is the former president and
CEO of
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a producti ...
He is from
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
,
Japan, though his mother gave birth to him in Hiroshima to escape intensifying air raids during
World War II
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. He graduated from
Waseda University
, mottoeng = Independence of scholarship
, established = 21 October 1882
, type = Private
, endowment =
, president = Aiji Tanaka
, city = Shinjuku
, state = Tokyo
, country = Japan
, students = 47,959
, undergrad = 39,382
, postgrad ...
with a bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry. He began working at Honda in April 1969.
Career
Fukui worked on the CVCC (Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion) engine as his first project at Honda to reduce toxic exhaust emissions. The CVCC, which became the base for the
Honda Civic car, became the first vehicle to comply with the 1975
U.S. Clean Air Act without a catalytic converter. A motorsports fan, he joined Honda for its participation in the Formula One races, and many years later served as the representative for the Honda works team upon their first, and only, victory at the
2006 Hungarian Grand Prix
The 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Magyar Nagydíj 2006) was a Formula One motor race held on 6 August 2006 at the Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary. It was the 13th race of the 2006 Formula One season. Jenson Button won ...
.
Positions
* Honda Motor Company, 1969–1979, engineer;
* Honda R&D Company, 1979–1982, chief engineer;
* Honda Racing Corporation, 1982–1983, chief engineer; 1983–1985, director; 1985–1987, executive vice president;
* Honda R&D Company, 1987–1988, managing director;
* Honda Racing Corporation, 1987–1988, president;
* Honda Motor Company, 1988–1990, director;
* Honda R&D Company, 1990–1991, senior managing director;
* Honda Motor Company, 1991–1992, general manager of Motorcycle Development; 1992–1994, general manager of Hamamatsu Factory, Motorcycle Operations;
* Honda of America Manufacturing, 1994–1996, executive vice president and director;
* Honda Motor Company, 1996–1998, managing director;
* Honda of America Manufacturing, 1996–1998, president and director;
* Honda R&D Company, 1998–2003, president;
* Honda Motor Company, 1999–2003, senior managing and representative director; 2003–February 2009, president and CEO.
References
Profile at grandprix.com
1944 births
Living people
Honda people
Japanese chief executives
Formula One people
Japanese motorsport people
Businesspeople from Tokyo
Waseda University alumni
20th-century Japanese businesspeople
21st-century Japanese businesspeople
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