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New Organizational Reforms and Personnel Changes

November 14, 2017

IWATA, November 14, 2017—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following organizational reforms and personnel changes, effective November 15, 2017.

Organizational reforms

1.Vehicle & Solution Business Operations

The “Vehicle & Solution Business Operations” structure will change to achieve greater integration in executing strategies and strengthened governance in the Unmanned System business.


“UMS Business Development Section” Restructuring
The previously-independent strategy planning functions will be incorporated into the “Business Planning & Control Division”, and are to be renamed the “Business Promotion Division.”

Personnel changes

1.Change in duties of General Manager

(Name) (New position) (Current position)
Tetsuya Utsuhashi General Manager of Business Promotion Division, UMS Business Development Section, Vehicle & Solution Business Operations General Manager of Business Planning & Control Division, UMS Business Development Section, Vehicle & Solution Business Operations

2.Change in group companies

(Name) (New position) (Current position)
Michael Chrzanowski President of Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America Executive Vice President of Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America

Abbreviations;
・UMS = Unmanned System

Main businesses of the group companies referenced above;
・Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America: Manufacture and development of golf cars, personal watercraft, all-terrain vehicles, Recreational Off-highway vehicles and other products in the U.S.A.

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