Nov. 30, 2016

TMC Announces Executive and Personnel Changes

 

Toyota City, Japan, November 30, 2016―Tomorrow, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will make changes to executives' areas of responsibility, as well as personnel changes at the sub-executive managerial level.

  1. Changes to executives' areas of responsibility
(effective December 1, 2016)
Name Current New
Akio Toyoda ― President
EV Business Planning Dept. (chief officer)
Mitsuhisa Kato Executive Vice President
Frontier Research Center (chief officer)
Executive Vice President
  • Frontier Research Center (chief officer)
  • EV Business Planning Dept. (chief officer)
Shigeki Terashi
Executive Vice President
  • Strategic Top Executive Meeting Office (secretary general)
  • Corporate Strategy Div. (chief officer)
  • Research Div. (chief officer)
Executive Vice President
  • Strategic Top Executive Meeting Office (secretary general)
  • EV Business Planning Dept. (chief officer)
  • Corporate Strategy Div. (chief officer)
  • Research Div. (chief officer)
Koki Konishi Managing Officer
Mid-size Vehicle Company (executive vice president)		 Managing Officer
General Administration & Human Resources Group
  1. Changes to executive general managers' areas of responsibility
(effective November 1, 2016)
Name Current New
Shinichi Yasui
Mid-size Vehicle Company
  • ZS (chief officer), ZV (chief officer),
    ZD (chief officer), ZE (chief officer),
    ZF (chief officer)
Mid-size Vehicle Company
  • ZS (chief officer), ZV (chief officer),
    ZD (chief officer), ZE (chief officer),
    ZF (chief officer, concurrent chief engineer)
  1. Personnel changes at the sub-executive managerial level
(effective November 1, 2016)
Name Current New
Kouji Toyoshima MSZ, Mid-size Vehicle Company (chief engineer)
  • MSZ, Mid-size Vehicle Company (chief engineer)
  • EV Business Planning Dept. (preliminary organization) (general manager)
(effective November 14, 2016)
Name Current New
Kenichi Komuro Temporary External Transfer from
Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd.		 EV Business Planning Dept. (preliminary organization) (project general manager)
(effective December 1, 2016)
Name Current New
Kouji Toyoshima
  • MSZ, Mid-size Vehicle Company (chief engineer)
  • EV Business Planning Dept. (preliminary organization) (general manager)
 EV Business Planning Dept.
(general manager, concurrent chief engineer)
Kenichi Komuro EV Business Planning Dept. (preliminary organization) (project general manager) EV Business Planning Dept. (project general manager)