TOKYO – Mike Colleran has been appointed the brand new world head of the struggling Infiniti premium model as a part of a personnel shuffle at mum or dad firm Nissan Motor Co. 

Colleran, presently deputy chairman of Infinitis administration committee, will change into chairman beginning April 1 and be promoted to company vice chairman at Nissan, the corporate mentioned on Wednesday.

He'll report back to Nissan Chief High quality Officer Christian Vandenhende, who had stuffed in as Infiniti chairman following the departure of earlier Infiniti President Christian Meunier in Could to change into world president of the Jeep model. Meuniers resignation got here simply 4 months after the departure of his predecessor, Roland Krueger, deepening a management disaster on the model.

A former captain within the U.S. Marines, Colleran steps into Infiniti at a fragile time.

The model is shifting its head workplace again to Japan from Hong Kong this 12 months and is battling slumping gross sales. Infiniti gross sales within the U.S., the models largest...