Toyota City, Japan, March 22, 2023―Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced today that it intends to implement changes to its executive structure and senior professional/senior management employees effective April 1, 2023. Changes to its Board of Directors and Audit and Supervisory Board Members effective the date of its 119th Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting are also as described below.

  1. Executive changes effective April 1

New Executive Fellow

Name Current
  Takeshi Uchiyamada*1*2 Chairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
*1 Continuing as a Member of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
*2 In charge Advisor of Advanced Engineering Development for the entire Toyota Group as Executive Fellow

Executive Fellow structure effective April 1

*denotes newly appointed
Name Current New
* Takeshi Uchiyamada
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
  • Member of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
  • Executive Fellow
  Mitsuru Kawai
  • Executive Fellow (Oyaji)
  • Executive Fellow (Oyaji)
* Koji Kobayashi
  • Operating Officer (Banto)
  • Executive Fellow (Banto)
  • Chief Risk Officer
  • Chief Compliance Officer
  Shigeki Terashi
  • Executive Fellow
  • Executive Fellow
  Shigeki Tomoyama
  • Executive Fellow
  • Japan Sales Business Group (Chief Officer)
  • Executive Fellow
  • Japan Sales Business Group (Chief Officer)
  Gill A. Pratt
  • Chief Scientist and Executive Fellow for Research
  • Toyota Research Institute, Inc. (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Chief Scientist and Executive Fellow for Research
  • Toyota Research Institute, Inc. (Chief Executive Officer)

  1. Senior Professional/Senior Management (Senior General Manager level and above), effective April 1

New Senior Professional/Senior Management (Senior General Manager)

Name Current title
  Hiroshi Nanbu Business Planning Div. (General Manager)

Changes in areas of responsibility for Senior Professional/Senior Management (Senior General Manager)

*denotes newly appointed
Name Current New
* Hiroshi Nanbu
  • Business Planning Div. (General Manager)
  • Parts Operations Div.
  • BR Value Chain Business Planning Dept.
  • Business Planning Div. (concurrently General Manager)
  • Sales & Operation Planning Div.
  • KD Business Planning Div.
  • Mobility Business Planning Div.

  1. Changes to members of the Board of Directors and the Audit and Supervisory Board Members following the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting

The formal appointment of members of the Board of Directors and the Audit and Supervisory Board Members will be formalized after approval at the 119th Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting. The formal assignment of board members with specific titles, and the appointment of board members with the legal status to represent TMC (representative directors), will be made at the board of directors meeting following the 119th Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting. The resignation of board members leaving their current posts will become official on the day of the 119th Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting.

New Members of the Board of Directors

Name Current Title
  Masahiko Oshima
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc., Deputy President and Executive Officer (Representative Executive Officer)
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Director and Deputy President (Representative Director)
  Emi Osono School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University Business School, Professor

Member of the Board of Directors Resigning Post

Name Current Title
  Teiko Kudo Member of the Board of Directors

New Audit and Supervisory Board Members

Name Current Title
  Takeshi Shirane Toyota Motor East Japan, Inc., Chairman of the Board (Representative Director)
  Catherine O'Connell CATHERINE O'CONNELL LAW, Principal

Audit and Supervisory Board Members Resigning Posts

Name Current Title
  Haruhiko Kato Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
  Hiroshi Ozu Audit and Supervisory Board Member

New Substitute Audit and Supervisory Board Member

Name Current Title
  Maoko Kikuchi
  • MITSUI-SOKO HOLDINGS Co., Ltd., Outside Director
  • Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Outside Director

For reference: Members of the Board of Directors and members (candidates) of the Audit and Supervisory Board following the 119th Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting

Members of the Board of Directors

*Newly appointed
Name Title
  Akio Toyoda Chairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
  Shigeru Hayakawa Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
* Koji Sato*1 President, Member of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
* Hiroki Nakajima*1 Member of the Board of Directors
* Yoichi Miyazaki*1 Member of the Board of Directors
* Simon Humphries*1 Member of the Board of Directors
  Ikuro Sugawara*2 Member of the Board of Directors
  Sir Philip Craven*2 Member of the Board of Directors
* Masahiko Oshima*2 Member of the Board of Directors
* Emi Osono*2 Member of the Board of Directors
*1 Concurrent operating officer
*2 External board member

Members of the Audit and Supervisory Board

*Newly appointed
Name Title
  Masahide Yasuda Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
  Katsuyuki Ogura Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
* Takeshi Shirane Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
  George Olcott Audit and Supervisory Board Member
  Ryuji Sakai Audit and Supervisory Board Member
* Catherine O'Connell Audit and Supervisory Board Member
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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