HA NOI — Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) appointed Toru Kinoshita president of the group’s Management Board on January 1.
Toru Kinoshita, born in Japan in 1964, succeeds former president Yoshihisa Maruta.
Before taking the assignment in TMV, Kinoshita worked for nearly 30 years in the Toyota Motor Corporation and in Toyota Motor Asia Pacific in Singapore and Thailand.
TMV also introduced newly-appointed vice president Đỗ Thu Hoàng, who replaced Đoàn Thị Yến.
Hoàng was born in 1969 in Hà Nội. She graduated from the National Economics University and worked at different places before joining the Vietnam Engine and Agricultural Machinery Corporation (VEAM) in 2009.
VEAM currently holds a 20-per cent stake in TMV. VNS