Biography

Hiromi Takaoka joined Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., in April 1982 after graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He has been with the company all his working life, spending time in Japan and Mexico contributing as the T&C engineer and a member of the Corporate Industrial Strategy planning staff.

The first part of his career was spent in the plant, working as a T&C Manufacturing Engineer in the Tochigi, Oppama and Murayama plants. After an expatriate experience in Mexico, he became the T&C Line Manager at the Murayama plant in 1997. Then through his variety of experience in strategic planning, he became General Manager of the Manufacturing Strategy Planning department in 2007.

In April 2009, Takaoka was appointed Regional Vice President of Nissan’s Tochigi plant, having to face major issues in his role as the INFINITI Plant Manager with the global economic crises (Lehman collapse) and the disastrous earthquake in eastern Japan on March 11th 2011.

In November 2011, he moved to the Renault-Nissan Alliance where he is responsible for Alliance Industrial Sourcing. He reports directly to Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn and functionally to Gerard Leclercq and Hidetoshi Imazu, Executive Vice President of Renault and Nissan respectively.

Hiromi Takaoka was born on May 16th, 1957.