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Akio "Morizo" Toyoda (豊田 章男, Toyoda Akio; born 3 May 1956) is a Japanese business executive who is the chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. He was previously the company's president and chief executive officer (CEO). [1] Toyoda is a great-grandson of the industrialist, Sakichi Toyoda, and a grandson of both the founder of Toyota Motors, Kiichiro Toyoda, and the founder of the.

Outside Japan, he served as an executive vice president and board member at New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI), Toyota's production joint venture with General Motors in California, starting in April 1998. In January 2000, he returned to Japan and was named to TMC's Board of Directors in June.

Toyota's longtime president and CEO Akio Toyoda is stepping down and handing over the reins of the world's largest automaker to Lexus chief Koji Sato. Koji Sato, appointed the next president at Japan's top automaker Toyota, has outlined a management team that he says will lead an aggressive push on electric vehicles. Toyota Motor Corp.

said on Thursday that Akio Toyoda would step down as president and chief executive and hand over the helm of Japan's largest automaker at a time when the company faces the. Akio Toyoda, grandson of Toyota founder Kiichiro Toyoda, became CEO of the world's largest automaker eight years ago. In its most recent fiscal year, the Japanese car company made 10.4 million.

Akio Toyoda, the scion chief of the Japanese automotive giant Toyota, will make way for a younger successor as the company struggles to adapt to the world's growing demand for electric vehicles. Toyota Motor Corp.'s surprise announcement Thursday of a change in its top management came as CEO Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the founder, picked an executive more than 10 years younger than him as his successor at a time when the global auto industry faces a once.