The move signals an effort by the Japanese company to add diversity.
Automaker Toyota has promoted American Julie Hamp, the current head of communications for North America, to managing officer. She’ll be the first female executive in Toyota’s 77-year history, according to Bloomberg.
The move signals a push for diversity among the ranks of Toyota executives, who are mostly Japanese men.
“Toyota has realized that they’re not a Japanese carmaker, they’re a world carmaker,” Edwin Merner, president of Atlantis Investment Research in Tokyo, told Bloomberg. “If they’re going to understand overseas markets and plan, design and build cars, then they have to have people who have a good understanding of those markets.”
From Toyota in a statement:
By appointing talented people from affiliates outside Japan to executive positions, Toyota aims to foster innovation by enabling people from many different backgrounds to contribute and provide input.
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