"The key figure to bring down Ghosn-Harry Nada, former senior vice president of Nissan"
Harry Nada joined Nissan in 1990, and later attracted the attention of Greg Kelly, Ghosn's right-hand man, because of his confident management style, and entered the CEO's office of Nissan in 20 14 and 1 year. Kelly is in charge of human resources, legal affairs and other company departments. Nada then took over part of Kelly's work, responsible for corporate affairs such as legal affairs, compliance and safety, and indirectly became the secretary and assistant of Ghosn, the head of Nissan at that time. After Hirohito Nishikawa succeeded Ghosn as CEO, Nada became the former assistant.
After introducing the basic character relationship, let's take a look at how Nada brought down Ghosn step by step. First of all, as Ghosn's assistant, Nada knows that Ghosn has been breeding the idea of further integrating Renault and Nissan since the beginning of 20 18, and wants to merge Renault-Nissan Alliance and Fiat Chrysler Group (FCA), surpassing Volkswagen and Toyota to become the world's first automobile giant. At the same time, Ghosn was not satisfied with Hiroshi Nishikawa's performance, so he discussed with his assistant Kelly to replace Hiroshi Nishikawa with Mu? oz, the third person whose internal influence is second only to Ghosn and Hiroshi Nishikawa.
Hirohito Nishikawa is the shortest CEO in Nissan history.
Nada used two contradictions. The first is the RAMA agreement between Renault Group and Nissan Motor Company. It is reported that Renault Group owns 43% of Nissan Motor Company, and Nissan Motor Company only holds 65,438+05% of Renault Group and has no voting rights. With the strong rise of Nissan, its automobile production and sales exceeded Renault Group, and the friction between the two sides continued. Many people inside Nissan are dissatisfied with Renault. Secondly, Nishikawa Hiroyuki is one of the people who complain about Renault, and often disagrees with Mu? oz, leading to discord.
Nada tends to support Nishikawa Hiroshi, so at the beginning of 20 18, Nada hired Wavestone, a French network security company, to obtain Ghosn's mailbox in the name of testing and evaluating Nissan's network security. However, this intrusion into Ghosn's mailbox in the name of testing was not only notified to Nissan's major shareholders, but also notified to Nishikawa Hiroshi and other management personnel before it was completed, until Nissan's technical director accidentally noticed and discovered the intrusion.
Ghosn was arrested on June 20 18 1 1, and finally fled Japan.
The invasion lasted from March 2065438 to August 2008, and Nada began to cooperate with Japanese prosecutors and enjoy intelligence. Nissan lawyers and Tokyo District Supervision Office both obtained Ghosn's salary plan through Nada. This is also the source where Ghosn was accused of "allegedly underreporting his remuneration" when he was arrested in June 20 1 18. Besides salary, Nada is still collecting other evidence against Ghosn and Kelly.
Before Ghosn was arrested, Nada sent a private jet to take Ghosn's assistant Kelly back to Japan on the grounds of attending the meeting, and trapped him on the same day. The day before Ghosn was arrested, the daring artist Nada sent Hiroshi Nishikawa a detailed plan so that the latter could deal with the media and other possible influences of the incident.
Although we don't know how Nada persuaded Hiroshi Nishikawa, an insider revealed that Nada made full use of Hiroshi Nishikawa's position in Renault and his bad blood with Ghosn. He told Hiroshi Nishikawa in an email, "He (Ghosn) can have sex at any time, and you may eventually become a victim."
Jose munoz joined Hyundai Motor after leaving Nissan last year.
However, after Ghosn was dismissed in the name of improper salary, Nishikawa Hiroshi was also found to have improper income due to Nissan's internal investigation, and then Nishikawa Hiroshi resigned and became Nissan's shortest-lived CEO. After winning Ghosn and Kelly in one fell swoop, Nada began to clean up Nissan's internal executives. For fear of assassination, Nissan arranged security packages such as bodyguards and luxury apartments for Nada. Mu? oz, the third person of Nissan mentioned in this article, has been excluded since the beginning of last year, and left his job to join Hyundai Motor in September last year. So far, 20 18+0 1 has not set foot in Japan.
Although Ghosn was brought down, Nada's ending was not happy. Ghosn filed a lawsuit against Nissan in the Netherlands last July. If Nissan uses the evidence obtained from Nada invasion to defend itself, it may be difficult to be recognized. Because Nada's intrusion into Nissan's network is not supervised by the company's security personnel, and the intrusion process can copy, delete or implant information, any data and information obtained by Nada may be questioned. At the same time, Nada, who brought down Ghosn on the grounds of improper salary, was also found to be overpaid in Nissan's internal investigation. Now Nada has been dismissed from his leadership position by Nissan.
Editor's comment:
Because of Nada's betrayal, Ghosn was reduced from a commercial superstar who was "entertaining" on his head to a lawsuit-ridden and absconding everywhere; Another victim, Kelly, was confined to her apartment in Japan for more than a year and just released not long ago. Nishikawa Hiroshi, who was forced to partner with Nada, suddenly stepped down as CEO of Nissan and became a joke in the industry; Nada's own credit is also deeply questioned because of a series of unscrupulous operations. At the same time, the fate of other key figures in Nissan is also full of uncertainty.
As the old saying goes, clear water means no fish, and no one can afford a magnifying glass to see through it. Of course, it is obvious that the Ghosn incident ended badly not only in the above figures, but also in Nissan. Today's Nissan Motor Company is severely weakened. In May this year, it announced a series of "slimming" plans, such as closing factories and reducing product lineup. The financial report released in early August also showed that the net loss in the first fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2020 (April-June, 2020) was 285.6 billion yen (about RMB 188 10 billion yuan), which was Nissan's 10.
Nissan and Ghosn are both losing each other now, and two years ago, if Nada hadn't taken the initiative to invade, the outcome would be completely different. (Text/car home? Song)