Nissan's Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ashwani Gupta is leaving the company. The company confirmed this a day after AFP reported that there was a "rivalry" between 52-year-old Gupta and Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida for the top job. An engineering graduate from Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, Gupta started his career with Renault in 2006 and was named Nissan COO in 2019.