The OEM has announced the appointment and reappointment of company directors and executive officers.
The company’s reappointed candidates for director positions include:
Masatoshi Matsuzaki as Chairman of the Board; Shoei Yamana as Director (President and CEO, Representative Executive Officer); Hiroshi Tomono (Senior Advisor of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation), Kimikazu Noumi (Advisor of J-Will Corporation Ltd) and Takashi Hatchoji (Former Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi, Ltd) as Outside Directors; Ken Shiomi as Director; Seiji Hatano (Senior Executive Officer) as Director; and Kunihiro Koshizuka (Senior Executive Officer) as Director.
Newly appointed director candidates include:
Taketsugu Fujiwara (Standing Counsellor of Asahi Kasei Corporation) as an Outside Director; Chikatomo Hodo (Senior Corporate Advisor of Accenture Japan Ltd) as an Outside Director; Toyotsugu Itoh as Director; and Toshimitsu Taiko (Senior Executive Officer) as Director.
Their official appointments will be made at the company’s Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, which is due to take place in June 2018.
Reappointed executive officers, whose roles will be effective from 1 April 2018 include:
Shoei Yamana, Tsukasa Wakashima, Kunihiro Koshizuka, Ken Osuga, Seiji Hatano, Shingo Asai, Toyotsugu Itoh, Noriyasu Kuzuhara, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Atsuo Takemoto, Hajime Takei, Richard K. Taylor, Takaji Ito, Toshiya Eguchi, Koji Sugie, and Tetsuya Matsueda.
Newly appointed executive officers include:
Yuji Ichimura, Masafumi Uchida, Toshimitsu Taiko, Ikuo Nakagawa, Kazuyoshi Hata, Kazumi Atago, Histoshi Kamezawa, Toru Hasegawa and Jean-Claude Cornillet.
Jun Haraguchi has resigned from his post as Senior Executive Officer, and Akira Tai has resigned from his post as Executive Officer, both effective 31 March 2018.
Reappointed Group Executives and Technology Fellows include:
Akira Kitagawa, Katsuaki Komatsu, Kozo Atsumi, Tadahiko Sumitani, Akiko Hiraga, Hiroshi Kita, and Takatoshi Tsujimura.
Newly appointed Group Executives and Technology Fellows include:
Shingo Tsujimoto, Naoto Tsuchiyama, Masanori Miura, and Dennis Curry,
