Toyota City, Japan, November 30, 2022―Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced today that it intends to implement changes to its executive structure effective December 1 and to senior professional/senior management employees (of senior general manager level and above) effective January 1, 2023.
- Changes to executive structure effective December 1
Audit and Supervisory Board Member Yoko Wake is to resign effective November 30, 2022, due to personal reasons. As this departure will create a vacancy in the legally required number of corporate auditors, Substitute Audit and Supervisory Board Member Ryuji Sakai will be appointed as an Audit and Supervisory Board Member effective December 1, 2022.
Substitute Audit and Supervisory Board Member Sakai was elected to his current post at TMC’s 118th Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting on June 15, 2022, and he fulfills the requirements of an Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member. His term of office as an Audit and Supervisory Board Member shall expire at the next Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting.
New Audit and Supervisory Board Member
| Name | Current | New | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryuji Sakai | Substitute Audit and Supervisory Board Member | Audit and Supervisory Board Member | |
Audit and Supervisory Board Member resigning post
| Name | Current | |
|---|---|---|
| Yoko Wake | Audit and Supervisory Board Member | |
Senior professional/senior management employee (of senior general manager level and above) resigning post
| Name | Current | |
|---|---|---|
| Hirohisa Kishi |
| |
| Toshio Niimi | Toyota Motor North America, Inc. | |
Changes in area of responsibility of senior professional/senior management employees (of senior general manager level and above)
| Name | Current | New | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Takefumi Shiga | Production Group In charge of strengthening global corporate structure (North America) (Chief Project Manager) | Toyota Motor North America, Inc. | |
| Seiya Nakao |
| China Region (Project General Manager) | |
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