{{Short description|Japanese business executive (born 1953)}} {{Infobox person | name = Takanobu Ito | image = Takanobu Ito, 2014.jpg | caption = Ito in 2014 | native_name = 伊東孝紳 | native_name_lang = ja | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|8|29|df=y}}<ref name=WSJ/> | birth_place = [[Tokyo]], Japan | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Business executive | employer = [[Honda]] | known_for = | boards = [[Honda]] }}
{{Nihongo|'''Takanobu Ito'''|伊東 孝紳|Itō Takanobu|born 29 August 1953}} is a Japanese [[business executive]] who led [[Honda]] from 2009 to 2015.
== Career == Takanobu joined Honda in April 1978<ref name="WSJ" /><ref name="Forb" /> and had also been an executive of Honda R&D since 1998 and was appointed as President and Director of Honda in April 2009.<ref name="Forb" /><ref name="WSJ" /> In February 2015, following a recall due to faulty airbags, he announced his resignation as Honda CEO in late June,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-23 |title=Honda, in unexpected move, says CEO Ito to step down |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2015/02/23/honda-in-unexpected-move-says-ceo-ito-to-step-down.html |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=CNBC |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-23 |title=Takanobu Ito Steps Down as Honda CEO |url=https://www.motortrend.com/news/takanobu-ito-steps-down-as-honda-ceo |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=MotorTrend |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-23 |title=Honda CEO Takanobu Ito is unexpectedly stepping down |url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/540597/honda-ceo-takanobu-ito-unexpectedly-stepping-down |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=The Week |language=en}}</ref> and was succeeded by [[Takahiro Hachigo]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Client Challenge |url=https://www.ft.com/content/55d39e2e-bb40-11e4-a31f-00144feab7de |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=www.ft.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-02-23 |title=Honda, Grappling With Quality Problems, Will Replace Its President (Published 2015) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/business/international/honda-replace-president-chief-executive-takanobu-ito.html |access-date=2025-08-15 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-23 |title=Honda president Takanobu Ito to step down after air-bag recall scandal - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/honda-president-takanobu-ito-to-step-down-after-air-bag-recall-scandal/ |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
Previously, Takanobu had been appointed Senior Managing Director of Honda R&D in June 2001, after Director of the Company in June 2000, following the position as Executive Vice President of Honda R&D Americas, Inc. since April 1998.<ref name="Forb" />
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="WSJ"> "Takanobu Ito". ''Wall Street Journal''. WSJ.com. 2013, webpage: [http://topics.wsj.com/person/I/takanobu-ito/6401 WSJ6401]. </ref> <ref name="Forb"> "Takanobu Ito – Forbes". Forbes.com. 2013, webpage: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121006043107/http://www.forbes.com/profile/takanobu-ito/ Forbes-tak]. </ref> }}
==External links== * [http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20130814D13HH489.htm "Honda's Ito Positions Automaker to Win in Asia"] (Nikkei.com, 14 August 2013).
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