Speaker Bio

Susan Elkington

President, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky
Manufacturing, Vehicle Plant
Georgetown, KY

As president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Ubc (TMMK) since 2018, Elkington oversees a $7 billion operation, which employs nearly 8,000 people, and in a year, can produce as many as 550,000 vehicles and more than 600,000 engines. TMMK is Toyota’s largest production facility globally, producing the Camry, Avalon and Lexus ES 350 (including hybrid versions of all three), plus four-cylinder and V6 engines, in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Susan joined TMMK in January 2017 as senior vice president, overseeing the plant’s manufacturing and administrative functions. Prior to this role, she served as general manager, Production Control Division at Toyota Motor Corporation’s (TMC) global headquarters in Toyota City, Japan, supporting Toyota’s 53 manufacturing plants worldwide.

Susan began her career with Toyota in 1998 in Princeton, Indiana, as an assembly engineering specialist. By 2013, she held the position of manufacturing vice president at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana (TMMI).

She serves on the board of the Prichard Committee, is a Kentucky Chamber of Commerce board member and a member of the executive committee, a STEP Ahead Honoree (2014) and an ATHENA of Southwest Indiana Award Finalist (2013).

Susan earned her mechanical engineering degree from the University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana.