Hiroshi Okuda Photographer: Haruyoshi Yamaguch/Bloomberg
Hiroshi Okuda , who served as president and then chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died, according to Japans Kyodo News wire. He was 93.
A lifetime Toyota employee, Okuda joined just as it began establishing itself as a manufacturing powerhouse in the post-World War II era and rose through the ranks to become president Bloomberg Terminal in 1995 the first person to do so from outside the companys founding family in a generation.
据日本共同社报道，上世纪90年代末至21世纪初曾担任丰田汽车公司总裁及董事长的奥田硕（Hiroshi Okuda）已去世，享年93岁。
奥田硕作为丰田的终身员工，在二战后公司正崛起为制造业巨头之际加入，并通过层层晋升于1995年成为彭博终端显示的总裁——他是整整一代人中首位非丰田创始家族出身获此职位者。
