Nissan CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of Nissan?

The CEO of Nissan is Hiroto Saikawa.

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Nissan CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Hiroto Saikawa is the Nissan's CEO. Nissan has 13,000 employees, of which 18 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Nissan executive team is 22% female and 78% male.
59% of the management team is White.
14% of Nissan management is Hispanic or Latino.
9% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Hiroto Saikawa

CEO / President

Makoto Uchida

Board Member

Jeff Younginer

Board Member

Jérémie Papin

Senior Vice President

Tiago Castro

Regional Vice President

William Orange

Vice President

Over twenty-five years of progressive experience with digital transformation, business transformation, Information Technology and Systems Implementation with a broad range of tools and technologies for a variety of enterprise business functions and industries. Have led large scale global technology implementations involving all phases of the life cycle from business plan definition through system deployment as well and overall Enterprise Architecture. Extensive experience and expertise digital transformation, business and IT strategy with real business value and ROI. Leadership experience in managing project teams global and highly matrixed organizations, and budget management responsibility of 100+M multi-million dollar portfolio budgets for several Fortune 500 companies.

Specialties: Leading Results Driven Organizations, Digital Transformation, Strategic Business Planning, Collaborative Leadership Organization Change Mgmt, Global Leadership,Customer Experience Product and Agile Mindset, Revenue & Budget Accountability, Information Security Mgmt, Compliance Mgmt, Program & Project Leadership, Innovation, Stakeholder Mgmt and Partnership, IS/IT Delivery and Operations

Anne Corrao

Director, Chief Marketing Manager - Family Sedans & Sports Cars

Anne Corrao is a Director, Chief Marketing Manager - Family Sedans & Sports Cars at Nissan North America and is based in Franklin, Tennessee. She has worked as Board Member at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Anne studied at Boston University between 1988 and 1992 and University of Miami between 1994 and 1996.

Dave Mazur

VP:Customer/Chief Customer Ofcr

Dave Mazur is a VP:Customer/Chief Customer Ofcr at Nissan North America, Chief Operating Officer at Carputty, and Principal at Mazur Automotive and is based in Franklin, Tennessee. He has worked as Vice President, Customer Quality, Chief Customer Officer and Market Intelligence at Nissan Motor Co Ltd; VP:Market Intelligence at Nissan North America; and Exec Dir:Morth America at GENERAL MOTORS CO. Dave studied at Harvard Business School between 1989 and 1991, Harvard University, and University of Michigan between 1977 and 1982.

Dena Ashley

Manager, PMO, Regional CIO Office

Dena Ashley is a Manager, PMO, Regional CIO Office at Nissan North America and is based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has worked as Director of Finance at EBC Executive Business Co., Sr. Portfolio Manager Information Systems at Nissan Motor Co Ltd, and Project Manager - Infrastructure at Nissan Motor Co Ltd. Dena studied at Middle Tennessee Electric between 1990 and 1992.

Denis Vot

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio

Hiroto Saikawa

CEO / President

Makoto Uchida

Board Member

Jeff Younginer

Board Member

Tiago Castro

Regional Vice President

Denis Vot

Board Member

Jose Valls

Board Member

Nissan leadership demographics

Nissan gender distribution in management team

The Nissan executive team is 22% female and 78% male.
Nissan is 33% female and 67% male company-wide.

Male

78%

Company-wide: 67%

Female

22%

Company-wide: 33%

Nissan executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among Nissan executive officers is White.
59% of the management team is White.
15% of Nissan's management is Asian.
14% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
59% of employees are White.
17% of employees are Black or African American.
12% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.

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What employees say about the executives at Nissan

Employee reviews

3.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Mar 2022

Pros of working at Nissan

I like that in the past I was given a lot of responsibility from project management to detailed research and supervision of the technical library

Cons of working at Nissan

I’ve currently been given a large task that is not using my skill sets

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4.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Feb 2021

Pros of working at Nissan

professionalism and brotherhood were a strong point,when somebody needed help no matter what all the team was there for help

Cons of working at Nissan

sometimes was a little bit bored because we didn't have enough work for all of us

Nissan benefits

time to go to the gym or make exercise

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5.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Jun 2020

Pros of working at Nissan

Good benefits pay was excellent like working for my boss

Cons of working at Nissan

There is nothing I disliked about working there

Nissan benefits

The bonus money

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1.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Oct 2018

Pros of working at Nissan

Competitive Pay. It's neat to see all of the cars we build and the process in which they are made. I do enjoy some of my coworkers.

Cons of working at Nissan

Work Life balance, management, poor employee morale, terrible hours. It feels like you're a number and not a person within the plant.

Nissan benefits

Lease Car is nice.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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