Management and Board of Directors

Takayuki Yokota

director, representative corporate executive deputy president
Section : Remuneration Committee member, assistant to president, corporate administration, management, corporate communication, sustainability (& azbil Group CSR), Life Automation business

Takayuki Yokota has been successively serving as the head of Group Management Headquarters and the head of International Business Headquarters of Azbil Corporation. He assumed the post of director in 2018 and has been responsible for overall corporate administrative functions, and he has worked on risk management, corporate governance, CSR initiatives, active returns to shareholders as well as appropriate compliance in accounting. Moreover, he is making use of his experience of global business and IR activities, gained at a financial institution, to improve the structure of overseas subsidiaries as well as develop a global foundation for overseas business growth. Also, as the chief officer in charge of Corporate Communications, he is actively promoting measures such as constructive communication with stakeholders. Moreover, as representative corporate executive following the Company’s transition to a company with a three-committee board structure, he has been serving as a person responsible for overall corporate administrative functions, including sustainability, and since April 2023, also responsible for promoting the Life Automation business.

Biography

April 1983 Joined The Fuji Bank, Limited (Present: Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
November 2005 Chief IR Officer at Investor Relations, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
April 2010 Executive Officer and Head of the Investment Banking Business Management Department, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited (Present: Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
June 2012 Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Mizuho Research Institute Ltd. (Present: Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd.)
April 2013 Joined the Company (Senior Director)
April 2014 Executive Officer, Head of Group Management Headquarters
April 2016 Managing Executive Officer, Head of Group Management Headquarters
April 2017 Managing Executive Officer, Head of Group Management Headquarters and Head of International Business Headquarters
April 2018 Managing Executive Officer
June 2018 Director and Managing Executive Officer
April 2020 Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer
June 2022 Director, Representative Senior Managing Corporate Executive
June 2023 Director, Representative Corporate Executive Deputy President (Present post)