Tetsuo Agata
President
JTEKT CORPORATION
Born in 1953, Agata graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1976 and started his career at Toyota Motor Co. Ltd. (now Toyota Motor Corporation). After serving as Senior Managing Director of Toyota Motor and Executive Vice President of Toyota Industries, he has been President of JTEKT since 2013. Personal interests include visiting castle ruins.
In 1988, JTEKT was first in the world to develop and succeed in mass production of electric power steering systems. It maintains global top share to date and now strives to develop steering systems for autonomous driving vehicles.
JTEKT is a machine tools manufacturer and also develops production line control systems. It is also working on evolving its factories to smart factories and plans to offer the technical knowledge acquired through this process to other companies.