Biography

Minoru Shinohara joined the Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in 1977 straight from University. He became a Senior Manager in the Corporate Planning Department in 1996, the first in a number of managerial roles at Nissan.

Between 1996 and 2004, he was variously Senior Manager, Deputy General Manager or General Manager in Powertrain Product Planning, Powertrain Operations and Advanced Vehicle Engineering. In April 2004, he was appointed Vice President in charge of the Nissan Research Center.

In April 2005, he was made a Senior Vice President in charge of Nissan’s Integrated Systems Planning Office at the same time as overseeing departments involved in Environmental and Safety Engineering, Technology Planning and Material Engineering. He also controlled the Advanced Vehicle Engineering and Electronics Engineering divisions.

A year later, in April 2006, he was appointed Senior Vice President in charge of the Technology Development Division as well as overseeing the Electronics and Power Electronics Engineering divisions.

He moved to his current role as Alliance Director of Research and Advanced Engineering in June 2009, where he is responsible for accelerating Alliance synergies in advanced technology development.

Minoru Shinohara was born in Japan in June 1952 and graduated from Kyoto University’s School of Engineering with a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.