Kazuo Toda
Adviser of the Council, IAUD/Former Vice President, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.:Japan
February 1941 Born in Osaka Prefecture
| 1964 | Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Shiga University and joined Matsushita Electronics Industrial Co., Ltd (present Panasonic Corporation) |
| 1970 | Worked in product planning in the acoustic instrument business division (high-quality audio products with a focus on products for the launch of Technics) |
| 1986 | Placed in charge of business promotion of the car electronics business at headquarters (Business Planning) at Matsushita Electric Industrial |
| 1988 | Placed in charge of the Home Appliance Business Division (General Manager, Kitchen Appliance Division, General Manager, Washing Machine Division, 1992: Director, Home Appliance Business Division) |
| 1995 | Director of Home Appliance Business, 1997: Managing Director |
| 1999 | Executive Director, Home Appliance & Housing Electronics Company, President |
| 2002 | Executive Director, Domestic Home Appliance Sales Chairman, International Association for Universal Design (2002 - 2006) |
| 2003 | Executive Director and Executive Vice President (Domestic Home Appliance Sales, Advertising, Design, Logistics, and Brand) (Promoted various reforms in the management of the Matsushita Group) |
| 2005 | Instituted measures on behalf of the president to address accidents involving FF-type kerosene fan heaters. |
| 2006 | Resigned as Executive Vice President, Matsushita Electronics Industrial Co., Ltd. Appointed Chancellor of the Matsushita Domestic Marketing University |
| 2007 - present | Appointed principal of Bunka Gakuen (2009: Managing Director) Specially Appointed Professor, Shiga University Specially Appointed Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology Outside Director, ASKUL Corporation |
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