Yasuo Ohyama
Graduated from aeronautic faculty of Nagoya university
Various experience as design engineer at Toyota Motor Corporation for nearly 30 years, especially with body mechanism and electronics design.
Development and sales director at Brose Japan Limited, subsidiary of Brose Farhzeugteile Co. GmbH
Member of the board and CFO at Boshoku Automotive Europe GmbH, which was German subsidiary company of Toyota Boshoku Corporation.
Toyota Motor has its own business process solely developed over decades, which is very much different from global way of business and decision-making process. This makes extremely difficult for foreign supplier to enter Toyota’s supplier panel and gain trust from the Toyota worldwide.
Ohyama has been working at both Toyota Motor Corporation (in Japan and in the UK) and at a global supplier. With this experience he fully understands the difference between Toyota and the global standard.
Although his background is mechatronics engineering, he also understands business administration subject such as Finance, Marketing, Law and Human Relations at a high level. He has experience in financial controlling, M&A and private equity fund director.
