Norihito Tanahashi named senior VP at Denso Products & Services Americas

Denso Products and Services Americas, Inc. has named Norihito “Jack” Tanahashi as senior vice president of Original Equipment Supplier (OES) Sales.

Tanahashi oversees Denso Products and Services Americas sales of Denso original equipment (OE) products to all the major automakers.

Tanahashi joined Denso in 1988. In 1995, he began a series of overseas assignments supplying new Toyota vehicles with Denso OE automotive parts.He transferred to DENSO Europe where he was posted first in the U.K., then in Amsterdam. In 2000, he established Denso’s Toyota sales office in Brussels.

In 2006, Tanahashi returned to Japan to serve as general manager of Toyota sales at DENSO corporate headquarters. In 2010, he was promoted to president of DENSO Sales Australia and later vice president of DENSO Australia. Prior to joining DENSO Products and Services Americas, he was general manager of DENSO OE sales for Mitsubishi.

Tanahashi became senior vice president of OES Sales at Denso Products and Services Americas in January. He works out of the company’s new office in Plano, Tex., as well as its headquarters in Long Beach, Calif.

DENSO Products and Services Americas, Inc. is an automotive components sales, remanufacturing and distribution company that employs 500 people in Long Beach and Murrieta, Calif. The company’s product line includes heavy-duty and automotive alternators, starters, oil, cabin and air filters, spark plugs, AC compressors, oxygen sensors, ignition wires, fuel pumps, fuel injectors and wiper blades. DENSO Products and Services Americas supplies parts for original equipment service dealers,independent aftermarket service centers and retailers. In addition, the company distributes heavy-duty diesel and electrical components, portable commercial air-conditioning units and industrial robots.

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