| Kazumutsu(Kazu) Azuma has a master degree of electronics system engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has been working at Toyota Motor Corporation in electronics R&D division, especially for body mechatronics controllers and sensors. |  |
| Masayuki(Masa) Nomura has a bachelor degree of engineering at Tokyo university. He has been working at Toyota Motor Corporation in Body mechanics R&D division. He continued to develop new products at Aisin Corporation. |  |
| Masachika(Massy) Kamiya has been working at Toyota Motor as an electronics engineer. He has exceptional experience in development of body control ECUs, wireless communication as well as homologation process in EMC/EMI and vehicle security. |  |
| Masakatsu(Mat) Tsubouchi has been working for 40 years at Toyota Motor Corporation in R&D department mainly at Body Structure, Exterior, Closures Function, Exhaust and Fuel System. Most lately he has been responsible for Heat and Energy Management technology. He also has long experience in education and training of young engineering staff. |  |
| Yuichi(Yu) Tsuchiya
Joined Mitsubishi Motors after graduating from university. In the production engineering department, he engaged in production preparation and production technology development. After that, he joined Toyota Motor Corporation and was also involved in resin parts in the production technology department. He was assigned to move to Toyota’s European headquarters (Belgium) for 5 years, where he worked to improve the quality, cost and productivity of local suppliers. He established Liaison International Co., Ltd. in November 2019. He provides problem-solving support for small-medium manufacturing enterprises. |  |
| Tetsuya(Tetsu) Umizawa
Graduated from the Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. Since joining Toyota Motor Corporation, he has consistently engaged in factory cost management, procurement, and parts purchasing management for overseas projects. Director of Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited (Bangalore, India), and Managing Director of Toyoda Gosei Minda India PVT Ltd (India); 3 years in Thailand (Bangkok); 7 years in India (Bangalore, Delhi area) He has extensive overseas knowledge through his work overseas. He is particularly knowledgeable about India and has extensive connections with Indian suppliers. |  |
| Shin Ikura
After graduating from the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University, he joined Toyota Motor Corporation, where he had worked for 39 years. He worked in vehicle production technology, vehicle machinery (including five years stationed in the United States ), factory quality control, and body design engineering. His areas of expertise are plastic processing, Statistical Quality Control, and CAD/CAM/CAE(FEM). |  |
| Tak Katayama
Joined Toyota Motor Corporation after graduating from Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University. Since then, consistently engaged in the design of car bodies contributing to the development of new cars and technologies. Experienced 3 times of overseas assignment totaling 10 years (in the UK, Belgium and South Africa). Possesses comprehensive knowledge of upper car body parts and has led business operation with overseas entities and suppliers. TOEIC scored 870. |  |
