TMC Announces Changes to Board Members, Executive Structure, and Senior Professional/Senior Management

Toyota City, Japan, June 15, 2022―Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) today assigned members of the board of directors at its ordinary general shareholders’ meeting, and appointed representative directors and directors with special titles at a meeting of the board of directors following the ordinary general shareholders’ meeting. In addition, effective July 1, 2022, TMC will make changes to its executive structure and senior professional/senior management employee assignments as described below.

New Member of the Board of Directors

NameCurrent
Masahiko MaedaOperating Officer
Concurrent operating officer

Member of the Board of Directors Resigning Post

Name
Koji Kobayashi
Continuing operating officer

New Audit and Supervisory Board Member

NameCurrent
George Olcott
  • Outside Director, Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
  • Vice President & Professor, Shizenkan University Graduate School of Leadership & Innovation etc.

Audit and Supervisory Board Member Resigning Post

Name
Nobuyuki Hirano

Board Members

  1. Members of the Board of Directors

*Newly appointed
NameTitle
Takeshi UchiyamadaChairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
Shigeru HayakawaVice Chairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
Akio Toyoda*1President, Member of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
James Kuffner*1Member of the Board of Directors
Kenta Kon*1Member of the Board of Directors
*Masahiko Maeda*1Member of the Board of Directors
Ikuro Sugawara*2Member of the Board of Directors
Sir Philip Craven*2Member of the Board of Directors
Teiko Kudo*2Member of the Board of Directors
*1Concurrent operating officer
*2External board member

  1. Members of the Audit and Supervisory Board

*Newly appointed
NameTitle
Haruhiko KatoAudit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
Masahide YasudaAudit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
Katsuyuki OguraAudit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
Yoko WakeAudit and Supervisory Board Member
Hiroshi OzuAudit and Supervisory Board Member
*George OlcottAudit and Supervisory Board Member

Changes in areas of responsibility for the executive fellow

NameCurrentNew
Shigeki TomoyamaExecutive Fellow
  • Executive Fellow
  • Japan Sales Business Group (Chief Officer)

New senior professional/senior management

NameCurrent
Takami KatoPurchasing Group

Supplychain Strategy Div. (General Manager)

Senior professional/senior management

NameCurrent
Yasuhiko SatoJapan Sales Business Group (Chief Officer)

Changes in areas of responsibility for senior professionals/senior management

*Newly appointed
NameCurrentNew
Yoji MatsuyamaPurchasing Group (Deputy Chief Officer)General Administration & Human Resources Group (Deputy Chief Officer)
*Takami KatoPurchasing Group

Supplychain Strategy Div. (General Manager)
Purchasing Group (Deputy Chief Officer)
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.

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