Toyota City, Japan, April 28, 2021―Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced today that it intends to implement changes to its organizational structure and senior professional/senior management employees as described below effective June 1, 2021 and member of the board of directors and operating officer changes effective on the date of the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting in June.

  1. Organizational changes and Senior Professional/Senior Management Employee Changes Effective June 1

In 2018, Toyota announced its intention to transform from an automotive company into a mobility company. Under the common understanding that everyone lives on the same planet, Toyota takes action from the perspective of "home planet," above and beyond the concepts of "hometown" and "home country" that the automotive industry has long continued its business in. The current working generation is responsible for bequeathing this beautiful home to the next generation, as a place where people can live with peace of mind. Under this perspective, Toyota has the "human-centered" philosophy that technology should contribute to people's happiness and health. By utilizing the strength it has cultivated through "monozukuri (manufacturing)", and by incorporating further technological innovations that expand the possibilities of mobility as it responds to CASE, Toyota seeks to provide services that make freedom of mobility available to all people. The company also aims through its businesses to contribute to the realization of SDGs; among the 17 SDGs, reducing CO2 emissions is a global issue and, in order to achieve this, it is vital that electrification―the "E" of "CASE"―is implemented on a global scale.

Countries around the world are issuing declarations stating their aim to be carbon neutral by 2050. To make carbon neutrality a reality in the automobile industry, it is essential that energy policies that incorporate renewable energy and charging infrastructure be integrated with industrial policies that include purchase subsidies, supplier support, and battery recycling systems. Coordinated efforts by various stakeholders, such as governments and industry groups, are also necessary. In the global expansion of its business, TMC, while consulting with the governments of various countries on how to improve environments for promoting electrification, plans to advance an electrification strategy that contributes to the reduction of CO2 throughout the entire lifecycle of its vehicles. Also, to gain the understanding of more of its stakeholders, TMC intends to enhance its information disclosure, by conducting a review and information release within this year concerning whether its external affairs activities are consistent with the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement.

Toward achieving carbon neutrality, TMC is strengthening company-wide efforts to further accelerate its reduction of CO2 emissions. As part of this effort, the company intends to consolidate the resources of environmental technology development that is being carried out in various areas, including workplaces that are responsible for advanced development, and establish the CN Advanced Engineering Development Center. The CN Advanced Engineering Development Center is to be responsible for, among others, technological development related to innovative improvement of electrified vehicle efficiency, advancement of new battery development, promotion of the utilization of renewable energy such as sunlight, and facilitation of various methods to utilize carbon-neutral fuels.

By further deepening coordination within the Toyota Group and cooperation among members of industry, academia, and government in Japan and overseas, TMC intends to press forward in accelerating its engagement in challenges to achieve carbon neutrality.

Organizational changes

Organizational changes

Personnel changes due to the above organizational changesSenior professionals/senior management (Senior General Manager level and above)

Name Current New
  Keiji Kaita
  • Powertrain Company (Executive Vice President)
  • GAZOO Racing Company (in charge of HEV development)
CN Advanced Engineering Development Center (President)
  Mitsumasa Yamagata
  • Vehicle Development Center
    Powertrain Planning & System Development Field (Senior General Manager)
  • Powertrain Company (Executive Vice President)
    Powertrain System Development Field (Senior General Manager)
  • Vehicle Development Center
    Powertrain Planning & System Development Field (Senior General Manager)
  • Powertrain Company (Executive Vice President)
    Powertrain System Development Field (Senior General Manager)
  • GAZOO Racing Company (in charge of HEV development)
  Akihiro Yamanaka
  • Powertrain Company
    Advanced Engineering Development Field (Senior General Manager)
    Higashifuji Technical Center (General Manager)
  • GAZOO Racing Company (in charge of unit)
  • Powertrain Company
    Advanced Engineering Development Field (Senior General Manager)
    Higashifuji Technical Center (General Manager)
  • CN Advanced Engineering Development Center
    In charge of energy management (Chief Project Leader)
  • GAZOO Racing Company (in charge of unit)

  1. Other Senior Professional/Senior Management Employee Changes Effective June 1

Senior professionals/senior management (Senior General Manager level and above)

Name Current New
  Yoshikazu Saeki Mid-size Vehicle Company
MSZ Design Field (Senior General Manager)
Mid-size Vehicle Company
In charge of SUV business development (Chief Project Leader)
  Ken Koibuchi Advanced R&D and Engineering Company
Advanced Safety System Field (Senior General Manager)
  • Advanced R&D and Engineering Company (Fellow)
  • Vehicle Development Center (Fellow)
  • Mid-size Vehicle Company (Fellow)
  Michael Sweers
  • Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
  • Mid-size Vehicle Company (Executive Vice President)
Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

  1. Member of the board of directors and operating officer changes effective on the date of the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting in June

New Operating Officer

Name Current New
  Yumi Otsuka
  • Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer
  • Sustainability Management Dept. (Fellow)
  • Chief Sustainability Officer
  • Sustainability Management Dept.

Member of the Board of Directors and Operating Officers' areas of responsibility

☆ Newly appointed
Name Current New
  Shigeru Hayakawa Chief Sustainability Officer Chief Privacy Officer
  Keiji Yamamoto
  • Chief Information & Security Officer
  • Chief Software Officer
  • Digital Transformation Promotion Dept.
  • Information Systems Group
  • Connected Company (President)
  • Chief Information & Security Officer
  • Chief Product Integration Officer
  • Digital Transformation Promotion Dept.
  • Information Systems Group
  • Connected Company (President)
Yumi Otsuka
  • Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer
  • Sustainability Management Dept. (Fellow)
  • Chief Sustainability Officer
  • Sustainability Management Dept.
Sustainable Development Goals

Toyota Motor Corporation works to develop and manufacture innovative, safe and high-quality products and services that create happiness by providing mobility for all. We believe that true achievement comes from supporting our customers, partners, employees, and the communities in which we operate. Since our founding over 80 years ago in 1937, we have applied our Guiding Principles in pursuit of a safer, greener and more inclusive society. Today, as we transform into a mobility company developing connected, automated, shared and electrified technologies, we also remain true to our Guiding Principles and many of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals to help realize an ever-better world, where everyone is free to move.

SDGs Initiatives
https://global.toyota/en/sustainability/sdgs/

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