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This is no surprise really. This is Toyota SOP. They typically rotate executives through different parts of the business every few years. Jack H. alluded to this when we were in Long Beach that he was "overdue" to be moved having been at Scion beyond the normal length of service in a single area.
Jack is definitely a marketing guy, but he is a car enthusiast as well. He's not a nuts-and-bolts, numbers guy, but he seems to enjoy his job and talking about cars.
Best of luck to him. Maybe he'll bring some of his enthusiasm to Toyota. The whole 1st86 program was Jack's idea, and he didn't really have full buy-in when he rolled with it (or so the story goes). You got to admit, they definitely got a huge marketing ROI on the small investment they've made in that program.
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