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
Name
Current
Masahiko Maeda
Operating Officer
Concurrent operating officer
Member of the Board of Directors Resigning Post
Name
Koji Kobayashi
Continuing operating officer
New Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Name
Current
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
Members of the Board of Directors
*Newly appointed
Name
Title
Takeshi Uchiyamada
Chairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
Shigeru Hayakawa
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
Akio Toyoda*1
President, Member of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
James Kuffner*1
Member of the Board of Directors
Kenta Kon*1
Member of the Board of Directors
*
Masahiko Maeda*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
Teiko Kudo*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
Haruhiko Kato
Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
Masahide Yasuda
Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
Katsuyuki Ogura
Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
Yoko Wake
Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Hiroshi Ozu
Audit and Supervisory Board Member
*
George Olcott
Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Changes in areas of responsibility for the executive fellow
Name
Current
New
Shigeki Tomoyama
Executive Fellow
Executive Fellow
Japan Sales Business Group (Chief Officer)
New senior professional/senior management
Name
Current
Takami Kato
Purchasing Group
Supplychain Strategy Div. (General Manager)
Senior professional/senior management
Name
Current
Yasuhiko Sato
Japan Sales Business Group (Chief Officer)
Changes in areas of responsibility for senior professionals/senior management
*Newly appointed
Name
Current
New
Yoji Matsuyama
Purchasing Group (Deputy Chief Officer)
General Administration & Human Resources Group (Deputy Chief Officer)
*
Takami Kato
Purchasing Group
Supplychain Strategy Div. (General Manager)
Purchasing Group (Deputy Chief Officer)
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.
