The executive who wrote Toyota Motor Corp.'s "global vision" announced by the president said Thursday that the changes at the automaker can't fix all crises but will speed up response to recalls.
Real Tanguay, 61, a Canadian, who oversees Toyota Motor Corp.'s North American manufacturing, is emerging as the main risk-management expert — a stark and rare sign of openness to a non-Japanese at a conservative firm that has no foreigners on its board.
Tanguay, a 20-year veteran at Toyota, was the one President Akio Toyoda turned to in drafting Toyota's long-term goals, released Wednesday, to set the tone for where it was headed not only for employees and business partners but also to the outside world.