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Steve St. Angelo is president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) and senior vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America, Inc. (TEMA).
After joining TEMA on April 1, 2005 as vice president, Mr. St. Angelo was promoted to executive vice president on June 23, 2005. In June 2006, he was named president of TMMK, Toyota's largest complex in North America. On June 26, 2007, he was also named the senior vice-president of TEMA.
Mr. St. Angelo retired from General Motors after a 30-year career that saw him hold various leadership positions in manufacturing engineering and production, planning and project management. He began his career at GM in 1974 as a production team member at the Fisher Body Fleetwood plant in Detroit. He progressed through various supervisory positions and in 1982 transferred to Fisher Body General Offices and Central Engineering as senior manufacturing engineer. In 1989, he was promoted to engineering group manager with the Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada group. In 1993, he was promoted to executive, Manufacturing Systems Engineering. He has also held leadership positions at GM’s Lordstown, Willow Run, Oshawa and Lansing plants.
In 1995, Mr. St. Angelo relocated to California to work at New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI), the joint venture between GM and Toyota. St. Angelo held the position of senior advisor at NUMMI and eventually was named vice president at the Freemont, California plant in September 2001.
Prior to retiring from GM, Mr. St. Angelo was the manufacturing director at General Motors de Mexico where he had responsibilities for three major complexes and a total of ten plants.
Mr. St. Angelo currently serves on the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Task Force on Post-Secondary Education and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Japan/America Society of Kentucky (JASK). He earned a bachelor of science degree in computer engineering from Madonna University, associate degrees in industrial management and electrical technology from Henry Ford College, and a master's degree in manufacturing management from Kettering University. He also completed the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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