MAZDA NEWSROOM｜Organizational and Personnel Changes

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Dec. 28, 2011

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

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

General managers and above

New post	Current post	Name
Assistant to executive officer in charge of promoting Monotsukuri Innovation; Assistant to executive officer in charge of R&D; Monotsukuri Innovation Promotion Supervisory Leader (Effective January 11, 2012)	General Manager Product & Production Engineering Dept. and Deputy General Manager Production Engineering Div.	Shigemitsu Koike
General Manager Infrastructure Dept.	Program Manager Program Management Div.	Minoru Takata
Staff Manager Infrastructure Dept.	General Manager Infrastructure Dept.	Noritaka Sakiyama
General Manager IT Solution Div.	General Manager System Planning & Administration Dept.	Yoshifumi Ozawa
General Manager System Governance & Administration Dept. and Deputy General Manager Corporate Planning Div. and Deputy General Manager IT Solution Div.	General Manager Business Systems Dept.	Yutaka Wasemori
Staff Manager IT Solution Div.	General Manager IT Solution Div.	Masafumi Miyoshi
General Manager Business Systems Dept.	Manager Business Systems Dept.	Masahiko Tamura
General Manager Infrastructure Systems Dept.	Manager Engineering Systems Dept.	Masaki Matsuoka
-	General Manager Office Work Process Innovation Dept. (To retire on January 10, 2012)	Tadahiko Wakabayashi