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.
- Executive changes effective April 1
New Executive Fellow
| Name | Current | |
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| Takeshi Uchiyamada*1*2 | Chairman of the Board of Directors (Representative Director) | |
| *1 | Continuing as a Member of the Board of Directors (Representative Director) |
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| *2 | In charge Advisor of Advanced Engineering Development for the entire Toyota Group as Executive Fellow |
Executive Fellow structure effective April 1
| Name | Current | New | |
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| * | Takeshi Uchiyamada |
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| Mitsuru Kawai |
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| * | Koji Kobayashi |
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| Shigeki Terashi |
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| Shigeki Tomoyama |
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| Gill A. Pratt |
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- 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)
| Name | Current | New | |
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| * | Hiroshi Nanbu |
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- 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 | |
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| Masahiko Oshima |
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| Emi Osono | School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University Business School, Professor | |
Member of the Board of Directors Resigning Post
| Name | Current Title | |
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| Teiko Kudo | Member of the Board of Directors | |
New Audit and Supervisory Board Members
| Name | Current Title | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Maoko Kikuchi |
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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
| Name | Title | |
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| 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 |
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| *2 | External board member |
Members of the Audit and Supervisory Board
| Name | Title | |
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| 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 |
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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