Profile

Mr. Satoru Taniguchi has been serving as President and CEO of Toyota InfoTechnology Center in both Japan and the US since the beginning of this year. He brings to the Center a wealth of experience at Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan where he was responsible for a variety of important areas such as the development of electronics control system for engine management, air bag control and body electronics as a General Manager. He also assumed responsibilities for the evaluation engineering and vehicle planning at Toyota. One of Satoru's notable achievements is the design of electronics/electric platform architecture for Toyota vehicles. It allows the scalable electronics system development, and reduces the cost and weight remarkably. It supports and contributes to Toyota's next generation vehicle's design as TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture). Satoru also has spent several years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, leading a group o f electronics engineers at Toyota Technical Center USA for the design of the electronics system used in the vehicles for the US market.