Executives

Executives

Executives

Executives

Executives

President and CEO
Masaki Yamazaki


Masaki Yamazaki

Career Summary

Apr. 1979
Joined AIU Insurance Company, Ltd.
Jan. 1996
Joined Walt Disney Enterprise, Japan (Present The Walt Disney Company, Japan)
Finance Director
Jan. 2001
Joined Electronic Arts, Japan
CFO,Vice President
Apr. 2004
Joined Vale Japan Limited
Director, Responsible for finance and business management
Dec. 2012
Vice president & Representative director of Vale Japan Limited
Jun. 2016
Outside Director, Audit/Supervisory Committee Member (Standing) of the Company
Jun. 2018
Deputy President and Officer in Charge of Planning of the Company
Jun. 2019
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company (Present position)

Representative Director and
Senior Managing Director

Naoki Shimizu


Naoki Shimizu

Career Summary

Apr. 1983
Joined the Company
Apr. 2008
Head of Corporate Planning Department of the Company
Jun. 2012
Director and Head of Finance and Accounting Department of the Company
Apr. 2015
Director and Head of Corporate Planning Headquarters of the Company
Jun. 2016
Managing Director and Head of Corporate Planning Headquarters of the Company
Jun. 2018
Managing Director, CCO, and Officer in Charge of Administration of the Company
Jun. 2020
Representative Director and Senior Managing CCO of the Company
Jun. 2023
Representative Director and Senior Managing Director of the Company and President and Chief Executive Officer of Sinanen Co., Ltd. (Present position)

Director
Kenji Madokoro


Kenji Madokoro

Career Summary

Apr. 1983
Joined Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau
Nov. 1988
Joined Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd.(currently Daiwa Securities Group Inc.)
Seconded to Daiwa Securities Research Institute of Economy(currently Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.)
Jul. 1995
Transferred to Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.
Apr. 2016
Joined Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services Co., Ltd. (currently EY Strategy & Consulting Co., Ltd.)
Mar. 2017
Executive Officer and Head of Corporate Planning Department, Corporate Planning Headquarters of the Company
Apr. 2019
Senior Executive Officer and Head of Corporate Planning Department of the Company
Jun. 2020
Director and Head of Corporate Planning Department of the Company
Jul. 2021
Director of the Company
Jun. 2022
Director and Head of Corporate Planning Department of the Company
Dec. 2022
Director of the Company (present position)

Director
Miwa Mitsuhashi


Miwa Mitsuhashi

Career Summary

Apr. 1996
Joined the Company
Apr. 2019
President and Representative Director of Sinanen Mobility Plus Co., Ltd.
Jun. 2023
Director and CCO of the Company(Present position)

Outside Director and
Audit/Supervisory Committee Member
(Full time)

Kazuhisa Hirano


Kazuhisa Hirano

Career Summary

Apr. 1977
Joined Burroughs Co., Ltd. (Present Nihon Unisys, Ltd.)
May. 1986
Joined Citibank, N.A. (Present Citibank, N.A., Tokyo Branch)
Mar. 1991
Joined Japan Bankers Trust Co., Ltd.
Controller, General Manager, General Affairs and Accounting Department
Aug. 1993
Licensed as Certified Public Accountant of the United States
Aug. 1999
Joined Deutsche Asset Management (Japan) Limited
Controller, General Manager, General Affairs and Accounting Department
Oct. 2001
Joined Secured Capital Japan Co., Ltd.Controller
Nov. 2003
Joined Manulife Life Insurance Company
General Manager, Audit Department
Oct. 2009
Joined Prudential Financial, Inc.
Vice President, Internal Audit Department, Japan Representative
Jun. 2016
Representative Director, Japan Society of U.S. CPAs (Present position)
Jun. 2020
Outside Director and Audit/Supervisory Committee Member(Full time) (Present position)

Outside Director and
Audit/Supervisory Committee Member

Ren Shino


Ren Shino

Career Summary

Oct. 1986
Passed the bar examination
Apr. 1989
Admitted to the bar in Japan
Jan. 1990
Participated in establishment of Kohwa Sohgoh Law Offices Partner Attorney (Present position)
Jun. 2016
Outside Director, Audit/Supervisory Committee Member of the Company (Present position)
Jun. 2018
Outside Director, Audit/Supervisory Committee Member, Takashima & Co., Ltd. (Present position)
Jun. 2019
Outside Director, MAEDA CORPORATION

Outside Director and
Audit/Supervisory Committee Member

Nobutaka Murao


Nobutaka Murao

Career Summary

Apr. 1978
Joined the Ministry of Finance
May. 1982
Vice-Consul of Consulate General of Japan in New York, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Jul. 1985
Deputy Director of the Treasury Division, Financial Bureau of the Ministry of Finance
Jul. 1998
Budget Examiner, Budget Bureau of the Ministry of Finance
Jul. 2001
Director of the Debt Management Division, Financial Bureau of the Ministry of Finance
Jul. 2002
Director of the Policy and Coordination Division, Environmental Policy Bureau of the Ministry of the Environment
Dec. 2002
Retired from the Ministry of the Environment
Oct. 2003
Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University (Present position)
Oct. 2006
Main Anchor of NEWS ZERO (Nippon Television network) (until September 2018)
Oct. 2019
Senior Adviser of Japan Platform (Present position)
Jun. 2021
Outside Director, Audit/Supervisory Committee Member of the Company (Present position)

