SENIOR MANAGEMENT

Senior Management

Title Name (Background)  

Representative Director, Chairman and CEO
Hiroichi Yoshida

Background : Previously served as Deputy President of Sumitomo Bank (currently Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) and President/Chairman of SMBC Leasing.
Professor, Keio University Graduate School (until March 2008).

Representative Director, Chairman and CEO Hiroichi Yoshida

Representative Director, President and COO
Kiyomoto Kawakami

Background : Previously served as a lecturer at Keio University,
has continuously worked on the development and manufacture of electric cars.

Representative Director, Executive President and COO Kiyomoto Kawakami

Title Name (Background)
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer and CFO Atsushi Yamada

Background : Previously posted to a U.S. affiliate of THK, served as Manager Corporate Strategy and General Planning for THK, and worked in the Corporate Planning Department of Metts Corporation.

Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer and CTO Hiroshi Sato

Background : Previously worked at Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Engaged in battery product technology at the Company.

Director Koichi Tsukihara

Background : Previously served as Vice-President/Vice-President Executive Officer at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Vice-President Executive Officer at Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, and President/Chairman of Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co, Ltd.
Currently serves as Adviser of Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co, Ltd.

Director Kiyoyuki Tsujimura

Background : Previously served as Senior Executive Vice President of NTT DOCOMO, INC., President and CEO of DOCOMO Engineering, Inc. (currently known as DOCOMO CS, Inc.) and Specially Appointed Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Currently serves as CEO of CarpeDiem, Inc. and Visiting professor of Business Breakthough University and Visiting professor of The University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (III)

Director Naomi Ishii

Background : Previously worked at Toyota Motor Corporation. Currently serves as Representative Director and Executive Vice President, Assistant to President of Suzuki Motor Corporation.

Director Mika Matsuura

Background : Previously worked at Mitsui Bank (currently Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation),served as Executive Officer of Horai Corporation.
Currently serves as Counselor of Horai Corporation.

Standing Statutory Auditor Tomoo Uchida

Background : Previously served as Head of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation's Corporate Planning Department, President of Ginsen Risk Solutions, Administrative Director of Ginsen Risk Solutions, and Standing Statutory Auditor of Ginsen.

Corporate Auditor Masakatsu Mori

Background : Previously served as President Director and Chairman of Accenture Japan Ltd., President and Vice Chairman of the International University of Japan.
Currently serves as a special adviser and emeritus professor at the International University of Japan.

Corporate Auditor Hideaki Sudo

Background : Currently a lawyer at Tokyo Fuji Law Office.

* As of June 19, 2024