Takuya Tsumura is new President & CEO of Honda Cars India

In his new role, Behl will be Operating Head of Sales and Marketing and will form an integral part of the management team spearheaded by new CEO Takuya Tsumura and will support Yuichi Murata, Director-Marketing & Sales.

Tsumura has been associated with Honda Motor Co. Ltd. for more than 30 years and has vast experience in the automobile industry, having worked in several international markets including Thailand, Australia, China, Japan, Turkey and has worked with overseas division for Europe and Asia & Oceania regions. He was in-charge of South Asian countries including India from 1997 to 2000 while working at HM head office.

Kunal Behl comes with over two decades of rich automotive experience and expertise in strategic and operation management in the area of Sales and Aftersales. He joined Honda in 2002 and has headed several key functions including Field Sales, Network Development, Sales Planning, Exports and New business development. He started his career with Escorts Ltd in 2002 and was also briefly associated with Audi India for a year in 2012-13 in sales area.