EX-99.1 2 d624988dex991.htm ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE CHANGES IN MANAGEMENT Announcement Regarding the Changes in Management

TMC Announces Changes to Executive Responsibilities

and to Audit and Supervisory Board

Toyota City, Japan, March 1, 2019—Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it plans to implement the changes described below to executive responsibilities, effective April 1, 2019, and, pending ratification at TMC’s 115th ordinary general shareholders meeting, to its Audit and Supervisory Board.

1) Operating officers resigning posts

 

Name

         
Steve St. Angelo      

2) Operating officers’ areas of responsibility

 

Name

  

Current

  

New

Mitsuru Kawai   

(TMC Executive Vice President)

Plants (Supervisor of plants across in-house companies)

  

(TMC Executive Vice President)

General Administration & Human Resources Group (Chief Officer)

Plants (Supervisor of plants across in-house companies)

Tatsuro Ueda   

General Administration & Human Resources Group (Chief Officer)
Business Planning Div.

China & Asia Region (Chief Executive Officer)

Toyota Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

  

Business Planning Div.

China & Asia Region (Chief Executive Officer)

Toyota Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

3) Areas of responsibility for senior professionals/senior management serving as chief officer

 

Name

  

Current

  

New

Masahiro Inoue   

Latin America & Caribbean Region (Deputy Chief Executive Officer)

Latin America & Caribbean Div. (concurrent General Manager)

  

Latin America & Caribbean Region (Chief Executive Officer)

Latin America & Caribbean Div. (concurrent General Manager)

Toyota Argentina S.A.
Toyota do Brasil LTDA.
Toyota de Venezuela Compania Anonima

 

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4) Areas of responsibility for senior professionals/senior management serving as in-house company executive vice president

 

Name

  

Current

  

New

Yumi Otsuka

  

GAZOO Racing Company

GR Planning Field (Field General Manager)

GR Management Div. (concurrent General Manager)

  

GAZOO Racing Company (Executive Vice President)

GR Planning Field (Field General Manager)

GR Management Div. (concurrent General Manager)

5) Areas of responsibility for senior professionals/senior management serving as field general manager

 

Name

  

Current

  

New

Osamu Sadakata

   GAZOO Racing Company (Executive Vice President)   

Customer First Promotion Group

Parts & Accessory Field (Field General Manager)

Among the changes to its Audit and Supervisory Board, members resigning their posts are scheduled to resign on the date of the 115th ordinary general shareholders meeting.

No changes are scheduled to the board of directors. Representative directors and directors with special titles are to be appointed at a meeting of the board of directors following the 115th ordinary general shareholders meeting.

New Audit and Supervisory Board Members

 

Name

  

Current Title

Haruhiko Kato    Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO of Japan Securities Depository Center, Incorporated
Katsuyuki Ogura    General Manager, Audit & Supervisory Board Office (TMC)

Audit and Supervisory Board Members Resigning Posts

 

Name

  

Current Title

Masahiro Kato    Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)
Yoshiyuki Kagawa    Audit and Supervisory Board Member (full-time)

 

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For reference: Members of the board of directors and members (candidates) of the Audit and Supervisory Board following the 115th ordinary general shareholders meeting

Members of the Board of Directors

 

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)
Koji Kobayashi*2    Member of the Board of Directors (Representative Director)
Didier Leroy*2    Member of the Board of Directors
Shigeki Terashi*2    Member of the Board of Directors
Ikuro Sugawara*3    Member of the Board of Directors
Sir Philip Craven*3    Member of the Board of Directors
Teiko Kudo*3    Member of the Board of Directors

 

*1 

Concurrent operating officer (president)

*2 

Concurrent operating officer (executive vice president)

*3 

External board member

Audit and Supervisory Board members

 

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
Nobuyuki Hirano    Audit and Supervisory Board Member

 

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