Auto giant Nissan has promoted Chandra Vasser, a 17-year Nissan veteran, to Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Officer, for the Americas region.
In this newly created role, Vasser will drive Nissan’s strategy to expand DE&I across business functions in the Americas region. She will also develop partnerships and plans to share the company’s DE&I commitment with employees, customers and the community.
“Taking actions to strengthen our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is a critical part of the culture change that we’ve committed to with our Nissan NEXT transformation,” stated Jérémie Papin, Chairperson of Nissan Americas. “Chandra brings great experience to the role; and will drive how we value equity and inclusion with all of our stakeholders, including employees, customers, dealers and suppliers.”
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Vasser most recently was a Director of Finance for several sales and marketing functions in Nissan’s US business operations. She joined Nissan in 2004 and worked in positions of increasing responsibility in the finance and purchasing functions.
Among her roles, she currently is a member of Nissan’s Diversity Advisory Council; and she previously worked as Director of Purchasing for several functional areas. This included leadership of supplier diversity.
Under her leadership, Nissan was recognised as the “2016 Corporation of the Year” by the TriState Minority Supplier Development Council. Vasser earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Tennessee State University; and an MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. She recently completed the McKinsey Academy’s Black Executive Leadership Program.
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