Leadership

Director (Independent)

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  Lead Independent Director,
  Chairperson of the Nomination Committee,
  Member of the Compensation Committee,
  Member of the Audit Committee

  Mitsudo Urano

  Biography

  Apr. 1971

  Joined Nippon Reizo Kabushiki Kaisha (present Nichirei Corporation)

  Jun. 1999

  Director and General Manager, Strategic Planning Division of Nichirei Corporation

  Jun. 2001

  Representative Director and President of Nichirei Corporation

  Jan. 2005

  Representative Director and President of Nichirei Corporation, and Representative Director and President of Nichirei Foods Inc.

  Apr. 2007

  Representative Director and President of Nichirei Corporation, and Director and Chairman of Nichirei Foods Inc.

  Jun. 2007

  Representative Director and Chairman of Nichirei Corporation, and Director and Chairman of Nichirei Foods Inc.

  Jun. 2013

  Advisor of Nichirei Corporation (retired in March 2018)

  Jun. 2013

  Director of the Company (present post)

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  Independent Director,
  Chairperson of the Compensation Committee,
  Member of the Nomination Committee,
  Member of the Audit Committee

  Shuzo Kaihori

  Biography

  Apr. 1973

  Joined Yokogawa Electric Works Ltd. (Present Yokogawa Electric Corporation)

  Apr. 2005

  Vice President, Head of IA Business Headquarters of Yokogawa Electric Corporation

  Apr. 2006

  Senior Vice President, Head of IA Business Headquarters of Yokogawa Electric Corporation

  Jun. 2006

  Director and Senior Vice President, Head of IA Business Headquarters of Yokogawa Electric Corporation

  Apr. 2007

  Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Yokogawa Electric Corporation

  Apr. 2013

  Representative Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yokogawa Electric Corporation

  Apr. 2015

  Director, Chairman of Yokogawa Electric Corporation

  Jun. 2015

  Director of the Company (present post)

  Jun. 2016

  Director and Chairman of the Board of Yokogawa Electric Corporation (retired in June 2018)

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  Independent Director,
  Chairperson of the Audit Committee,
  Member of the Nomination Committee,
  Member of the Compensation Committee,
  Chairperson of the Healthcare Compliance Committee

  Hiroaki Yoshihara

  Biography

  Nov. 1978

  Joined Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.

  Jul. 1996

  National Managing Partner, the Pacific Rim Practice of KPMG LLP

  Oct. 1997

  The Board Member of KPMG LLP

  Oct. 2003

  Vice Chairman and Global Managing Partner of KPMG International（retired in April　2007）

  Jun. 2018

  Director of the Company （present post）

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  Independent Director,
  Member of the Nomination Committee,
  Member of the Compensation Committee,
  Member of the Audit Committee,
  Member of the Healthcare Compliance Committee

  Yasuyuki Abe

  Biography

  Apr. 1977

  Joined Sumitomo Corporation

  Jun. 2002

  Representative Director and President of Sumisho Electronics Co., Ltd. (present SCSK Corporation)

  Apr. 2005

  Representative Director and President of Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation (present SCSK Corporation)

  Jun. 2009

  Representative Director, Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, Financial & Logistics Business Unit of Sumitomo Corporation

  Apr. 2010

  Representative Director, Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, New Industry Development & Cross-function Business Unit of Sumitomo Corporation

  Apr. 2011

  Representative Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, New Industry Development & Cross-function Business Unit, General Manager, Financial Service Division of Sumitomo Corporation

  Apr. 2013

  Representative Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, Corporate Planning & Coordination Group of Sumitomo Corporation

  Jun. 2015

  Advisor of Sumitomo Corporation (retired in June 2018)

  Jun. 2021

  Director of the Company (present post)

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  Independent Director,
  Member of the Nomination Committee,
  Member of the Compensation Committee,
  Member of the Audit Committee

  Takayo Hasegawa

  Biography

  Apr. 1984

  Joined SHOWA ELECTRIC WIRE AND CABLE CO., LTD.　(present SWCC SHOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.)

  Jun. 2005

  Deputy Director of Technical Development Center and Manager of Superconducting Project of SHOWA ELECTRIC WIRE AND CABLE CO.

  Apr. 2006

  Director, Director of Technical Development Center of SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.

