 |
WUHAN, China, Dec. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. (DFL), Nissan's joint venture in China, today announced a senior management change effective January 1, 2014. Jun Seki, currently vice president of DFL, will assume the position of president. Seki will be officially named president at the DFL board meeting scheduled for late December.
Also effective January 1, 2014, Kimiyasu Nakamura, current president of DFL, will become executive vice president responsible for TCSX (total customer satisfaction function) at the Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (NML) headquarters in Yokohama.
Ping Xu, chairman of the Dongfeng Group and DFL said: "DFL, as the largest automotive joint venture in China, has been developing with outstanding achievements for ten years since its establishment in 2003. In fact, it has brought a great number of benefits for the parent companies, Dongfeng and Nissan, and all other stakeholders, and also has fulfilled its corporate social responsibilities to Chinese society.
"DFL has been recognized in China as a successful joint venture with a foreign company because of mutual, sincere collaboration, excellent business management and healthy development. Mr. Nakamura has made consistent efforts and contributed significantly to the harmonized, sustainable growth of DFL. I hope that the new president, Mr. Seki, will continue the course set by Mr. Nakamura to lead the DFL management team to further business success."
Hiroto Saikawa, chief competitive officer of NML, said: "I would like to thank our strategic partner, the Dongfeng Group, for their continued support and recognize Kimiyasu Nakamura for his six years of leadership and achievements in China. Under his leadership, China has grown to become one of our most important markets, representing a quarter of our total sales globally. To achieve the goals of our mid-term plan, Nissan Power 88, continued success in China is a necessity and Jun Seki takes over at an important time in the evolution of our business as we continue to further develop and expand our business opportunities in China."
Seki joined NML in 1986 and has held various management positions, including responsibility for powertrain production engineering. In April 2012, he was appointed corporate vice president of the Japan/Asia business, management of affiliated companies and Japanese domestic network. Seki has been based in Wuhan since April 2013, when he was appointed vice president of DFL responsible for product planning and the electric vehicle business.
