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Nissan confirms new leadership changes
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has announced changes to its senior management, introducing a significantly renewed leadership line-up to achieve the company’ s short- and mid-term objectives while positioning it for long-term growth.
Effective from 1 April 2025, the Board of Directors has approved titles and areas of responsibility for the representative executive officer and executive officers. Ivan Espinosa, currently the Chief Planning Officer, has been appointed as the representative Executive Officer, President and CEO, succeeding Makoto Uchida.
Nissan also announced significant changes to its Executive Committee, which will report to Espinosa from 1 April 2025, as follows:
■ Guillaume Cartier, Chief Performance Officer and Chairperson of the Management Committee for AMIEO, will have an expanded role including global marketing and customer experience.
■ Eiichi Akashi, currently Corporate Vice President( CVP) of the Vehicle Planning and Vehicle Component Engineering Division, will become Chief Technology Officer and Executive Officer, succeeding Kunio Nakaguro.
■ Teiji Hirata, currently CVP of the Vehicle Production Engineering and Development Division, will become Chief Monozukuri Officer and Executive Officer, responsible for Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management, succeeding Hideyuki Sakamoto.
Nissan production.
■ Jeremie Papin, Chief Financial Officer, is also appointed as Executive Officer.
■ Stephen Ma, Chairperson of the Management Committee for China; Mitsuro Antoku, Chief Quality Officer; and Toru Ihara, Chief HR Officer will continue in their current roles.
Uchida and Sakamoto will retain their positions of directors until the annual general meeting of shareholders planned for June.
Other key management appointments include Shohei Yamazaki, Chairperson of the Management Committee for Japan-ASEAN, who will have an expanded role that includes oversight of affiliate companies. Christian Meunier, Chairperson of the Management
Committee for the Americas, will continue in his current position.
Tatsuzo Tomita, currently the CVP of Product Development No. 2, will assume Akashi’ s R & D responsibilities and will also take on the additional role of Chief of Total Delivered Cost( TdC) Transformation, reporting to Espinosa.
Manabu Sakane, currently CVP of Purchasing, will become Chief of Strategy Acceleration, reporting to Espinosa.
In addition to Nakaguro, Sakamoto and Uchida, Asako Hoshino( Chief Brand & Customer Officer) and Hideaki Watanabe, Chief Strategy & Corporate Affairs Officer, will step down from their current roles on 31 March 2025. n
Negresiolo steps up at ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal has confirmed the appointment of Everton Negresiolo as CEO of its South American Long Products and mining business, and a member of the group management committee from 1 April 2025. He will report to Aditya Mittal, Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal.
Everton succeeds Jefferson de Paula, who is retiring from 1 April 2025. Jefferson, an Executive Vice President and member of the group’ s management committee, joined ArcelorMittal in 1991 as a melt shop manager in one of the company’ s Brazilian steel plants. During his 34-year career with the group, he held several senior leadership positions including COO of Acindar( the group’ s Argentinian long products steelmaking operation), CEO of ArcelorMittal Europe Long Products South Division and had been CEO of the group’ s South American Long Products and mining business since 2011.
Negresiolo is a graduate in mechanical engineering with a specialism in production management and also holds an MBA from the Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil.
Additionally, Jorge Luiz Ribeiro de Oliveira, currently Vice President of ArcelorMittal and CEO of ArcelorMittal South
Everton Negresiolo.
America Flat Products, has been nominated Executive Vice President of ArcelorMittal from 1 April 2025.
ArcelorMittal is one of the world’ s leading integrated steel and mining companies with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking operations in 15 countries. It is the largest steel producer in Europe, among the largest in the Americas and has a growing presence in Asia through its joint venture AM / NS India. n
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