Japanese chief executives

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: Akio Toyoda, Akira Mori, Atsushi Inaba, Bruce Anderson (businessman), Carlos Ghosn, Eik¿ Harada, Hajime Satomi, Hiromasa Yonekura, Howard Stringer, Isao Inokuma, Joi Ito, Kantaro Tomiyama, Katsuaki Watanabe, Katsuhiko Kawasoe, Kazuo Hirai, Kazuo Inamori, Keiichi Ishizaka, Keiji Tachikawa, Keiko Erikawa, Kenji Kamiyama (businessman), Ken Kobayashi, Ken Kutaragi, Makoto Kaneko, Mamoru Imura, Masayoshi Son, Michael Woodford (executive), Michimasa Fujino, Mikio Sasaki, Minoru Mori, Nobutada Saji, Nobuyuki Idei, Norio Ohga, Osamu Matsubara, Reiko Okutani, Satoru Kikugawa, Shigeo Maruyama, Shoichiro Toyoda, Sh¿jir¿ Ishibashi, Takafumi Horie, Takayuki Masuda, Takeo Fukui, Teruaki Yamagishi, Terunobu Maeda, Tomoyo Nonaka, Toru Takasuka, Toshio Kagami, William Saito, Yasuo Nishiguchi, Yoichi Wada, Yorihiko Kojima, Yoshihiko Miyauchi, Yukiyoshi Watanabe. Excerpt: Carlos Ghosn, KBE (Arabic: ¿, born 9 March 1954) is a French Lebanese Brazilian businessman who is currently the Chairman and CEO of Paris-based Renault and holds the same positions at Japan-based Nissan, which together produce more than one in 10 cars sold worldwide. Ghosn is also Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the strategic partnership overseeing the two companies through a unique cross-shareholding agreement. For orchestrating one of the decade's most aggressive downsizing campaigns and spearheading the turnaround of Nissan from near bankruptcy in the late 1990s, Ghosn earned the nicknames "le cost killer" and "Mr. Fix It." After the Nissan financial turnaround, he achieved celebrity status and ranks as one of the 50 most famous men in global business and politics. His life has been chronicled in a Japanese manga comic book. Called "the ultimate rock star of the industry," he has been recruited to run at least two other automakers, General Motors and Ford Motor Co. His decision to spend ¿4 billion so Renault and Nissan could jointly develop the world's first lineup of electric cars, starting with the Nissan Leaf, is a subject of the 2011 documentary Revenge of the Electric Car. On 28 June 2012, Ghosn was named Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO AVTOVAZ He also serves on the board of directors for Brazilian bank Itau Banco. He is also a member of International Advisory Council of Tsinghua University of Beijing, and American University of Beirut; and he is a member of the Strategic Council, Saint Joseph University of Beirut.. Ghosn's grandmother Bichala Ghosn emigrated from rural Lebanon to Brazil at the age of 13, eventually settling in remote Guaporé, Rondonia, near the border between Brazil and Bolivia. Bichala Ghosn entered the rubber industry and eventually headed a company that bought and sold agricultural products. His son Jorge Ghosn settled in the regional capital of Porto Velho and married a Nigerian-born woman whose family