TOKYO (AP) — The Toyota executive who wrote the “global vision” announced by the president says the changes at the automaker can’t fix all crises but will speed up response to recalls.
Real Tanguay, 61, a Canadian, who oversees Toyota Motor Corp.’s North American manufacturing, is emerging as the main risk-management expert — a stark and rare sign of openness to a non-Japanese at a conservative company that has no foreigners on its board.
Tanguay, a 20-year veteran at Toyota, said Thursday that the vision announced Wednesday sets the tone for where Toyota is headed not only for employees and business partners but also to the outside world.
