Nissan has made leadership changes within the Nissan Americas region and within teams based at Nissan global headquarters. The following changes are effective April 1, 2010.
Takashi Sakagami, general manager of corporate planning for Nissan Motor Company, is named as general manager of new zero-emission businesses (ZEBU), which is based at Nissan global headquarters in Yokohama. He will report to Hide Watanabe, general manager, ZEBU. Since joining Nissan in 1986, Mr Sakagami has held positions in overseas marketing and sales, and was promoted to his current position in 2009.
Mr Sakagami is succeeded by Thomas Besson, president of Nissan Brazil. As general manager of corporate planning for NML, Mr Besson will be based in Yokohama and will report to Colin Dodge, chief recovery officer, and executive vice president of corporate planning for control and G&A breakthrough. Mr Besson joined Nissan in 2003 as project manager in the organization development department and was promoted to his current role in 2006.
Christian Meunier, vice president of Nissan marketing for Nissan North America (NNA), will transfer to Nissan Brazil at Curitiba to succeed Mr Besson as president. He will report to Carlos Tavares, chairman of management committee-Americas, and executive vice-president at NML. In the interim, Brian Carolin, senior vice president of sales and marketing of NNA, will directly oversee the marketing function for Nissan.
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