DEALER.COM -- Mike DeCecco to business development director, a newly created position. He had been director of industry relations.
His new duties include building strategic partnerships, identifying growth opportunities and representing the company at conferences and conventions nationwide.
Dealer.com, of Burlington, Vt., provides online marketing sites to the automotive industry.
HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES INTERNATIONAL INC. -- Richard Spitzer to managing partner of the global automotive practice, based in Houston and Chicago.
He had been global managing partner of automotive and industrial equipment industries at Accenture.
Heidrick & Struggles of Chicago provides senior-level executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide.
NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. -- Brad Thacker, 44, to vice president of total customer satisfaction, replacing Kevin Martin.
Thacker will be responsible for ensuring satisfaction among Nissan and Infiniti owners across the Americas region, which includes Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and 37 more markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. His responsibilities also will include Nissan's Product Safety department.
Thacker had been vice president of business transformation and corporate services.
Kevin Martin, 48, to the newly created position of vice president of manufacturing quality.
He will be responsible for ensuring the company's focus on product quality across its entire range of cars, trucks and commercial vehicles -- including supplier and manufacturing quality.
Dave Mazur, 58, to the newly created position of vice president of market intelligence, business transformation and corporate services. He had been vice president of market intelligence.
He will be responsible for Nissan's market and consumer research efforts in the Americas, as well as the company's business process improvement efforts. He also takes on oversight of the company's security operations and facilities management.
Mark Swenson, 44, to vice president of vehicle production, manufacturing engineering and component facilities. He was vice president of vehicle production and manufacturing engineering.
He adds responsibility for Nissan's component production in the United States, including its powertrain plant in Decherd, Tenn., and its advanced lithium ion battery plant now under construction in Smyrna, Tenn., to his previous duties for managing Nissan's manufacturing engineering activities in Smyrna; Canton, Miss.; and Cuernavaca and Aguascalientes, Mexico.
He also oversees production engineering efforts at the Nissan Technical Center North America in Farmington Hills, Mich.
INTEVA PRODUCTS -- The company has organized its product lines into four groups and appointed leaders for each. The leaders are Pierre Blanchard, senior director, motors and electronics; Bill Hanna, executive director, closure systems; Stefan Land, executive director, roof systems; and Pat Stewart, executive director, interior systems.
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY ACTION GROUP -- John Batchik to chairman of the board. He is vice president of quality at Freudenberg-NOK.
He succeeds Brian Vautaw, a former vice president of information technology at Lear Corp.
David Kneisler to vice chairman. He is vice president of global quality at Dana Holding Corp.
AIAG, of suburban Detroit, is a nonprofit auto industry trade organization composed of automakers, suppliers, technology companies, governments and academics.
PERFECT EQUIPMENT INC. -- Johannes Michalski to CEO. He had been COO of Huf North America in Milwaukee.
He replaces Mike Astorino, who will act as a consultant to the company.
Perfect Equipment, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., supplies wheel balance weights.