Renault-Nissan Alliance Senior Management Appointments

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PARIS and YOKOHAMA, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- John Martin, senior vice president, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management

and Purchasing, Nissan North America, Inc. is appointed head of Alliance

Manufacturing Engineering & Supply Chain Management.

- John Martin replaces Jérôme Olive, who has asked to be relieved from

operational duties for personal reasons. He will be leading a mission to

establish an Alliance Institute.

- Appointments are effective October 1st, 2017

The Renault-Nissan Alliance today announced that John Martin has been appointed

Alliance executive vice president, Alliance Manufacturing Engineering & Supply

Chain Management, effective October 1st.  He will report to Thierry Bolloré,

Renault chief competitive officer and Yasuhiro Yamauchi, Nissan chief

competitive officer. The Alliance converged manufacturing function covers

global industrial strategy (including sourcing), production process

engineering, production control and supply chain management.

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Martin, currently senior vice president, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management

and Purchasing, Nissan North America, Inc. replaces Olive, who will be leading

a mission to establish an Alliance Institute aiming at developing skills and

mindsets necessary for the sustainable performance of the Alliance. Olive next

assignment will be announced at a later time. For this mission, Olive will

report his conclusions to Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan

Alliance.

In his new position, Martin will be in charge of further accelerating

integration within the function and increasing the synergies. The Alliance

Manufacturing Engineering & Supply Chain Management function is one of four key

converged functions. The others are Purchasing, Engineering and Human

Resources, which were also set up on April 1, 2014.

The converged functions were created to accelerate efficiency and synergies

across the Alliance. The value of annualized synergies realized by the

Renault-Nissan Alliance rose to €5 billion in 2016, up from €4.3 billion in

2015. Converged operations in purchasing, engineering and manufacturing

contributed most of the €700 million synergy improvement.

Biographies

John Martin is senior vice president, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management

and Purchasing, Nissan North America, Inc., a position to which he was

appointed in January 2014. In this role, Martin reports to José Muñoz, chief

performance officer, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and chairman, Nissan North America.

Martin is responsible for managing all facets of Nissan's manufacturing

operations in the U.S.A. and Mexico, including all supply chain and purchasing

operations.

Martin joined Nissan Manufacturing U.K. Ltd. in 1991 as a senior controller,

Production Control.   

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SOURCE: Renault-Nissan Alliance