Kazuya Hayafune is a businessperson who has been at the head of 6 different companies is Managing Executive Officer & GM-Automotive at NIDEC Corp. and on the board of 8 other companies.

In the past Mr. Hayafune held the position of Chairman of Nidec Automobile Motor (Zhejiang) Corp., Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Nidec Copal Electronics GmbH, Chairman at NIDEC (Dalian) Ltd., Co-Managing Director at NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GmbH and Director & First Senior Vice President at Nidec GPM GmbH.