Toyota India has announced the appointment of Mr. Akito Tachibana as the new Managing Director with effect from 1st April 2016.Mr. Akito Tachibana has spent three decades at Toyota and his experience in Toyota Motor Corporation spans across various functions like HR, Domestic and Overseas Planning, and Used Car and Product Management. He has worked in the Corporate Planning Function at Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America and was also responsible of Product Planning for North America. He has also headed Toyota Motor Vietnam as the President.
Tachibana currently heads the Technical, Purchase and Quality Assurance functions at Toyota India. Before his current assignment Tachibana was working as the Executive Vice President – Toyota Motor Thailand. The current MD of Toyota India, Mr. Naomi Ishii, has been appointed as the General Manager of Corporate Planning Division – Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan from 01st April 2016. This appointment is a part of the organization changes at Toyota Motor Corporation, announced earlier.