  Apr. 2010

  Managing Director of SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS CO., LTD., and Corporate Officer, General Manager of The Technology Planning Office of SHOWA ELECTRIC WIRE AND CABLE CO., LTD.

  Jun. 2013

  Director, General Manager of The Technology Planning Office of SHOWA ELECTRIC WIRE AND CABLE CO., LTD.

  Apr. 2017

  Director of SWCC SHOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

  Jun. 2018

  President and Director of SWCC SHOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

  Apr. 2019

  President and Representative Director, Group CEO of SWCC SHOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

  Apr. 2020

  President and Representative Director, Chairman of the Board of Director, Group CEO of SWCC SHOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (present post)

  Jun. 2022

  Director of the Company (present post)

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  Independent Director,
  Member of the Nomination Committee,
  Member of the Compensation Committee,
  Member of the Audit Committee,
  Member of the Healthcare Compliance Committee

  Mika Nishimura

  Biography

  Jun. 1985

  Joined BAIN & COMPANY

  Aug. 1989

  Joined LEK PARTNERSHIP

  Jan. 1992

  Director, Global Marketing of GUIDANT CORPORATION

  Sep. 1999

  Managing Partner of THE BLG GROUP

  Oct. 2002

  Vice President International Sales, Operations and Marketing of EV3

  Jan. 2007

  Managing Partner of THE BLG GROUP

  Jan. 2011

  Operational Partner of GILDE HEALTHCARE PARTNERS (present post)

  Apr. 2011

  Vice President, Commercial Development of AUXOGYN (present PROGYNY)

  Nov. 2015

  Vice President, Commercialization of NVISION MEDICAL CORPORATION (present BOSTON SCIENTIFIC)

  Jun. 2022

  Director of the Company (present post)

Director（Internal）

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  Internal Director

  Eiichiro Ikeda

  Biography

  Apr. 1992

  Joined the Company

  Feb. 2010

  Co-CEO, Memory Disk Division of the Company

  Sep. 2010

  Head of Optical Lens of the Company

  Jun. 2013

  Executive Officer & Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Company

  Jun. 2015

  Executive Officer & Chief Operating Officer (COO), Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Company

  Mar. 2020

  Executive Officer & Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Company

  Mar. 2022

  Representative Executive Officer President & CEO, and Chief Representative of Singapore Branch of the Company (present post)

  Jun. 2022

  Director of the Company (present post)

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  Internal Director

  Ryo Hirooka

  Biography

  Apr. 1996

  Joined The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Company, Limited (present Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited)

  Sep. 2002

  Joined the Company

  Aug. 2004

  Financial Manager of HOYA HOLDINGS N.V. (Netherlands)

  Feb. 2007

  Director of HOYA HOLDINGS N.V.

  Jul. 2007

  Director of HOYA HOLDINGS N.V., and President of HOYA HOLDINGS (Asia) B.V.

  Jul. 2009

  Deputy CFO of Netherlands Branch of the Company

  Jun. 2013

  Executive Officer & CFO of the Company

  Jun. 2014

  Representative Executive Officer & CFO (present post)

  Jun. 2022

  Director of the Company (present post)

Representative Executive Officer, President & CEO

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  Eiichiro Ikeda

  Eiichiro Ikeda is the Group President and Chief Executive Officer of HOYA Corporation (HOYA). Mr. Ikeda leads and oversees HOYA's corporate direction and strategy to ensure the Company creates value for the communities it serves. His vision is for HOYA to become an undisputed leader in the Company's selected markets through creativity and innovation. Before taking the position as CEO in 2022, he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of HOYA Corporation (HOYA), responsible for leading the group-wide research & development and commercialization of innovative and indispensable high-tech solutions and products. Mr. Ikeda was also responsible for the diversified industrial research and technology organizations of HOYA. He had also led the EUV blanks and HDD substrates businesses that have both been key growth drivers of the Company in recent years.

  Mr. Ikeda joined HOYA in 1992 and grew his career within the organization. In early 2010, he took on the role of Co-CEO of the Memory Disk Division and General Manager of Media and later on became Head of Optical Lens from late 2010 to 2012. He was then promoted to Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Information Technology (IT) in 2013 before taking on the role of Group CTO in 2015 and President of the Eyecare Division in 2019. Not limited to high-tech sectors, he has also contributed to the growth of HOYA's Contact Lens division during his tenure, demonstrating the ability to manage various types of businesses. In addition, he also has a successful track record in business execution, such as concluding the sale of the HDD glass media business.

