Corporate Governance

• Director, President & CEO

  Masahiro Ito

  

  Masa launched his first company Yappa at just 17 years old. In 2014, Masa joined ZOZO Group through M&A and served as the CEO of ZOZO Technologies. Later, Masa was appointed as the Board member and COO of ZOZO, which is now well-known for his many innovative inventions, including 3D body measuring devices such as ZOZOSUIT and ZOZOMAT.

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• Chairman of the Board

  Hardy T S Kagimoto, M. D.

  

  Hardy is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Healios, a biotech company leading the development of stem cell derived regenerative therapies. Prior to that, he founded and ran as President and CEO of Aqumen Biopharmaceuticals. Graduated from Kyushu University School of Medicine, Hardy holds patents in the US, Europe, Japan and China.

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• Executive Officer CFO

  Toshiyuki Fujita

  

  Toshi led RareJob as its Director and CFO in 2012 and was appointed as the Executive VP in 2015. Prior to that, Toshi worked for KPMG, where he engaged in M&A and corporate reinvigoration. He also has experience taking an IT start-up public on TSE Mothers as its Director and CFO after working for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

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• Executive Officer in charge of sales

  Hidemi Nakaya

  

  Hidemi joined Keyence in 1996 after working at an automotive company. He specialized in sales consulting and marketing before transitioning to the Business Development Division and the Global Business Development Division. From 2014, Hidemi led the business expansion of Keyence's overseas subsidiaries, serving as CBDO (Chief Business Development Officer) at the German subsidiary and as Director of the Singapore subsidiary.

• External Director

  Paolo Cerruti

  

  Paolo is Co-Founder and COO of Northvolt, a homegrown European battery company that is building a Gigafactory in Sweden and has to date raised more than 6.5 Bn USD. Previously, Paolo was the VP of Purchasing and Industrial Strategy for Tesla, and was instrumental in the early scale-up of the company and its operations.

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• External Director

  Caesar Sengupta

  

  Caesar was formerly the VP and GM of Payments at Google, leading the Next Billion Users initiative across the company. He also oversaw Chrome OS, Google Pay and managed all payment systems. After 15 years at Google, Caesar has launched his new fintech startup Arbo Works.

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• External Director

  Mark Tercek

  

  Mark led the environmental NGO the Nature Conservancy as its CEO for 11 years until 2019. Previously, he was MD and Partner at Goldman Sachs for 24 years. Mark now advises companies, investors, and NGOs on environmental strategies. He was recently appointed as Senior Advisor at Centerview Partners.

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• External Director

  Mitsugu Serizawa

  

  Mitsugu first joined Mitsui Bank (now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.) in 1980 and was appointed as COO of SMBC Europe Ltd. in 2005. Later, he led Manufacturers Bank (US) as Chairman and CEO. From 2015, he oversaw SMBC International Business as President and from 2018 to 2020 SMBC Operation Service as Deputy President.

• External Director

  Tatsuya Sakuma

  

  Tatsuya was the Public Prosecutor of Tokyo, Naha and Niigata District Public Prosecutors Offices before being appointed to multiple government offices including the Ministry of Justice, Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and more. He is now a lawyer and the Outside Director of companies such as AEON Financial Group.