New leadership for Mitsubishi New Zealand

Mitsubishi’s New Zealand arm has new top-level management, with the company announcing this morning that current CEO and president Tomoki Yanagawa will be replaced by long serving company employee Warren Brown. Brown has been with Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand for over 22 years, beginning as a marketing coordinator in 1987 and progressing through the ranks. Yanagawa said he leaves his role with “the utmost confidence in my successor’s capability and vision in securing the continued success of Mitsubishi in New Zealand”. “Warren has been instrumental in helping to lead the company through eight years of consecutive growth and is backed by an exceptionally strong management team, who between them continue to drive the company forward to bigger and better things,” said Yanagawa. Brown said that while Yanagawa’s tenure was a success, his company’s NZ operations were still a work in progress. “The fresh insight and assured leadership that he delivered has helped take us to the next level. We know there is room for improvement and we know where we need and want to get to. We have a very clear set of goals in place and, just as importantly, the drive and commitment required to achieve them.”