaki
Mamoru Furuhashi*1
Tadashi Yamashina
Takahiko Ijichi*1
Masamoto Maekawa
Yasumori Ihara*1
Takahiro Iwase
 
Name
Yoshimasa Ishii
Takeshi Shirane
Mitsuhisa Kato
Masanao Tomozoe*2
Real C. Tanguay*2
Hirofumi Muta*2
*1Also serves as director; *2Promoted April 1, 2011
 

4) Managing Officers
Name
Shigeki Suzuki
Katsutada Masumoto
Shigeru Hayakawa
Hisayuki Inoue
Hiroji Onishi
Keiji Masui
Kenji Miura
Kiyotaka Ise
Didier Leroy
Hiroyuki Yokoyama
Koei Saga
Shigeki Terashi
Soichiro Okudaira
Hiroyuki Ochiai
Yasuo Kawada
Naoki Miyazaki
James E. Lentz
Yoshihiko Matsuda
Shunichi Konishi
Koichi Sugihara
 
Name
Kazuhiro Miyauchi
Satoru Mouri
Hiroyoshi Yoshiki
Osamu Nagata
Moritaka Yoshida
Yoichi Inoue
Steve St. Angelo
Johan van Zyl
Kunihiko Ogura
Kazuhiro Kobayashi
Kazuo Ohara
Shuichi Koyama
Shigeki Tomoyama
Satoshi Takae
Kazuya Inagaki
Tokuo Fukuichi
Shinji Kitada
Riki Inuzuka
Masahisa Nagata
 
As a result of the above changes, TMC now has 67 executives, as follows: one chairman; one president; five executive vice presidents; four directors; seven corporate auditors; 14 senior managing officers (including four who also serve as directors) and 39 managing officers.



2. Executives Resigning Their Posts



Directors
Katsuaki Watanabe (appointed as senior advisor)
Kazuo Okamoto (appointed as senior advisor)
Yoichiro Ichimaru (appointed as full-time corporate auditor)
Akira Okabe (appointed as executive advisor)
Shinzo Kobuki (appointed as advisor)
Iwao Nihashi (appointed as senior technical executive)
Tetsuo Agata (appointed as advisor)
Yoshimi Inaba (appointed as executive advisor)
Nampachi Hayashi (appointed as senior technical executive)
Corporate Auditors
Yoshikazu Amano (appointed as advisor)
Chiaki Yamaguchi (appointed as advisor)
Yoichi Kaya (appointed as advisor)
Managing Officers
Tatsuya Kaneko (appointed as advisor)
Takahiro Fujioka (appointed as advisor)
Yasushi Kohara (appointed as advisor)
Takuo Matsui (appointed as advisor)
Norihiko Arai (appointed as advisor)
Masahiro Kato (appointed as full-time corporate auditor)
Kenji Suzuki (appointed as advisor)
Mitsuhiro Sonoda (appointed as advisor)
Masashi Isogai (appointed as advisor)
Hiroshi Miyata (appointed as advisor)
Takuo Sasaki (appointed as advisor)

3. Executives' Areas of Responsibility

1) Executive Vice President
Name Former New
Shinichi Sasaki
- Business Development
- IT & ITS
- Information Systems
- Purchasing
- Customer Service Operations
- Quality
- Business Development
- IT
- Purchasing
- Japan Sales Business
- Customer Service
- Quality

2) Senior Managing Officers
Nobuyori Kodaira
- Corporate Planning Div. (chief officer)
- Environmental Affairs Div. (chief officer)
- IT & ITS Group
- Corporate Planning Div. (chief officer)
- Environmental Affairs Div. (chief officer)
- IT Group
Mitsuhisa Kato Product Development Group (chief officer) Product Planning Group (chief officer)

3) Managing Officers
Shigeru Hayakawa Public Affairs Div. (chief officer)
- Public Affairs Div. (chief officer)
- External Affairs Group (deputy chief officer)
Moritaka Yoshida
- Toyota Development Center 1 (general manager)
- Vehicle Control System Field (field general manager)
- Electronics Engineering Field (field general manager)
- Product Planning Group (deputy chief officer)
- Chief Safety Technology Officer
- Vehicle Control System Field (field general manager)
- Electronics Engineering Field (field general manager)
Shuichi Koyama
- Customer Service Operations Group
- Toyota Development Center 3 (general manager)
- Body Engineering Field (field general manager)
- Customer Service Operations Group
- Body Engineering Field (field general manager)
Shigeki Tomoyama
- Business Development Group (chief officer)
- IT & ITS Group (chief officer)
- Information Systems Group (chief officer)
- Business Development Group (chief officer)
- IT Group (chief officer)

Reference: Chief Quality Officers (unchanged)
Name Country/Region Executive Title
Steve St. Angelo North America Managing officer
Didier Leroy Europe Managing officer
Shinji Kitada China Managing officer
Takahiro Iwase Asia and Oceania Senior managing officer
Hisayuki Inoue Middle East, Africa and Latin America Managing officer

4. Organizational Changes



1) IT

The IT & ITS Group and the Information Systems Group were integrated to form the IT Group, and the Information Systems Field was created within the IT Group.
  Former   New
   
  IT & ITS Group   IT Group (Restructured)
  Information Systems Group    
      Information Systems Field (Newly established)
   
  Purpose
The IT & ITS Group and the Information Systems Group were merged to support globally integrated IT strategies and the development of systems.  Also, the Information Systems Field was created to carry out efficient IT investment globally and support the development of information systems based on rapid decision making that is closely linked to work sites.

2) Research & Development

Individual centers within the Product Development Group were eliminated.  The Product Development Group changed its name to the Product Planning Group, and the Product Development Management Division in the group was restructured as the Product Planning Division.
  Former   New
   
  Product Development Group   Product Planning Group (Name changed)
  Toyota Development Center 1   (Eliminated)
  Toyota Development Center 2   (Eliminated)
  Toyota Development Center 3   (Eliminated)
  Product Development Management Div.   Product Planning Div. (Restructured)
   
  Purpose
Individual centers were eliminated to enable the chief engineers to conduct vehicle development under the direct authority of the chief officer.

The Advanced CAE Division, directly under R&D Group 1, was transferred to the Vehicle Evaluation & Engineering Field of its controlling group, while the Battery Research Division, directly under R&D Group 2, was transferred to the Material Engineering Field of its controlling group.
  Former   New
   
  R&D Group 1 (direct control over)   R&D Group 1
      Vehicle Evaluation & Engineering Field
  Advanced CAE Div.   Advanced CAE Div. (Transferred)
   
  Former   New
   
  R&D Group 2 (direct control over)   R&D Group 2
      Material Engineering Field
  Battery Research Div.   Battery Research Div.
   
  Purpose
To enhance their degree of specialization and raise the pace of operations, the divisions were transferred to fields with which they have strong associations.

3) Customer Service

The name of the Service Parts Administration Division was changed to the Service Parts Engineering Administration Division
  Former   New
   
  Customer Service Operations Group   Customer Service Operations Group
  Service Parts Administration Div.   Service Parts Engineering Administration Div.
(Name changed)
   
  Purpose
The name was changed so that it would be easier to understand internally and externally and would better reflect the division's operations.

After the above changes, the number of TMC divisions will remain at 235.