Nissan's Americas chief has lofty goals: Exec seeks 10% U.S. share and success in booming Brazil

摘要

He was a 29-year-old night-shift manager at Rover Group's body plant near Oxford, England, when he applied to work at a new Nissan Motor Co. factory far to the north in Sunderland. Neighbors and colleagues warned him that the Japanese automaker was unproven. They said the plant probably would be gone in five to 10 years. But 27 years on, Golin Dodge has done all right. Now silver-haired with a thick white mustache at 56, Dodge was named chairman of Nissan's Americas region this summer, in charge of the United States and all markets north and south of it. That title, on top of a list of other corporate jobs, means that he now presides over about half of the planet for Japan's No. 2 automaker - North America, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and India.