Renault-Nissan Names New Head for Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing

The Renault-Nissan alliance has named Jerome Olive to take over as executive vice president of manufacturing engineering and supply chain management on Aug. 1.

Olive currently is senior vice president of manufacturing and logistics for Renault in Europe. He will succeed Shohei Kimura, who has a new manufacturing assignment at Nissan.

Olive, 57, has worked for Renault since 1982. He has held his current position for the past 19 months.