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The president and CEO of Toyota is the grandson of Kiichiro Toyota,
the founder of the Toyota Motors was nick named as the “Prince” by the
media in Japan, when he took over Toyota Motors. He is the son of
Shoichiro Toyoda, the man behind the success of Toyota. He is known to
own assets worth $1 billion. He was announced as the forth coming
president of Toyota in January 2009 and on June 23rd he was confirmed
for the role of the president of the Toyota. It was confirmed along with
other four new executives of the company and the eight new members in
the board. A person known to be very approachable by his colleagues, he
is also known as a person who is very eager to play down his famous
family background. He also is known for his sudden visits to the
assembly lines and dealerships as well. He is known to have a hidden
infatuation for cars and racing which was very recently was shared by
himself on his blog.
Early Days and Education
Akio Toyoda was born in Nagoya to the couple Shoichiro Toyoda and
Tatsuro Toyoda on the 3rd of May, 1956 in the town of Nagoya in Japan.
Known to be descendents of Sakichi Toyoda, who is known to have
established Toyoda Automatic loom works, they have dominated the higher
management of Toyota Motors. The well known and the world famous Toyota
Motors has been incorporated in the year 1937. Shoichiro Toyoda, father
of Akio, was born in Nagoya on February 17, 1925 and is the son of
Kiichiro Toyoda.Akio Toyota owns a degree in law from Keio University in the year 1979 and also a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Babson College, United States of America, in the year 1982. He joined Toyota Motor Corporation in the year 1984. His career began outside the family business, and his strong background made his elevation to the president as inevitable. He is the first member of the family to lead the Japan’s biggest carmaker after this uncle, Tatsuro, who stepped aside in the year 1995 leaded Toyota in the 1980’s as well as the 1990’s. He was also a part of the team which drove the company’s Lexus super car and finished fourth in their class. It was also after his appointment, he did mention his love for cars and also said that he would strive and produce cars with which anyone would fall in love with.
The Spark
Akio Toyoda’s career can be termed which includes postings in every
phase of the automobile operations, which includes production, marketing
as well as product development. Mr.Toyoda has also served outside Japan
as the executive Vice President at the Toyota’s productions joint
venture with General Motors in CA. This was in the year April 1998. In
the year January 2000, he made a return to Japan and was named as one of
the board of Directors of TMC in the month of June. Being in that role,
he took charge of the creation and supervision of Gazoo.com, a famous
website which has tons of virtual shops for consumer goods and services
along with the information about some new and used cars. He also
supervised the domestic marketing operations, and in June 2001, Mr.
Toyoda became the chief officer of the Asia and the China Operations
center and in the year 2002, he took over the position of managing
director.He also served as the Director of Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Inc and also served as the Auditor of Shiroki Corporation. He also served as the corporate auditor at JTEKT Corporation. He also served as the Director at the Aisin AW Co.ltd.
His Journey with Toyota Motors
Akio Toyota became the president of Toyota Motors in the month of
June last year and laid a promise to him that he would steer it through
its worst crisis of the century. This statement was made in reference
to the global recession which left the firm with the first annual loss
ever in the history of 73 years. In the span of nine months, this 53
years old executive has his preparations for the US congressional
committee which showcases the firm’s safety recall of more than 8.5
million cars.It was last year that the firm generated the highest returns and was named among the World’s five biggest automakers. Akio Toyodo is also known to be the lowest paid chief in the group with earnings as low as one-tenth as his counterpart. The firm also climbed in terms of returns this year by about 26% in dollar terms. It is hence termed by one and all that Toyota’s President delivered the highest returns for the lowest pay.
“Akio has been tested like no other CEO of Toyota in the last 30 years,” said Maryann Keller, principal at the auto industry consulting firm Maryann Keller & Associates in Stamford, Connecticut. Compared to Toyoda, “the competition is overpaid.”
In many other ways, the journey of this CEO is no different from any other CEO. He is known to be quite loyal, diligent servant of the firm which he joined as a junior manager in the 1984.
He served as the Senior Adviser and Director of Toyota Media Service Corporation. He also worked as the Senior Advisor of Toyota Media Service Corporation. He also took charge as the Chairperson of the Japan Automobile manufacturers Association before taking charge as the President and the Director of Toyota motor corporation.
Family
Akio Toyoda is married and has two children-one boy and one girl.
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forward, working closely with our suppliers in Australia, we would like
to aim at achieving sustainable growth 