Thomas Lane was appointed Alliance Global Vice President, Product Planning, Renault-Nissan B.V, on Feb. 1, 2015. 

 

He reports directly to Arnaud Deboeuf, Alliance Senior Vice President of Renault-Nissan BV and the Alliance CEO’s Office, and functionally to Bruno Ancelin, Executive Vice President, Product Planning and Programs, Renault SAS, and Philippe Klein, Chief Planning Officer, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

 

As head of the newly created Alliance product planning office, Lane is responsible for consolidating and providing the Alliance’s input to long-range product and powertrain plans. 

 

In his previous position, Lane was Senior Vice President, Product Planning, Renault SAS and a member of the Renault Management Committee.

 

Lane joined Nissan Motor Company in the US in 1981 as a Product Specialist, Product Planning. In 1984, he joined J.D. Power & Associates as Project Director before moving to Hyundai Motor America in 1986 as National Manager, Product Planning. In 1991, he returned to Nissan North America as Corporate Manager in the Product and Market Strategy department. In 2000, he was appointed Program Director for the D-platform (Altima, Teana, Maxima and Murano), before becoming General Manager of Product Planning in 2005 and Corporate Vice President in 2006.

 

Lane is an American national and has an MBA from the University of Southern California. He was born in 1958.