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Mr. Warren was elected to the Board of Directors in December 2006. He currently serves as the National Manager of the Latin American Research Group in Toyota Motor North America (TMA). He has been with the company since 1998, and has led the Latin American Research Group at TMA since 2001, managing a team that conducts economic, political, automotive market & competitor intelligence research for Toyota in Latin American markets. Michael has been deeply involved in hemisphere renewable fuels research over the last three years, and manages a renewable fuels research group in the Americas that assists Toyota with power-train-related developments in the hemisphere. Mr. Warren made a key presentation and lobbied engineers of Toyota Technical Center in Japan to produce a flex fuel version of the Corolla (December 2005), which will be launched in Spring 2007, and also teamed up with US Toyota affiliates to convince Toyota Technical Center to authorize the production of the first US flex fuel engine (July 2006). He is a participating member of the Demand Task Group of the National Petroleum Council’s (the NPC) Oil & Natural Gas Study. The NPC will make recommendations on US Energy Policy to Congress in May 2007. He served 22 years in the US Army (Active and Reserve), mostly as an intelligence analyst. After the September 11th attacks in the United States, Mr. Warren was called upon to serve with the US National Ground Intelligence Agency and helped plan and execute the War against Terrorism (November 2001-December 2002).
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