Toyota Announces New Assignments for North American Manufacturing and R&D Executives
ERLANGER, Ky., Dec. 20, 2006 -- Toyota announced today new assignments for senior level managers at the company's North American manufacturing and R&D headquarters and facilities.
The new positions are as follows: (key to acronyms follows)
Vice President and above:
Name Affiliate New Assignment Current Assignment
Wil James TABC President Senior Vice President
Don Jackson TMMTX Senior Vice Vice President,
President, Quality Quality and Production
and Production
Atsushi Kume TEMA Senior Vice Department General
President, Manager, Global
Purchasing Purchasing Planning
Division, TMC
Kazhiro Somiya TEMA Senior Vice Vice President,
President, Production Engineering
Production
Engineering
Joe DaRosa TMMBC Vice President, General Manager,
Operations Operations
Shigeru Goda CAPTIN Vice President, General Manager
Manufacturing Myochi Plant Machining
Division, TMC
Pete Gritton TEMA Vice President, Vice President, Human
Human Resources Resources & General
Administration and Vice
President, Human
Resources, TMMK & TEMA
Naoki Kojima NUMMI Vice President / Department General
Treasurer, Finance Manager Financial
Accounting Dept.
Accounting Division, TMC
Brian Krinock TEMA Vice President, General Manager,
Production Purchasing, Project
Engineering, Management
Vehicle Engineering
Chris Nielsen TEMA Vice President, General Manager,
Purchasing, Vehicle Purchasing, Vehicle
Parts and Materials Parts & Materials
Yoshihiro Uozumi TEMA Vice President, Senior Advisor,
Corporate Strategy Corporate Strategy
General Manager:
Mike Botkin TEMA General Manager, Assistant General
Production Control Manager, Production
Control, TMMK & TEMA
Doug Formby TEMA & General Manager, General Manager,
TMMI Production Control Production Control
& General Manager,
New Project Office
Preparation
Glen Kelley TMMAL General Manager, Assistant General
Manufacturing Manager,
Manufacturing
Dave Mimms TEMA General Manager, Assistant General
Quality, Material Manager, Quality,
Quality Assurance Material Quality
Assurance
Bill Shelmon TEMA General Manager, Manager, Engineering
TEMA, TTC, Design
Engineering Design
Glenn Sommerville TMMC General Manager, Assistant General
Assembly, North & Manager, Assembly,
South Plant Assembly North
Operations
Marc Vallee TMMC General Manager, Assistant General
Body, North & Manager, Press/Weld
South Plant
Operations
Rebecca Vest TEMA General Manager, Assistant General
Vehicle Parts Manager, Purchasing,
& Materials Vehicle Parts &
Materials
Acronyms:
TEMA Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
TMC Toyota Motor Corporations, Inc. (Global Headquarters, located in
Japan)
TTC Toyota Technical Center
TMMI Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc.
TMMAL Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Alabama, Inc.
TMMK Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc.
TMMTX Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc.
TMMC Toyota Motor Manufacturing Cananda, Inc.
CAPTIN Canadian Autoparts Toyota, Inc.
TMMBC Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California, Inc.
NUMMI New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.
Toyota established operations in North America in 1957. By 2008, Toyota will have the annual capacity to build about 2 million cars and trucks in 15 plants across North America. There are more than 1,700 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealerships in North America, which sell more than 2.5 million vehicles a year. Toyota directly employs nearly 40,000 people in North America. Toyota's investment in North America is valued at more than $17.6 billion, and annual purchasing from North American suppliers totals more than $29 billion.