ghosns detention has left the renaultnissanmitsubishi auto alliance without its leader tokyo nissan motor co ltd plans to boost the number of external board members and set up a committee to oversee compensation as part of its effort to improve governance following the arrest of former chairman carlos ghosn for financial misconduct a source said critics have said nissan lacked adequate governance with few truly independent voices on the board capable of questioning ghosn and looking out for regular shareholders interests the company has not yet decided how many more external board seats to add according to the source who has knowledge of the matter but requested anonymity as the talks are still confidential advt the current three external board members include retired renault sa executive jeanbaptiste duzan considered to represent the views of the french automaker which is nissans biggest shareholder the other two external board members are former bureaucrat masakazu toyoda and racing car driver keiko ihara ghosn was indicted on monday underreporting his income the company also cited multiple instances of financial misconduct including personal use of company assets ghosns detention has left the renaultnissanmitsubishi auto alliance without its leader nissan is 434 percent owned by renault while almost 60 percent bigger by sales it remains the junior partner in their shareholding hierarchy with a smaller reciprocal 15 percent nonvoting stake in the french firm renaults biggest shareholder is the french state with 15 percent reuters published on dec 13 2018 at 1101 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app compensation committee carlos ghosn board seats nissan mitsubishi renault homenewsindustrynissan to boost external board seats set up compensation committee source