Jim Press "one step below" Toyota’s Board

MercuryNews.com | 06/04/2006 | Toyota N. America marks a milestone

Here is another article about Toyota’s Jim Press, who along with Gary Convis, represents Americans rising high within Toyota’s corporate structure.

Later this month, Jim Press will become the first non-Japanese president of Toyota Motor North America, overseeing sales and engineering divisions as well as 12 manufacturing plants in the United States and Canada.

Press is also a managing director of Toyota, one step below the board of directors.

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