EX-99.1 2 ex99_042307-newexe.txt PRESS RELEASE - LIST OF EXECUTIVE NOMINEES [Translation] April 12, 2007 To Whom It May Concern: Company Name: TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION Name and Title of Representative: Katsuaki Watanabe, President (Code Number: 7203 Securities exchanges throughout Japan) Name and Title of Contact Person: Takuo Sasaki General Manager, Accounting Division Telephone Number: 0565-28-2121 Toyota Names New Executives Tokyo--TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced today planned executive changes to take effect following the ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June, as described below. 1. Newly Appointed Members of the Board of Directors (9 people)- Pending approval at this year's ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name New title Current title ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Koichi Ina Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takeshi Yoshida Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shinzo Kobuki Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Akira Sasaki Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiroshi Kawakami Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tadashi Arashima Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mamoru Furuhashi Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Satoshi Ozawa Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James E. Press Senior Managing Director Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Retiring Directors (4 people)- To retire on the same day as this year's ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name Current title ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoshimi Inaba Executive Vice President and Representative Director ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tetsuo Hattori Senior Managing Director ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hajime Wakayama Senior Managing Director ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoshio Shirai Senior Managing Director ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. New Corporate Auditors (2 people) - Pending approval at this year's ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name Current title ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kunihiro Matsuo Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoshikazu Amano Managing Officer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Retiring Corporate Auditors (2 people) - To retire on the same day as this year's ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name Current Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hideaki Miyahara Full-time Corporate Auditor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yasutaka Okamura Corporate Auditor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. New Managing Officers (11 people) - Pending approval at a board of directors' meeting following this year's ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name Current Title (at TMC, unless noted) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shigeki Suzuki General Manager, Material Engineering Div. 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katsutada Masumoto General Manager, Overseas Service Field Operations Div. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yasushi Kohara General Manager, Toyopet channel Operations Div. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shigeru Hayakawa General Manager, Public Affairs Div. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hisayuki Inoue General Manager, Global Planning Div. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiroji Onishi General Manager, IT & ITS Planning Div. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keiji Masui General Manager, Production Control Div. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenji Miura General Manager, Operations Management Consulting Div. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiyotaka Ise Executive Chief Engineer, TOYOTA Development Center 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katsuyuki Miyabayashi General Manager, Product Planning Div. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Didier Leroy President, Toyota Motor Manufacturing France S.A.S. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Retiring Managing Officers (4 people) - To retire on the same day as this year's ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name Current Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoshikazu Amano Managing Officer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Masamoto Maekawa Managing Officer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary L. Convis Managing Officer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yasumori Ihara Managing Officer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For Reference Expected executive lineup following June 2007 ordinary general shareholders' meeting-- The appointment of the members of the Board and corporate auditors is to be officially approved by the shareholders at the ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June 2007. The managing directors and representative directors are to be officially approved by the members of the Board at the Board of Directors' meeting held following the ordinary general shareholders' meeting. The full-time corporate auditors are to be officially approved at the corporate auditors' meeting following the ordinary general shareholders' meeting. i. Board of Directors (30 people) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name New title -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fujio Cho Chairman and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katsuhiro Nakagawa Vice Chairman and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katsuaki Watanabe President and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tokuichi Uranishi Executive Vice President and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazuo Okamoto Executive Vice President and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyoji Sasazu Executive Vice President and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mitsuo Kinoshita Executive Vice President and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takeshi Uchiyamada Executive Vice President and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masatami Takimoto Executive Vice President and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Akio Toyoda Executive Vice President and Representative Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yukitoshi Funo Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takeshi Suzuki Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atsushi Niimi Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiroshi Takada Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teiji Tachibana Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shinichi Sasaki Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Akira Okabe Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoichiro Ichimaru Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoji Ikawa Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Koichi Ina* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takeshi Yoshida* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shinzo Kobuki* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Akira Sasaki* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiroshi Kawakami* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tadashi Arashima* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mamoru Furuhashi* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Satoshi Ozawa* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James E. Press* Senior Managing Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoichiro Toyoda Honorary Chairman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiroshi Okuda Senior Advisor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Newly appointed ii. Corporate Auditors (7 people) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name New title ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoshikazu Amano* Full-time Corporate Auditor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chiaki Yamaguchi Full-time Corporate Auditor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masaki Nakatsugawa Full-time Corporate Auditor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoichi Kaya Corporate Auditor** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoichi Morishita Corporate Auditor** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Akishige Okada Corporate Auditor** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kunihiro Matsuo* Corporate Auditor** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Newly appointed **Outside corporate auditors set forth in Article 2-16 of the Corporation Act of Japan iii. Managing Officers (47 people) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name New title ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iwao Nihashi Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seiichi Sudo Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yasuhiko Ichihashi Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tadashi Yamashina Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takashi Hata Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wahei Hirai Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tatehito Ueda Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takashi Shigematsu Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yuzo Ushiyama Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takahiko Ijichi Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toshio Furutani Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tetsuo Agata Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Senta Morioka Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hironobu Inoue Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazuhiko Takarada Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masayuki Nakai Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toshiki Hayama Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takahiro Iwase Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Akihito Tsuji Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoshihiko Masuda Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nobuo Kobayashi Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoshimasa Ishii Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tatsuya Kaneko Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takeshi Shirane Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masanao Tomozoe Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katsunori Itasaka Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tokuyuki Takahashi Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Real C. Tanguay Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryoichi Sasaki Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seiho Kawakami Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yasuhiko Yokoi Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takahiro Fujioka Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Masanobu Kawase Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yukio Nishikawa Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hirofumi Muta Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thierry Dombreval Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shigeki Suzuki* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katsutada Masumoto* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yasushi Kohara* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shigeru Hayakawa* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hisayuki Inoue* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiroji Onishi* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keiji Masui* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenji Miura* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiyotaka Ise* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katsuyuki Miyabayashi* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Didier Leroy* Managing Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Newly appointed For more Information, please contact Tomomi Imai/Paul Nolasco of the Corporate Communications Department, Public Affairs Division, Toyota Motor Corporation at 03-3817-9150/9161.