2009 Cleveland Leadership Prayer Breakfast

Speaker Profile - N. Douglas Mazza

Doug Mazza’s distinguished career in the automotive industry began on the team that introduced Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America’s new line of automobiles in the United States. Later as senior American executive for American Suzuki Motor Corporation, he authored the marketing plan that successfully launched Suzuki automobiles in this country. Under his leadership the Suzuki Samurai was named one of the top 10 marketed products in the United States and became the subject of a Harvard case study.

Mr. Mazza then joined Hyundai Motor America as its top American executive, serving four years as Chief Operating Officer.

Long a dedicated volunteer with a variety of non-profit organizations that meet the human needs locally and nationally, Doug and his wife, Lorraine, made a life changing decision when Doug became Executive Vice President of the international organization JAF Ministries. Founded by visionary, author, artist and quadriplegic, Joni Eareckson Tada, JAF Ministries serves those affected of disabilities and their families in the United States, western and eastern Europe, China, India, Africa and South America. Recently, Life Magazine featured a JAF program that establishes wheelchair restoration centers in American prisons and provides restored wheelchairs to disabled people throughout the world.

Doug has been the recipient of a national award from the organization Women Against Violence in the Media for his public stance against sexism and for family values. An Otterbein graduate, Doug and Lorraine now live in Woodland Hills, California, and together they have raised five sons.