Management and Board of Directors

Shigeaki Yoshikawa

outside director
Nomination Committee chairperson

Shigeaki Yoshikawa has held key positions in a general trading company with global operations, and has broad knowledge and abundant experience regarding overseas business development and business portfolio strategies, as well as corporate management experience and so forth at a think-tank consulting firm. He assumed the post of outside director of the Company in 2022, and has proactively offered his opinions regarding the Company’s international business strategies, approach to business strategies for medium- to long-term growth and human resource development based on his extensive experience and insight into overseas business, as well as his knowledge of marketing and sales. In these ways, he fulfills such appropriate roles as supervising and giving advice on business execution, and is expected to continue contributing to the enhancement of the Company’s management going forward. Moreover, as a Nomination Committee member, he works to strengthen the Company’s corporate governance through discussions in the Nomination Committee.

Biography

April 1977 Joined Mitsubishi Corporation
June 2004 General Manager of Singapore Branch
July 2006 General Manager of Regional Strategy & Coordination Dept.
April 2008 Senior Vice President, General Manager of Global Strategy & Coordination Dept.
April 2010 Senior Vice President, Chief Regional Officer for the Middle East
April 2013 Executive Vice President, Regional CEO for the Middle East & Central Asia
April 2016 Corporate Advisor (Retired in August 2016)
September 2016 Corporate Advisor of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
October 2016 Executive Vice President
December 2016 Representative Member of the Board, Executive Vice President & COO
December 2020 Corporate Advisor
April 2021 Visiting Professor (Department of Business Design, Faculty of Global Business), Research Fellow (Institute of Current Business Studies) of Showa Women’s University, Tokyo (Present post)
June 2021 Vice Chairman & Executive Director of The Japan Singapore Association (Present post)
Jan 2022 Senior Corporate Advisor of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc (Retired in December 2023)
June 2022 Outside Director of the Company (Present post)
June 2023 Chairman & Representative Director of The Japan Singapore Association (Present post)
June 2023 Outside Director of Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Present post)