Nissan Motor GB has appointed Justin Elias as marketing director replacing Paul Willcox who has been promoted to vice president, marketing at Nissan Europe.

Elias joins Nissan from Renault where he was commercial operations manager.

Elias has held a variety of senior sales and marketing positions including field management, head office sales management, brand management (UK and internationally) and was also marketing director for Renault Asia Pacific, based in Tokyo.