Change in Management

RNS Number : 9155L

Toyota Motor Corporation

20 January 2009

 



[Translation]

January 20, 2009

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 Announces Change in Management

Tokyo - TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced a list of executive nominees (for the positions of president and representative director and higher) to be officially approved at a board of directors' meeting following this year's annual general shareholders' meeting in June.

Nominated executives (for the positions of President and Representative Director and higher)

Name	New title	Current title
Fujio Cho	Chairman and Representative Director	Chairman and Representative Director
Katsuaki Watanabe*	Vice Chairman and  Representative Director	President and  Representative Director
Kazuo Okamoto	Vice Chairman and  Representative Director	Vice Chairman and  Representative Director
Akio Toyoda*	President and  Representative Director	Executive Vice President  and Representative Director
Asterisk indicates promotion Executive planning to retire (at the rank of President and Representative Director or higher)
Katsuhiro Nakagawa	Vice Chairman and Representative Director

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[For Reference] Biography of the new President and Representative Director nominee

(as of January 2009)

Name							Akio Toyoda
Date of Birth							May 3, 1956
Education
		Mar. 1979					Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Law
Business Experience
			Apr. 1984			Joined Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC)
			Apr. 1998		Vice President, New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.
			Jan. 2000		Project General Manager, Gazoo.com Div., TMC
			Jun. 2000		Director, Member of the Board, TMC
			Jun. 2001		Chief Asia Operations Officer, TMC
			Jun. 2002		Managing Director, Member of the Board, TMC
			Jun. 2003		Senior Managing Director, Member of the Board, TMC
			Jan. 2005		Chief Asia, Oceania & Middle East Operations Officer, TMC
			Jan. 2005		Chief China Operations Officer, TMC
			Jun. 2005		Executive Vice President, Member of the Board, TMC (Present)
					Chief IT & ITS Officer
Concurrent Post                  Jun. 2006         Corporate Auditor, Toyota Boshoku Corporation

 

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