Directors, Audit & Supervisory Board Members, and Executive OfficersBiography
Members of the Board
As of June 23, 2023
Chairman of the Board

Fumiya Kokubu
1975 | Joined Marubeni Corporation |
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2005 | Executive Officer |
2008 | Managing Executive Officer, Member of the Board |
2010 | Senior Managing Executive Officer |
2012 | Senior Executive Vice President, Member of the Board |
2013 | President and CEO, Member of the Board |
2019 | Chairman of the Board |
President and CEO

Masumi Kakinoki
1980 | Joined Marubeni Corporation |
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2010 | Executive Officer |
2013 | Managing Executive Officer, Member of the Board |
2014 | Managing Executive Officer |
2017 | Senior Managing Executive Officer |
2018 | Senior Executive Vice President, Member of the Board |
2019 | President and CEO, Member of the Board |
Senior Executive Vice President

Akira Terakawa
1981 | Joined Marubeni Corporation |
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2010 | Executive Officer |
2013 | Managing Executive Officer |
2014 | Managing Executive Officer, Members of the Board |
2016 | Managing Executive Officer |
2018 | Senior Managing Executive Officer |
2021 | Senior Executive Vice President, Members of the Board |
Senior Managing Executive Officer

Takayuki Furuya
1987 | Joined Marubeni Corporation |
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2018 | Executive Officer |
2020 | Managing Executive Officer, Member of the Board |
2023 | Senior Managing Executive Officer, Member of the Board |
Outside Directors

Kyohei Takahashi
2002 | Managing Director, Showa Denko K.K. |
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2004 | Senior Managing Director, Showa Denko K.K. |
2005 | President, Showa Denko K.K. |
2007 | President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Showa Denko K.K. |
2011 | Chairman of the Board, Showa Denko K.K. |
2014 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Marubeni Corporation |
2015 | Director, Chairman of the Board, Showa Denko K.K. |
2016 | Member of the Board, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Company (Present Position) |
2017 | Executive Advisor, Showa Denko K.K. |
2023 | Executive Advisor, Resonac Holdings K.K. (former Showa Denko K.K.) (Present Position) |

Yuri Okina
2006 | Research Director, The Japan Research Institute, Limited |
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2014 | Director, Bridgestone Corporation (Present Position) Vice Chairman, The Japan Research Institute, Limited |
2017 | Member of the Board, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) |
2018 | Chairperson, The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Present Position) |

Masato Kitera
2008 | Director-General, International Cooperation Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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2010 | Deputy Minister |
2012 | Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to People's Republic of China |
2016 | Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to France, Andorra, and Monaco (Resigned in Dec. 2019) |
2020 | Member of the Board, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) Member of the Board, Nippon Steel Corporation (Present Position, Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member from June 2022) |
2021 | Member of the Board, Japan Tobacco Inc. (Present Position) |

Shigeki Ishizuka
2017 | Representative Director and President, Sony Imaging Products & Solutions Inc. |
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2018 | Senior EVP, Sony Corporation |
2020 | Representative Director, President and CEO, Sony Electronics Corporation Vice Chairman, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Sony Corporation (Currently, Sony Group Corporation) |
2021 | Director, Sony Corporation Member of the Board, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) |
2023 | Director, LIXIL Corporation (Present Position) |

Hisayoshi Ando
2013 | Director-General of Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
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2015 | Director-General of Commerce and Information Policy Bureau of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
2017 | Director-General of Small and Medium Enterprise Agency of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
2019 | Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Retired in July 2021) |
2021 | Executive Adviser, Nippon Life Insurance Company |
2022 | Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd. (Present Position) Member of the Board, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) |
2023 | President & CEO, Tokyo Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation CO., LTD. (Present Position) |

Mutsuko Hatano
2005 | Chief Researcher of Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
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2010 | Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
2014 | Council Member, Science Council of Japan |
2016 | Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Reorganized) (Present Position) Director, Ricoh Company, Ltd. |
2020 | Representative Director and President, The Japan Society of Applied Physics Member, Science Council of Japan (Present Position) |
2022 | Senior Aide to the President, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Present Position) Adjunct Executive Member, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office (Present Position) Auditor, The Japan Society of Applied Physics (Present Position) |
2023 | Member of the Board, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) |
Audit & Supervisory Board Members
Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Takao Ando
1985 | Joined Marubeni Corporation |
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2019 | Executive Officer |
2022 | Managing Executive Officer |
2023 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member |

Toshiaki Kida
1984 | Joined Marubeni Corporation |
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2021 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member |
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Tsuyoshi Yoneda
2009 | Commissioner-General's Secretariat, National Police Agency |
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2011 | Deputy Directors-General, National Police Agency |
2013 | Commissioner General, National Police Agency (~January, 2015) |
2015 | Director, Japan Exchange Group, Inc. |
2017 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) |

Yoichi Kikuchi
2010 | Head of Tokushima District Court & Family Court |
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2011 | Head of Kyoto District Court |
2013 | Chief Judge of Division, Tokyo High Court |
2017 | Head of Hiroshima High Court (Resigned in Aug. 2018) |
2018 | Registered as attorney-at-law (Present Position) |
2020 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) |
2021 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Company (Present Position) |

Shigeru Nishiyama
2006 | Professor, Waseda University Graduate School (Business School) (Currently, Waseda Business School (Graduate School of Business and Finance)) (Present Position) |
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2018 |
Specially Appointed Professor, Shizenkan University Graduate School of Leadership & Innovation (Present Position) Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee, Macromill, Inc. (Present Position) |
2020 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Marubeni Corporation (Present Position) |
2021 | Director, Member of the Board, TOKYO ENERGY & SYSTEMS INC. (Present Position) |
2022 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member (Outside), NH Foods Ltd. (Present Position) |