Mazda Announces Organizational and Personnel Changes

Tokyo, January 1, 2012; Mazda Motor Corporation has announced the following organizational and personnel changes, effective January 1, 2012.

1. Organizational Changes

Changes in the area of IT

Goals
- To strengthen system support in the emerging market business.
- To promote the company-wide business process innovation with increased efficiency.
- To accelerate innovative strategies for system construction and technology to achieve these goals.

Details of organizational changes
- System planning and promotion for emerging markets business and collaborative functions with company-wide process innovation activities have been integrated to the IT Solution Div.
- The System Planning & Administration Dept. has been reorganized and renamed as the System Governance & Administration Dept.
- The strategic planning functions for infrastructure in the System Planning & Administration Dept., Business Systems Dept., and Office Work Process Innovation Dept. have been consolidated, to newly form the Infrastructure Systems Dept.
- The functions of the Office Work Process Innovation Dept. have been transferred to the System Governance & Administration Dept. and Infrastructure Systems Dept., and the Office Work Process Innovation Dept. has been abolished.

2. Personnel Changes

Executive officer

Kiyotaka Shobuda
Current post:            Executive Officer in Charge of Production;
                         General Manager, Production Engineering Div.;
                         and Assistant to the Officer in Charge of 
                         Cost Innovation
New post:                Executive Officer in Charge of Production; 
                         General Manager, Product & Production 
                         Engineering Dept. and General Manager, 
                         Production Engineering Div.; and Assistant 
                         to the Officer in Charge of Cost Innovation

General managers and above

Shigemitsu Koike
Current post:            General Manager Product & Production 
                         Engineering Dept. and Deputy General Manager,
                         Production Engineering Div.
New post:                Assistant to executive officer in charge of 
                         promoting Monotsukuri Innovation; Assistant 
                         to executive officer in charge of R&D; and 
                         Monotsukuri Innovation Promotion Supervisory 
                         Leader (Effective January 11, 2012)

Minoru Takata
Current post:            Program Manager, Program Management Div.
New post:                General Manager, Infrastructure Dept.

Noritaka Sakiyama
Current post:            General Manager, Infrastructure Dept.
New post:                Staff Manager, Infrastructure Dept.

Yoshifumi Ozawa
Current post:            General Manager, System Planning & 
                         Administration Dept.
New post:                General Manager, IT Solution Div.

Yutaka Wasemori
Current post:            General Manager, Business Systems Dept.
New post:                General Manager, System Governance &

                         Administration Dept.; Deputy General Manager,
                         Corporate Planning Div.; and Deputy General 
                         Manager, IT Solution Div.

Masafumi Miyoshi
Current post:            General Manager, IT Solution Div.
New post:                Staff Manager, IT Solution Div.

Masahiko Tamura
Current post:            Manager, Business Systems Dept.
New post:                General Manager, Business Systems Dept.

Masaki Matsuoka
Current post:            Manager, Engineering Systems Dept.
New post:                General Manager, Infrastructure Systems Dept.

Tadahiko Wakabayashi
Current post:            General Manager, Office Work Process
                         Innovation Dept. (To retire on January 10, 2012)

About Mazda

Mazda Motor Corporation started manufacturing tools in 1929 and soon branched out into production of trucks for commercial use. In the early 1960s, Mazda launched its first passenger car models and began developing rotary engines. Still headquartered in Hiroshima in western Japan, Mazda today ranks as one of Japan's leading automakers, and exports cars to the United States and Europe for over 30 years. For more information, please visit www.mazda.com.