Jos de Boes

Born in Belgium, Jos De Boes had the opportunity to live in the United States during his youth in the sixties in the sunny state of Georgia. After returning to Belgium, he successfully finished his studies as Industrial Engineer matering in Mechanics at the BMA Hogeschool in Gent. His career started at Volvo Europe Trucks in 1980, where he joined the R&D centre and assisted in the development of the medium size truck .During his 10 year period at Volvo, he specialized in Vehicle Acoustics. In 1990 he decided to take on a new challenge and moved to Toyota Motor Europe, where he was the very first European engineer to join the Toyota Development centre in Brussels. For 14 years ,he could make a wide contribution to the development of European launched models in the areas of vehicle dynamics, noise and ergonomics. In 2004 ,he was requested to take on a position at Toyota Motorsports in Cologne in Germany to reorganize the Sports Conversion Department. During this period ha was also the project leader of the very first Toyota Sports conversion vehicle-the Corolla Compressor , which was built in UK in a limited volume of 650 cars. Moving back to Brussels in 2008, Jos has successfully lead divisions of Accessory development, Customer Service Technical and Customer Service Support and Customer care . With his combination of automotive passion and customer focus, he was very much appreciated by the 30 Toyota European markets . Customer first is very high on his agenda in whichever area he is operating and his most important approach is to the voice of the real customer. Since July 2015 , he has move to an early retirement scheme , no longer working for Toyota.