Mazda Motor Europe (MME) has named Jiro Maebayashi, currently general manager of the basic design department at its Hiroshima headquarter, to vice president of Mazda’s European research and development centre (MRE) in Oberursel, near Frankfurt.
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Maebayashi replaces Kiyoshi Fujiwara, who has held the position since March 2003, and will return to HQ in Japan as general manager of the product planning and business strategy division.
Maebayashi, 58, has worked for Mazda Motor Corporation for 33 years, holding a variety of positions, including manager and general manager positions at the automaker’s research and development centres in the US and in Yokohama, Japan. Prior to this, he was chief programme engineer for the first generation of the Demio (called the 2 for export) and was a key developing engineer for the first and second generation RX-7.
MME recently named Philip Waring, currently managing director of Mazda Motors UK (MMUK) as vice president of sales from August 1. Waring replaces James Muir who was appointed president and CEO at the end of April.
Waring, 48, joined Mazda in 2001 as dealer operations director at MMUK and became managing director in June 2003. Prior to working for Mazda, he held various management positions for Ford in the UK in sales and marketing, including sales director at First Ford and general field manager in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
