Koichi Ichinose

Vice President of Sales, Asia Pacific

As Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific and Global Asian Transnational OEMs, Koichi Ichinose is responsible for leading and managing Dow Automotive System’s strategic growth in these regions. This includes overseeing all OEM and Tier supplier sales as well as application development engineering, program management and after-the-sale plant service. Ichinose joined Dow in 1986 and has held a variety of sales and marketing positions for plastics, performance chemicals and Dow Automotive in North America and the Pacific region. Most recently, he served as senior regional commercial manager for Dow Automotive Pacific in Tokyo. Ichinose holds a master’s degree in synthetic chemistry from Nagoya University, Japan. He is a member of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Detroit.