He will report to Jeff Guyton, president and CEO of Mazda Motor Europe. In this role ten Brink will oversee the group’s 22 national sales companies and relationships with independent distributors of Mazda in Europe.

Ten Brink is a Dutch national who joined Mazda Europe in 1999 and has held various sales and marketing positions in the region’s national sales companies as well in Mazda Europe’s head office in Leverkusen. He successfully launched Mazda’s new national Sales Company in The Netherlands in 2008, and added management of Mazda Belgium/ Luxembourg to his remit in 2011.

As of September 1, Geraldine Brouwers will be appointed managing director at Mazda Motor Netherlands.  On the same date Matthias Sileghem will be appointed managing director of Mazda Motor Belgium/Luxembourg. Both Brouwers and Sileghem, promoted from inside the organisation, will have key roles to play in the launch of SKYACTIV products.