Outside Director and
Audit/Supervisory Committee Member

Hiroyuki Mitani


Hiroyuki Mitani

Career Summary

Apr. 1977
Joined Kawasaki Steel Corporation (Present JFE Steel Corporation)
May. 1988
Joined The Boston Consulting Group K.K.
May. 1992
Director of Business Development Dept., General Electric Japan, Ltd. (Present GE Japan Inc.)
Oct. 1998
President and General Manager of General Electric Company Aircraft Engines Northern Pacific Co., Ltd.
May. 2002
President of GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Ltd. (Present GE Healthcare Japan Corporation)
Jul. 2005
Company Officer of The General Electric Company
May. 2007
President and CEO of Novartis Pharma K.K.
Mar. 2008
President and CEO of Novartis Pharma K.K., President and Representative Director of Novartis Holding Japan K.K.
Oct. 2013
Representative, Office Mitani (Present position), Advisor, Layers Consulting Co., Ltd. (Present position)
Apr. 2014
Part-time lecturer at the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo (Present position)
Aug. 2019
Professor, Graduate School of Leadership and Innovation Shizenkan University (Present position)
Nov. 2019
Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group K.K. (Present position)
Jul. 2020
Member of the Nominating and Compensation Committee, the Company (Present position)
Jul. 2021
President and CEO, NC Medical Research, Inc. (Present position)
Jun. 2022
Outside Director, Audit/Supervisory Committee Member of the Company (Present position)

Outside Director and
Audit/Supervisory Committee Member
Yuichiro Munakata


Yuichiro Munakata

Career Summary

Mar. 1993
Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
Jun. 1993
Joined Ota Showa Audit Corporation(currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
Jul. 1998
Stationed at Ernst & Young LLP New York Office
May 2000
Joined Century Ota Showa & Co. as Partner(currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
Dec. 2001
Obtained US Certified Public Accountant license
Jul. 2014
Leader of EY Japan Area Accountants and member of the Steering Committee, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC. (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC.)
Sept. 2016
EY Japan Area Assurance Deputy Leader, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC.
Apr. 2018
General Manager of FAAS Division of Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC.
May 2018
Representative Director of Ernst & Young Solutions Co., Ltd.
Nov. 2022
Outside Director and Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Kasumigaseki Capital Co., Ltd. (present position)
Jun. 2023
Outside Director and Audit/Supervisory Committee Member of the Company(present position)

Executive Officers

Senior Executive Officer
Naoki Sawaoka

Career Summary

Apr. 1983
Joined The Bank of Tokyo, Ltd. (Present MUFG Bank, Ltd.)
May. 1995
Seconded to Inter-American Development Bank
Jan. 2012
Joined Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd. (Present BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd.)
Aug. 2015
Joined FPG Co., Ltd.
Jun. 2019
Senior Executive Officer (Present position)

Executive Officer
Nakao Sato

Career Summary

Apr. 1987
Joined the Company
Dec. 2007
Representative Director of SINANEN INDUSTRIA E COMERCIO DE COMBUSTIVEIS LTDA
Jan. 2022
Executive Officer of the Company (Present position)

Executive Officer
Hiroshi Minami

Career Summary

Apr. 1990
Joined CSK Corporation (Present SCSK Corporation)
Sep. 2017
Joined KONICA MINOLTA JAPAN, INC.
Apr. 2020
Joined the Company
Jun. 2020
Head of IT Strategy Department of the Company
Apr. 2022
Executive Officer and Head of IT Strategy Department of the Company (Present position)

Executive Officer
Eiji Hibino

Career Summary

Apr. 1988
Joined UCC UESHIMA COFFEE CO., LTD.
Jun. 1991
Joined Nichirei Corporation
Aug. 2021
Head of Human Resources Department, Head of Group Reform Promotion Office of the Company
Apr. 2023
Executive Officer and Head of Human Resources Department, Head of Group Reform Promotion Office of the Company (Present position)

Skills Matrix

  Management
Experience
Finance and
Accounting
Risk Management Business Strategy/
Marketing
Legal Affairs,
Regulatory Issues, etc.
International
Operations
Masaki Yamazaki    
Naoki Shimizu      
Kenji Madokoro      
Miwa Mitsuhashi    
Kazuhisa HiranoOutside      
Ren ShinoOutside        
Nobutaka MuraoOutside      
Hiroyuki Mitani Outside      
Yuichiro Munakata Outside    

(Note) The above list does not represent the entire breadth of knowledge possessed by the directors.