Suzuki Motor : December 15Notice regarding Change in Organization, Responsibilities of Officers, and Personnel (as of 1 January 2024)

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15 December 2023

Notice regarding Change in Organization, Responsibilities of

Officers, and Personnel (as of 1 January 2024)

Suzuki Motor Corporation will make the following change in organization, responsibilities of officers, and personnel of executive general managers and general managers as of 1 January 2024.

1. Change in organization

• Technology Strategy, Automobile EV Engineering, Automobile Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automobile Vehicle Engineering, Automobile Powertrain Engineering, Regulations and Certification, and India Engineering will be placed under Chief Technology.
• Technology Strategy will be newly established to make strategies and lead their implementations for human resources, facilities, budgeting, and efficient development method (CAE/MBD) of engineering that would become the platform for technology development.
• Automobile Electrical/Electronic/EV Engineering will be divided into Automobile EV Engineering, which will oversee EV engineering/battery engineering, and Automobile Electrical and Electronic Engineering, which will oversee electric/electronic/SDV, to clarify the technology development field.
• Vehicle Regulations and Engineering Administration will be restructured and become Regulations and Certification.
• EV Operations will become BEV Solutions.

[Technology Strategy]

• Technology Platform Strategy Department and Automobile Experiment Analysis Department will be newly established.
• Automobile Technology Planning Department and Automobile Dynamical System CAE/MBD Management Department will be transferred from Automobile Powertrain Engineering, and Automobile Structural System CAE/MBD Management Department and Environment, Material & Manufacturing Engineering Development Department will be transferred from Automobile Vehicle Engineering.

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[Automobile EV Engineering]

• E Mobility Development Department will be transferred from EV Operations, in addition to Automobile EV Design Department, Automobile EV/HEV Drivetrain Design Department, and Automobile HEV Design Department.
• Automobile EV Battery Design Department and Automobile E3 Engineering Support Department will be newly established.

[Automobile Electrical and Electronic Engineering]

• Automobile Communication and Security Development Department, Automobile ADAS Development Department, and Automobile Control Design Promotion Department will be newly established, in addition to Automobile Electronic System Development Department, Automobile Electrical Design Department, and Automobile E/E Advanced Development Department.

[Automobile Vehicle Engineering]

• Automobile Vehicle Dynamic Performance Evaluation and Control Design Department will be newly established, in addition to Automobile Vehicle Engineering Planning Department, Automobile Vehicle Dynamics Design Department, Automobile Vehicle Experiment Department, Automobile Body Design Department, and Automobile Platform Design Department.

[Automobile Powertrain Engineering]

• Automobile PT Reliability Evaluation Department will be placed, in addition to Automobile Engine Design Department, Automobile Drivetrain Design Department, and Automobile Powertrain System Design Department.

[Quality Assurance and Inspection]

• Automobile Development Quality Evaluation Department will be transferred from Automobile Vehicle Engineering.

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2. Change in responsibilities of officers
	New	Name	Previous
	Representative Director and	Naomi Ishii	Representative Director and
	Executive Vice President,		Executive Vice President,
	Assistant to President,		Assistant to President,
	Responsible for		Responsible for
	Corporate Planning Office,		Corporate Planning Office,
	New Mobility Service,		New Mobility Service,
	BEV Solutions,		EV Operations,
	Human Resources		Human Resources
	Development, Legal/IP,		Development, Legal/IP,
	Global IT,		Global IT,
	and Product Planning,		and Product Planning,
	Executive General Manager,		Executive General Manager,
	Corporate Planning Office		Corporate Planning Office
	Senior Managing Officer,	Katsuhiro Kato	Senior Managing Officer,
	Chief Technology Officer,
	Responsible for		Responsible for
	Technology Strategy,		Vehicle Regulations and
	Automobile EV Engineering,		Engineering Administration,
	Automobile Electrical and		Automobile Vehicle
	Electronic Engineering,		Engineering, Automobile
	Automobile Vehicle		Powertrain Engineering, and
	Engineering, Automobile		Automobile Electrical/
	Powertrain Engineering,		Electronic/EV Engineering,
	Regulations and Certification,		and Executive General
	and India Engineering		Manager, Automobile
			Powertrain Engineering
	Managing Officer,	Shigeo Yamagishi	Managing Officer,
	Audit		Executive General Manager,
			Vehicle Regulations and
			Engineering Administration
	Managing Officer,	Hidetoshi Kumashiro	Managing Officer,
	Executive General Manager,		Executive General Manager,
	Automobile EV Engineering,		Automobile Electrical/
	and in charge of BEV		Electronic/EV Engineering,
	Technology,		and in charge of EV
	BEV Solutions		Technology,
			EV Operations

