Diana Torres is the brand new managing director of Nissan Motors Nice Britain (NMGB), the place she’ll oversee gross sales and advertising and marketing operations within the UK, Nissan’s largest European market.
Beginning on April 1, Torres will work from Nissan’s Maple Cross head workplace close to London and report back to Mayra Gonzáles, divisional vice chairman of promoting and gross sales in Europe.
Torres replaces Andrew Humberstone as MD, bringing over 10 years of expertise at Nissan in varied world, regional, and market roles, together with positions in North America and Latin America.
Earlier than becoming a member of Nissan, Torres labored within the aviation and banking industries throughout Europe. She earned an govt MBA from London Enterprise College in 2011.
Her first function with Nissan was within the UK, as a senior finance controller on the Sunderland meeting plant. She stated: “I’m thrilled to be again within the UK the place my profession with Nissan began 12 years in the past.
“I sit up for main a extremely succesful group who – along with our valued supplier companions – have delivered implausible outcomes lately.
“We face a interval of serious change within the trade and might want to construct a tradition of collaboration, partnership and innovation to make sure our continued development and success.
“I sit up for open and clear communications with our stakeholders and community companions as we glance to remodel the enterprise, and ship a brand new period of design, electrification and connectivity to our clients.”
Humberstone (pictured), who served as Nissan’s UK chief since 2020, changing the short-lived MD Kalyana Sivagnanam, is transferring to turn out to be head of Nissan’s Oceania area.
Leon Dorssers, Nissan senior vice chairman for gross sales and advertising and marketing in Europe, stated Torres’ “imaginative and prescient, expertise, and high-performance monitor file” maked her ideally positioned to steer one among Nissan’s most necessary markets by a interval of fast transformation and shift to electrification.
Dorssers stated Humberstone had efficiently led NMGB by a interval of development, transformation, and robust enterprise efficiency, and he thanked him for driving vital enhancements to the standard of service and illustration of the UK supplier community, and for his management in DEI regionally and regionally.
- Individually, Nicolas Belaud joins from Nissan Motors Thailand, the place he led the aftersales division, to start a brand new problem within the UK as NMGB aftersales director from April 1. He takes over from Chris Marsh, who has been appointed as director, aftersales importers and companies repairs for the AMIEO area.
