Victor Martinez Email Address

At Kawasaki Motors Corp

Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. engages in marketing and distributing motorcycles, sport bikes, side X side vehicles, cruisers, and watercraft. It also distributes gasoline engines and professional handheld power products for landscape, industrial, and consumer markets.

As Director of Information Technolgy at Kawasaki Motors Corp., USA (KMC), Victor Martinez oversees and provides vision for KMC’s enterprise information systems organization that encompasses the business relationship management, application, help desk, data center, telecommunication, and network operations. Mr. Martinez works closely with KMC’s functional and product business unit leaders to align the information technology investments with KMC’s overarching business strategy and objectives. Expanding beyond the formal boundaries of KMC, Mr. Martinez further leverages the services of his organization by partnering with Kawasaki’s global companies to the benefit of its parent company Kawasaki Heavy Industries, LTD. Previous to this role, Mr. Martinez was the Senior Manager of KMC’s business application organization providing oversight and management of its application portfolio. While in this role Mr. Martinez led the IT teams focused on the delivering business intelligence to Kawasaki’s enterprise which led to the eventual adoption by KMC’s parent company enabling visibility of Kawasaki’s global powersports product pipeline. Mr. Martinez currently serves on KMC’s Supply Chain Optimization and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, LTD. Wholesale Finance Steering Committees. Mr. Martinez has more than 25 years of IT experience in a variety of leadership roles including business analysis, project management, and customer relationship management. Mr. Martinez holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the California State University at Long Beach and a Master of Business Administration from the The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. Specialties: Inter and intra-organization relationship building, Change management, Collaborative innovation and strategy development, Organization Design, Contract negotiation, Wholesale & Retail distribution. Supply chain optimization, Business Intelligence