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3. Retirement of officer

	Name		Previous
	Yukihiro Yamashita	Senior Managing Officer,
		Based in Maruti Suzuki India Limited,
		and Chairman, Suzuki R&D Center
		India Private Limited
4. Change in personnel of executive general managers
	New	Name		Previous
	Executive General Manager,	Takahiko Hashimoto	Executive General Manager,
	BEV Solutions		EV Operations
	Executive General Manager,	Taku Sumino	Based in Maruti Suzuki India
	Technology Strategy		Limited
	Executive General Manager,	Takashi Sunda	In charge of Automobile
	Automobile Electrical and		Electrical/Electronic
	Electronic Engineering,		Engineering,
	and Department General		and Department General
	Manager,		Manager,
	Automobile ADAS		Automobile E/E Advanced
	Development Department,		Development Department,
	and Department General		Automobile Electrical/
	Manager,		Electronic/EV Engineering
	Automobile E/E Advanced
	Development Department
	Executive General Manager,	Hideki Takata	Department General
	Automobile Powertrain		Manager,
	Engineering		Automobile Drivetrain Design
				Department
	Executive General Manager,	Akihiro Kuroda	Department General
	Regulations and Certification		Manager,
				Vehicle Regulations and
				Certification Department

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5. Change in personnel of general managers [New Mobility Service]

	New	Name	Previous
	In charge of Mobility Linkage	Yoshiaki Sugimura	Department General
	Platform, New Mobility		Manager,
	Service		Automobile E/E Platform
			Development Department
[Technology Strategy]
	New	Name	Previous
	Department General	Masaru Chikahisa	Department General
	Manager,		Manager,
	Technology Platform Strategy		Product Security Promotion
	Department		Department
	Associate General Manager,	Toshinori Nagai	Department General
	Technology Platform Strategy		Manager,
	Department		Engineering Administration
			Department
	Department General	Masaki Kato	Group Manager,
	Manager,		Powertrain Analysis Group,
	Automobile Experiment		Automobile Powertrain
	Analysis Department		Planning & Analysis
			Department
[Automobile EV Engineering]
	New	Name	Previous
	Department General	Hiroshi Kamatsuke	Department General
	Manager,		Manager,
	Automobile EV Battery Design		Automobile EV Design
	Department		Department
	In charge of Battery Project,	Tatsuji Mori	Associate General Manager,
	Automobile EV Battery Design		Automobile HEV Design
	Department		Department
	Department General	Yasunori Nodera	Group Manager,
	Manager,		EV System Design Group,
	Automobile EV Design		Automobile EV Design
	Department		Department

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	Department General	Koichi Shibata		Group Manager,
	Manager,			HEV System Design Group,
	Automobile HEV Design			Automobile HEV Design
	Department			Department
	Department General	Miho Ohashi		Group Manager,
	Manager,			Design Support Group,
	Automobile E3 Engineering			Automobile Electrical Design
	Support Department			Department
[Automobile Electrical and Electronic Engineering]
	New	Name		Previous
	Department General	Fumiaki Kono		Department General
	Manager,			Manager,
	Automobile Communication			Advanced Control Design
	and Security Development			Process Development
	Department			Department
	Department General	Shuichi Naito		Department General
	Manager,			Manager,
	Automobile Control Design			Automobile HEV Design
	Promotion Department			Department
[Automobile Vehicle Engineering]
	New	Name		Previous
	Department General	Takashi Ibaraki		Supporting General Manager,
	Manager,			Automobile Vehicle Dynamics
	Automobile Vehicle Dynamic			Design Department
	Performance Evaluation and
	Control Design Department

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[Automobile Powertrain Engineering]
	New	Name	Previous
	Department General	Junji Shinojima	Department General
	Manager,		Manager,
	Automobile PT Reliability		Automobile Powertrain
	Evaluation Department		Planning/Analysis Department
	Department General	Takuya Fujimine	Group Manager,
	Manager,		Transmission Design Group,
	Automobile Drivetrain Design		Automobile Drivetrain Design
	Department		Department
[Regulations and Certification]
	New	Name	Previous
	Department General	Akira Takagi	Group Manager,
	Manager,		Automobile Japan and
	Vehicle Regulations and		Europe Certification Group,
	Certification Department		Vehicle Regulations and
			Certification Department
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