| Hajime Emura has been working at Toyota Motor Corporation in Body R&D department as well as vehicle planning department. He worked 3 years in the UK and for 8 years in the USA. |  |
| Kazumutsu 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 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. |  |
| Yoshimasa Ishiguro has been working at Toyota Motor Corporation in Body R&D department as well as vehicle planning department. Later he moved to Shiroki Corporation and subsequently to Aisin, and has been responsible for R&D of various body functional and exterior components. Based on above, he has wide and strong relationship with Toyota Japan and US technical centers, Toyota related companies and Toyota Tier1 suppliers. He worked in the US for 8 years and more. |  |
| Masachika 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 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. |  |
| Tetsuro Hitoshi
has been in charge of HR, Purchasing and new energy business development at Toyota Motor Corporation. He worked at Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd as an executive director, as well as senior vice president at NUMMI, Toyota’s California operation. His last career is president at Toyota Energy Solution before his retirement. He has wide network with Toyota group suppliers. |  |
| Yo Tokuda
Graduated from Machining technology at Osaka university, joined Toyota Motor Corporation He has been working at instrumental panel, seat, interior and HVAC design and development for more than 30 years. He then joined Toyota Boshoku Corporation and is responsible for plastic component R&D for 7 years at Bangkok, Thailand. |  |
| Junzo (Charlie) Ukai
Currently he is Professor of Nagoya Univ.- Institute of Innovation for Future Society and working for Semiconductors business as material R&D manager. And furthermore, PhD candidate in Nagoya University, working for Carbon surface improvement mainly for Li ion Battery (2024/3）. He has been in charge of almost all kind of material for automotive since he joined Toyota motor corp. for 38 years, which includes metal, non-metal, plastics and materials for HEVE such as motor investor and battery. E-MBA degree at Michigan University in 2003、TOEIC 910 |  |
| Tsuchiya Yuichi
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. |  |
| Toshiyuki Asano
Joined Toyota Motor Corporation after graduating from the master course in mechanical engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology. He has been in the R&D area ever since and experienced in body engineering area such as Body-in-white and exterior components. He has overseas assignment in the UK, Turkey, and China Guangzhou for total of 12 years, therefore understands culture difference very well. |  |
| Umizawa Tetsuya
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. |  |
| Eto Toyohiko
After completed master course in engineering at Kyushu university, Eto joined Toyota Motor in 1980. Experienced in various area of engineering, such as Body structure, EV and HEV development in Toyota Motor, continued battery development and production at Prime Earth EV energy and at Kyoho SS. Mr Eto has been in battery development field for more than 30 years and has numbers of Intellectual Property. |  |
| Hasegawa Yasunori
Is graduated from Waseda University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Business Engineering Department. He has worked in the field of interior R&D at Toyota Motor Corporation for about 25 years. He then moved to China Minth group and served as general manager of the R&D center and later president of Japan branch office. Currently he runs his family company called G-cube, which is real estate management and consulting. |  |