  Mr. Ikeda holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Chuo University in Japan. He is Japanese and is currently based in Singapore.

Representative Executive Officer, CFO

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  Ryo Hirooka

  Ryo Hirooka is the Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of HOYA Corporation (HOYA) and is responsible for the strategic financial leadership of the Company's operations. As CFO, Mr. Hirooka adopts a proactive and agile financial strategy focusing on capital efficiency. Over the years, he has focused on cash generation and executing initiatives such as promoting CCC (Cash Conversion Cycle), all of which have gained positive attention within the investor community.

  Mr. Hirooka joined the Finance Department of HOYA in 2002 before moving to Netherlands where the Group's Global Financial HQ is located. There, he held various positions such as President of the Dutch Holding company to the Group's Deputy CFO from 2004 to 2013, contributing to finance, tax, accounting, strategic financial planning, and treasury at a group level. Mr. Hirooka became Group CFO in 2013 and was appointed as a Representative Executive Officer of the Company the following year.
  Prior to HOYA, Mr. Hirooka began his career at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (former Sumitomo Trust Bank, Limited), where he worked in the areas of finance and capital markets.

  Mr. Hirooka holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. He is Japanese and is currently based in Singapore.

Executive Officer, Chief Business Development Officer and Chief Legal Officer

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  Augustine Yee

  Mr. Yee is the Global Chief Business Development Officer and Chief Legal Officer at HOYA Corporation (HOYA) and has more than two decades of broad experience in biomedical and high technology management, with an emphasis on the execution of business/commercial, M&A, operational and compliance/governance-related matters.

  He joined HOYA in 2014 and has previously held group-wide oversight responsibility for functions such as corporate and business development, strategy, M&A, venture capital, legal and intellectual property.

  Prior to joining HOYA, Mr. Yee held a range of business, corporate development, and legal senior executive roles at Deltagen (as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Vice President of Corporate Development, ultimately becoming Senior Vice President of Corporate Development), Prometheus Laboratories (where he was Vice President and Head of Business and Corporate Development), and Archemix Corp (where he was Vice President of Business Development). Most recently, Mr. Yee was based in China as the Head of Asia Pacific Regional and Corporate Business Development for AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, where he also held the concurrent in-country role of Vice President of Business Development and New Product Planning for AstraZeneca China.

  Earlier in his career, Mr. Yee practiced law at large U.S.-based law firms such as Lyon and Lyon, where he was a patent and intellectual property attorney, and Pillsbury Winthrop, where he was a corporate, securities and technology attorney. He began his legal career as a judicial law clerk to U.S. Federal District Court Judge Edward Rafeedie, Central District of California. Prior to law school, Mr. Yee was a scientist at the Salk Institute for Biotechnology, Industrial Associates.

  Mr. Yee received his degree in Molecular Biology from the University of California, San Diego, his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law, and he is a registered U.S. patent attorney. He is American and is currently based in Singapore.

Executive Officer, Chief Sustainability (ESG) Officer

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  Tomoko Nakagawa

  As Chief Sustainability Officer, Ms. Nakagawa is responsible for developing and implementing the Sustainability strategy across the Group’s global operations, products, and supply chains. She will focus on engaging and actively communicating HOYA’s strategic Sustainability agenda to external stakeholders. In this role, she will lead the sustainable growth of the organization leveraging on her many years of expertise in Compliance and through her various experiences in managing the Compliance Helpline and leading the Gender Diversity project for the Japanese divisions.

  Ms. Nakagawa joined HOYA in 1990 and grew her career within the organization. She started out in the International Department, which she was responsible for promoting the globalization of the Group. She then joined the Legal Department, where she was in charge of Compliance before taking on the role of General Manager of the General Affairs Department in 2005. In 2019, Ms. Nakagawa launched the first Sustainability (ESG) Committee and was eventually appointed as HOYA Corporation’s Chief Sustainability (ESG) Officer and Head of General Affairs in 2022.

  Ms. Nakagawa holds a Bachelor of Psychology degree from Kenyon College in the U.S and is currently based in Japan.