Announcement of Departure of Deputy COO of Nissan Number 3 Seki

Nissan Motor has officially announced that Deputy COO Jun Seki, the third in the new management system launched this month, will soon leave the company. Nissan will promptly select a replacement, but it will be painful just to start tackling issues such as business recovery with a new system.

According to the announcement, Nissan has received a request from Deputy Chief Operating Officer (COO), Deputy Chief Operating Officer (58), to have left the company and accepted it as a company. The time to leave the company is likely to be decided soon.

Mr. Seki told NHK on Tuesday that he plans to join the electronic component major Nidec with the next president after leaving the company. He said, "I am grateful that I have had various experiences with Nissan, but I am 58 years old and decided to leave the company as a president and want to take on the last challenge."

Mr. Seki was born in Nissan in 1986, and has recently been involved in the planning of structural reforms to improve business performance.

Under the new management system that was just launched on the 1st of this month, it was promoted to the No. 3 deputy COO, and together with President Makoto Uchida (53) and COW of Ashwani Gupta (49), took charge of management in a so-called "group leadership system". I was going to go.

Nissan will promptly select a successor, but it will hurt just to start tackling urgent issues such as performance recovery under the new system.