Research notes
Hajime 'Jim' Aota is an Executive Officer at Yamaha Motor, and also serves as Chairman of Yamaha Motor Ventures and Senior General Manager of New Business Development. Prior to joining Yamaha he worked at Mitsui & Co. In the Lola Yamaha ABT project, he represents Yamaha in coordinating the development of the high-performance electric powertrain and serves as Yamaha's Formula E team coordinator role.