Yokohama Tire Corp. Announces 3 Major Corporate Changes

Yokohama Tire Corp. Announces 3 Major Corporate Changes

These new appointments include the positions of chairman, CEO and president.

Yokohama Tire Corp. (YTC) announced three major organizational promotions effective immediately:

Hideto Katsuragawa was named chairman of YTC. Katsuragawa, a YRC board member and senior managing corporate officer, remains president and CEO of Yokohama Corp. of North America (YCNA), which oversees all Yokohama-related operations in North America, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokyo, Japan-based The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC).

Shinichi Takimoto, also a YRC corporate officer, was named CEO of YTC, Yokohama Tire Canada and Yokohama Tire Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.

Jeff Barna, who joined YTC in January of 2017 as chief operating officer, was named president of YTC. Barna’s expanded role will now include oversight of the company’s OE sales, export sales and human resource functions, which complements his current responsibilities of sales, marketing, product management, supply chain/logistics, project management and business analytics.

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