- DENSO press release
Organizational changes effective October 1, 2023
A part of the Vehicle Development Center and a part of the Connected Company will be consolidated, and a new Software Development Center will be established.
Connected Company → (terminated)
Changes in responsibilities of executives and senior professional/senior management employees and executives (senior general manager level and above) as a result of the above organizational changes effective October 1, 2023
The structure described below is to replace TMC’s structure of dispersed functions and is intended to enable integrated promotion of software-related businesses and software development and strengthen cooperation among the three companies concerned.
| Name | Current | New | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☆ | Akihiro Sarada | Mid-size Vehicle Company (Chief Engineer) | Software Development Center (President) |
| ☆ | Toshihiro Izumi | Production Group BR Battery Manufacturing Preparation Dept. (General Manager) | Software Development Center (Executive Vice President) |
| ☆ | Yoshifumi Kato | DENSO Co. Senior Executive Officer Chief Technology Officer |
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| ☆ | James Kuffner |
| Software Development Center (Senior Fellow) |
| Koichi Shirozu | Vehicle Development Center In charge of Software First (Chief Project Leader) | Software Development Center In charge of electronic P/F (Chief Project Leader) | |
| Ken Koibuchi |
| Software Development Center In charge of application development (Chief Project Leader) | |
| Takashi Imai | Connected Company Connected Technology Field (Senior General Manager) | Software Development Center In charge of Software P/F (Chief Project Leader) | |
| Kenichi Murata | Connected Company In charge of Software First (Fellow) | Software Development Center In charge of BEV (STEP3) (Fellow) | |
| Keiji Yamamoto |
| Senior Fellow Chief Information & Security Officer Digital Transformation Promotion Dept. Information Systems Group | |
| Hideharu Matsuoka | Connected Company (Executive Vice President) | Information Systems Group In charge of B to C systems (Chief Project Leader) | |
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