Nissan Announces Management Changes

Tokyo (ots/PRNewswire) - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., today announced
changes to its senior global management team. All changes are
effective April 1, 2007.

"The priority for our new management team is to act decisively on
the multiple challenges facing Nissan and to boost our overall
performance in 2007," said Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn.

Executive Vice Presidents

- Hidetoshi Imazu, senior vice president, vehicle production
engineering division is appointed executive vice president,
manufacturing and SCM. Imazu will be proposed as a director of the
company at the annual general shareholders meeting in June.

- Tadao Takahashi, executive vice president, manufacturing is
appointed vice chairman with responsibility for external and
government affairs and the intellectual asset management. Takahashi
replaces Takeshi Isayama who is retiring from the company

- Carlos Tavares, executive vice president, corporate planning,
product planning, market intelligence, brand management, design,
program management, LCV business adds the control function and the
Infiniti business to his responsibilities.

- Mitsuhiko Yamashita, executive vice president, research and
development adds the total customer satisfaction function to his
responsibilities.

Senior Vice Presidents

- Colin Dodge, senior vice president, manufacturing, Nissan Europe
is appointed senior vice president, general overseas markets (GOM),
China operations and global information systems. Dodge will also
serve on the Nissan executive committee.

- Junichi Endo, senior vice president, global aftersales and
conversion business adds global marketing and sales to his
responsibilities. Endo will also serve on the Nissan executive
committee.

- Kazumasa Katoh, senior manager, CEO/COO office, is appointed
senior vice president, total customer satisfaction function

- Philippe Klein, senior vice president in Renault, is appointed
senior vice president, CEO/COO office and corporate administration
which includes the Alliance coordination office, security office and
legal department.

- Toshiharu Sakai, corporate vice president, powertrain production
engineering division is appointed senior vice president, production
engineering division.

Regional Management Committees

- Colin Dodge, is appointed chairman, management committee for
GOM, replacing Toshiyuki Shiga.

- Hidetoshi Imazu is appointed chairman, management committee for
Europe, replacing Hiroto Saikawa.

- Itaru Koeda, executive vice president and co-chairman continues
as chairman, management committee for affiliate companies and
management committee for dealers (Japan)

- Hiroto Saikawa, executive vice president, purchasing is
appointed chairman, management committee for the Americas, replacing
Carlos Ghosn.

- Toshiyuki Shiga, chief operating officer, continues as chairman,
management committee for Japan.

Corporate Vice Presidents

Five individuals will be newly appointed as corporate vice
presidents and become corporate officers. Six corporate officers will
retire or leave the company.

- Toshifumi Hirai is appointed corporate vice president, external
and government affairs and intellectual asset management. Hirai was
previously president of the Tokyo Commodity Exchange.

- Atsushi Hirose, plant manager of Yokohama plant, is appointed
corporate vice president, powertrain production engineering division

- Takao Katagiri, president of Autech Japan, is appointed
corporate vice president, marketing, Japan.

- Mark McNabb is appointed corporate vice president, global
Infiniti business.

- Masaaki Nishizawa, general manager, human resources division, is
appointed corporate vice president, global aftersales division, Japan
aftersales division and GOM aftersales division.

Nissan Fellow

- Kimio Tomita, expert leader, powertrain engineering division, is
appointed to the new position of Nissan Fellow, powertrain. The new
designation of 'Nissan Fellow' recognizes an individual's expertise
in a specific business area.

Officers retiring or leaving Nissan

- Takeshi Isayama, vice chairman, will retire

- Eiji Imai, senior vice president, quality, will retire

- Yusuke Sekiguchi, corporate vice president, marketing, Japan,
will be proposed as President of Kanagawa Nissan (dealer)

- Hiroshi Moriya, corporate vice president, purchasing, will be
proposed as senior vice president, Calsonic Kansei

- Shigeru Murata, corporate vice president, program director, will
be proposed as Adviser, NIDEC TOSOK

For more information, contact:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Communications CSR Department
Global Communications CSR and IR Division
Tel:+81-(0)3-5565-2141
http://press.nissan-global.com/EN

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Contact:
For more information, contact: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Communications
CSR Department, Global Communications CSR and IR Division,
Tel:+81-(0)3-5565-2141, http://press.nissan-global.com/EN


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