Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) announced that Mr. Hideaki Omiya, currently an MHI Representative Director and Senior Executive Vice President, was named the new President of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

The decision was made at the extraordinary meeting of the board of directors, held on January 29, and he will assume the new position on April 1, 2008. Mr. Hideaki Omiya  has an undergraduate degree from the University of Tokyo’s School of Engineering, which he got in 1969. That same year he joined Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. From 2002 till 2007 he occupied several management positions at MHI’s air conditioning and refrigeration headquarters.

Mr. Kazuo Tsukuda, the current President of MHI, will become Chairman of the company succeeding Mr. Takashi Nishioka, who will become MHI's Senior Corporate Advisor, reveals the company’s press release.