Akio Toyoda

Akio Toyoda (豊 田 章 男Japanese, Akio Toyoda, May 3, 1956 in Nagoya ) is the Chief Executive Officer ( Daihyō - torishimariyaku - shachō, dt " executive director and president ") of the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota ( Toyota JIDOSHA KK).

He is the eldest son of Shoichiro Toyoda and grandson of Kiichiro Toyoda Toyota company founder. He is the first Toyoda as director of automotive group since 1995 and with 53 years the youngest ever Toyota boss.

Akio Toyoda was set up in July 2009 as the new CEO of Toyota and to lead the largest automobile manufacturer in the world back in the black. Due to the global economic crisis drove Toyota in 2008 its first operating loss in the company's history.

In the 1990s, Toyoda built with some employees, the first Gazoo terminal as a presentation platform for pre-owned Toyota vehicles. This has grown in a few years the portal Gazoo.com, which became one of the most popular Japanese cyber malls. 2001, the portal already with those online purchases could be made over a million registered members and more than 3,200 public terminals.

Toyoda is an avid motorsports friend who strongly made ​​in the Group for the development of sports models such as the Lexus IS- F and Lexus LF -A. He took three times under the pseudonym " Morizo ​​Kinoshita " as a driver at the ADAC 24 -hour race at the Nürburgring. In 2009 he joined it in the newly developed LF-A prototype no. 14 to, with whom he was ranked 87 (Rank 4 in its class ).