18:57 on December 27, 2006
With the new management system launched this month, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has decided to assign a vice president in charge of production etc. to a candidate for a substitute director because the No. 3 executives will be leaving the company immediately.
Nissan has just started a new management system this month, and has been pushing for a succession because the No. 3 deputy COO, No. 3 has decided to leave the company to join Nidec, a major electronic component, with the next president. Was.
As a result, Mr. Hideyuki Sakamoto (63) has been nominated as a candidate for a director, and has decided to attend the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders next February.
After joining Nissan in 1980, Mr. Sakamoto worked as a vice president from 2014, mainly as a vehicle development and technical manager for small cars, and is currently in charge of car production and distribution.
Since Nissan's arrest in November last year, Mr. Ghosn was arrested, and as the management system has been confused, it is questioned whether the new management system will be able to recover business performance and improve relations with Renault which forms a partnership Become.