Tsutsumu Otani To Be The New President, CEO & MD Of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India

Honda Motor Co. has announced the new top management in Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI).

Tsutsumu Otani will be taking on new responsibility as the President, CEO & Managing Director of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India. Otani is also a Vice President at Honda Motor Japan.   

Otani shall be the successor of Atsushi Ogata, who after spearheading Honda’s Indian two-wheeler operations for 3 years, returns to Shanghai, China with effect from 01 April 2023; as the Executive General Manager at Shanghai Branch, Honda Motor (China) Investment. 

Executive brief of Tsutsumu Otani

Born in 1968, Otani started his career with Honda Japan in the year 1997. In the year 2001, Otani served in the motorcycle section, responsible for Europe. In 2005, he joined Honda Italy Industriale S.P.A for 5 years. In 2010, he was responsible for South America from Japan HQ, later in 2011 he moved to Honda Motor Argentina & further in 2013, he shifted to Honda South America.

Next in 2015, he returned to Japan as manager of the Motorcycle Business Division. In 2016, Otani moved to the Sales Planning section of the same division. From 2017 to 2022, he was designated as the President of Sundiro Honda Motorcycle. Last year, in 2022, Otani was appointed as Executive General Manager of Shanghai Branch Honda Motor (China) Investment.

With his 26 years of experience at Honda across Europe, Japan, China, South America, Otani shall be taking over as the new President, CEO and MD of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India and Vice President of Honda Motor, Japan.

Changes in the Board of Directors

Entering its 23rd year of Indian operations, HMSI has also further strengthened its senior leadership team to strategically steward the brand towards market leadership in the disruptive future.

As part of this move, Vinay Dhingra (earlier Director – General & Corporate Affairs, Strategic Information System and Honda India Foundation, HMSI) is now further elevated as the Senior Director – Human Resource & Administration, Corporate Affairs, Information Technology and Honda India Foundation. Additionally, Yogesh Mathur (Previously Operating Officer, Sales and Marketing) and Sanjeev Jain (earlier Operating Officer - New Model Purchase & Parts Strategy) are now elevated to the Board of Directors of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India.

Yogesh Mathur as the new Director will be responsible for Customer Service, Logistics Planning & Control, Premium Motorcycle Business along with Sales & Marketing.

Further Sanjeev Jain as the new Director will be responsible for Purchase. He will be replacing V. Sridhar who was Sr. Director, Purchase and has Retired from the company after completing over 23 years of association with HMSI.