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Nissan Europe announces senior management changes
21st March 2007
Hidetoshi Imazu has been appointed Chairman of Nissan’s Management Committee for Europe, and Trevor Mann has been made Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, both effective from 1st April.
Mr. Imazu will be also be proposed as a director of the company at Nissan's AGM in June. He replaces Hiroto Saikawa, executive vice president for purchasing, who will take on the role as chairman of the management committee for the Americas, replacing Carlos Ghosn. Imazu has had a full career history with Nissan including a number of senior roles in engineering and production. In 1999, he moved to Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK Ltd., where he was deputy managing director, responsible for engineering, quality assurance and finance functions.
In his new role, Trevor Mann will oversee all manufacturing operations in Europe, including plant facilities in Spain, the UK and in Russia where Nissan will commence production in early 2009. He will retain his current responsibilities as vice president of manufacturing, UK and will report directly to Imazu. Mann will replace Colin Dodge, who will take on a new role as senior vice president, general overseas markets (GOM), China operations and global information systems. Dodge will also serve on the Nissan executive committee.
In November 2003, Mann was appointed director of operations and production, overseeing all Sunderland based production and production control areas. In April 2004, he became deputy managing director, overseeing operations, and in January 2006 was appointed vice president of manufacturing in the UK.
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