Fujio Cho was born on 1937-02-02.
Japanese
Fujio Cho
Toyota Motor Corporation
Dr. Taiichi Ohno, who would dramatically change the destinies of both Cho and Toyota.
Toyota Motor Corporation, 1 Toyota-cho, Toyota, Aichi 471, Japan
President and chief executive officer, Toyota Motor Corporation
Tokyo University, law degree, 1960
Cho was much more affable, personable, and low-key than the blunt-spoken Okuda.
In 1999 Okuda retired, and Cho became the second consecutive nonfamily Toyota president.
No sooner did Cho return to Japan than he was introduced to his next mentor, the new Toyota president Hiroshi Okuda.
The company was regarded as an outstanding corporate citizen, and in 2002 Cho was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering by the University of Kentucky.