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Independent Director, Lead Director,
Chairperson of the Nomination Committee,
Member of the Compensation Committee,
Member of the Audit CommitteeMitsudo Urano
(Born on Mar. 20, 1948)
- Number of years in office of the Director of the Company
8 years
- Number of shares of the Company held
5,000 shares
- Number of attendances to the Board meetings
9/9 times (100%)
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)
Important positions of other companies concurrently held
Outside Director of Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
Reason for the selection for Director
Mr. Urano focused on capital efficiency from the early stage in Nichirei Corporation, a leading Japanese frozen food manufacturer, and developed efficient management through company split-ups and informatization. He particularly has extensive experience and solid achievements on management informatization. In addition to the achievements in Nichirei Corporation, the Company’s Nomination Committee expects that he will make a great contribution to enhance management efficiency and transparency through giving advice and proposals on overall company management with his deep insight and extensive experience as management having served as an outside director and outside corporate auditor in other companies listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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Independent Director,
Chairperson of the Audit Committee,
Member of the Nomination Committee,
Member of the Compensation CommitteeYukako Uchinaga
(Born on Jul. 5, 1946)
- Number of years in office of the Director of the Company
8 years
- Number of shares of the Company held
1,000 shares
- Number of attendances to the Board meetings
9/9 times (100%)
Biography
- Jul. 1971
Joined IBM Japan, Ltd.
- Apr. 1995
Director in charge of Asia Pacific Products of IBM Japan, Ltd.
- Apr. 2000
Managing Director and Head of Tokyo Software Development Laboratory of IBM Japan, Ltd.
- Apr. 2004
Director and Senior Executive Officer in charge of Development & Manufacturing of IBM Japan, Ltd.
- Apr. 2007
Technical Advisor of IBM Japan, Ltd. (retired in March 2008)
- Apr. 2007
Board Chair of Japan Women’s Innovative Network (J-WIN) (present post)
- Jun. 2007
Director of Benesse Corporation
- Apr. 2008
Director and Vice Chairman of Benesse Corporation
- Apr. 2008
Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO of Berlitz Corporation
- Oct. 2009
Director and Executive Vice President of Benesse Holdings, Inc. (retired in June 2013)
- Apr. 2013
Honorary Chairman of Berlitz Corporation (retired in June 2013)
- Jun. 2013
Director of the Company (present post)
- Sep. 2013
President & CEO of Globalization Research Institute Co., Ltd. (present post)
- Apr. 2014
Board Chair of Japan Diversity Network Association (retired in January 2019)
Important positions of other companies concurrently held
Board Chair of J-WIN, Non-Profit Organization
Outside Director of Teijin Limited
Outside Director of SINTOKOGIO, LTD.Reason for the selection for Director
Ms. Uchinaga is a pioneer of female executive officers as she was promoted to the first female director of IBM Japan, Ltd. Then, as CEO of Berlitz Corporation under Benesse Holdings, Inc., she established a brand of a “global human resource development enterprise” and achieved superior results as the English language school at which Japanese management personnel are educated and trained so as to survive global economic competition. In addition, for many years, she has devoted herself to activities for promoting the active participation of women by corporations and has also provided the Company with advice on promoting diversity. The Company’s Nomination Committee expects she will even more greatly contribute to the effective use of IT for management purposes, the globalization of human resources, and diversity management in the Company.
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Independent Director,
Chairperson of the Compensation Committee,
Member of the Nomination Committee,
Member of the Audit CommitteeShuzo Kaihori
(Born on Jan. 31, 1948)
- Number of years in office of the Director of the Company
6 years
- Number of shares of the Company held
1,000 shares
- Number of attendances to the Board meetings
9/9 times (100%)
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)
Important positions of other companies concurrently held
Outside Director of Eisai Co., Ltd.
Reason for the selection for Director
Mr. Kaihori assumed the presidency of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, which operates a test and measurement business and industrial automation and control business, in 2007 when the company faced difficult business conditions, then was committed to turning around the company and achieved a surplus by changing the business model from hardware to software and promoting globalization. The Company’s Nomination Committee expects that he will contribute greatly to the Company’s management from his performance that he boldly responded to changes in the business environment and achieved results and by giving advice on strengthening of software business, which is a challenge for the Life Care segment, an area expected to grow, based on his extensive experience.
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Independent Director,
Member of the Nomination Committee,
Member of the Compensation Committee,
Member of the Audit CommitteeHiroaki Yoshihara
(Born on Feb. 9, 1957)
- Number of years in office of the Director of the Company
3 years
- Number of shares of the Company held
0 share
- Number of attendances to the Board meetings
9/9 times (100%)
Biography
- Nov. 1978
Joined Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.
- Jul. 1996
National Managing Partner, the Pacific Rim Practice of KPMG LLP
- Oct. 1997
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)
Important positions of other companies concurrently held
Outside Director of Eisai Co., Ltd.
Reason for the selection for Director
Mr. Kaihori assumed the presidency of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, which operates a test and measurement business and industrial automation and control business, in 2007 when the company faced difficult business conditions, then was committed to turning around the company and achieved a surplus by changing the business model from hardware to software and promoting globalization. The Company’s Nomination Committee expects that he will contribute greatly to the Company’s management from his performance that he boldly responded to changes in the business environment and achieved results and by giving advice on strengthening of software business, which is a challenge for the Life Care segment, an area expected to grow, based on his extensive experience.
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Independent Director,
Member of the Nomination Committee,
Member of the Compensation Committee,
Member of the Audit CommitteeYasuyuki Abe
(Born on Apr. 17, 1952)
- Number of years in office of the Director of the Company
New
- Number of shares of the Company hel
0 share
- Number of attendances to the Board meetings
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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)
Important positions of other companies concurrently held
Advisor of ORANGE AND PARTNERS CO., LTD.
Outside Director of SUBARU CORPORATIONReason for the selection for Director
Mr. Abe was primarily engaged in the electric power, machinery, and information fields at Sumitomo Corporation, a general trading company. After stationed twice in the United States, he served as representative director and president of the company’s electronics and information related subsidiaries. Subsequently, as a representative director of Sumitomo Corporation, he was engaged in the company’s financial, logistics and new business development. The Company’s Nomination Committee has judged that he will contribute to the Board of Directors of the Company through his wide-ranging experience at the general trading company, his global mindset cultivated over the years of stay in the United States, his business experience nurtured as a representative director and president, and his experience as an independent director gained at other companies after leaving Sumitomo Corporation.
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Director
Chairperson of the Board of DirectorsHiroshi Suzuki
(Born on Aug. 31, 1958)
- Number of years in office of the Director of the Company
28 years
- Number of shares of the Company held
84,980 shares
- Number of attendances to the Board meetings
9/9 times(100%)
Biography
- Apr. 1985
Joined the Company
- Jun. 1993
Director of the Company
- Jun. 1997
Managing Director of the Company
- Apr. 1999
Managing Director of the Company, President of Electro Optics Company
- Jun. 1999
Executive Managing Director of the Company
- Jun. 2000
Representative Director, President & CEO of the Company
- Jun. 2003
Director, Representative Executive Officer, President & CEO of the Company
- Dec. 2011
Chief Representative of Singapore Branch of the Company
- Mar. 2022
Director (present post)
Important positions of other companies concurrently held
Outside Director of KIOXIA Holdings Corporation (former Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation)