Chairman and Director

Akira Okuma

Apr. 1955
Joined Ohkuma Ind. Co., Ltd.
Jul. 1986
President and Representative Director, Ohkuma Ind. Co., Ltd. (current position)
May. 2010
Director, the Company
Jul. 2010
Director, AFJ Project, Inc.
Sep. 2011
President and Representative Director, the Company
Sep. 2011
President and Representative Director, AFJ Project, Inc.
Jun. 2014
Chairman and Representative Director, the Company
Jun. 2014
Chairman and Representative Director, AFJ Project, Inc.
Dec. 2014
Representative Director, SAYA PTE Ltd. (current position)
Nov. 2015
Representative Director, Oak Co., Ltd. (current position)
Jun. 2018
Director and Chairman, the Company (current position)
Jun. 2018
Chairman and Director, AFJ Project, Inc. (current position)

CEO, Representative Director

Kiyoaki Yamabe

Apr. 1984
Joined Nippon Roche K.K.
Jan. 1997
Joined Hilti (Japan) Ltd.
Nov. 1999
Joined Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.
Jun. 2000
Managing Director, Fast Retailing (U.K.) Ltd.
Sep. 2002
President, Spine Company, Johnson & Johnson DePuy Japan Inc.
Aug. 2004
Managing Director, General Manager of Health Group, Kodak Japan Ltd.
May. 2007
Representative Director and President, Carestream Health Japan Co., Ltd.
May. 2008
Representative Director and President, CSL Behring K.K.
Jun. 2017
COO and Acting CEO, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund)
Jun. 2022
Outside Director, the Company
Jun. 2022
Director, AFJ Project, Inc.
Jun. 2023
CEO, Representative Director, the Company (current position)
Jun. 2023
CEO, Representative Director, AFJ Project, Inc. (current position)

Outside Director

Mitsuhiko Uehira

Apr. 1979
Joined Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Jun. 2012
Executive Officer and General Manager of Domestic Business Planning Department, Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
Jun. 2013
Managing Executive Officers, Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd.
Jun. 2017
Director and President, CEO Representative Executive Officer, Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd.
Jun. 2022
Outside Director, the Company (current position)
Jun. 2022
Director, AFJ Project, Inc. (current position)

Outside Director

Sachiko Ohi

Jan. 1988
Joined Meiji Life Insurance Company (now Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company)
Jun. 1989
Joined Moody’s Investors Service
Jun. 1991
Vice President, Fixed Income Research, Lehman Brothers
Jul. 1992
Vice President, Fixed Income Sales, Kidder, Peabody & Co. (now UBS Group AG)
Jan. 1995
Managing Director, Strategic Alternative Inestment Logistics, LLC
Jul. 2007
Executive Vice President, Institutional Sales, UBP Investments
Jan. 2009
President, SAIL, Co. Ltd. (current position)
Apr. 2014
Research Fellow at Institute of Political Science & Economics, Musashino University Visiting professor at Musashino University (current position)
Jun. 2018
Director at Research Institute for Policies on Pension & Aging (current position)
Jun. 2019
Director at Universal Communication Design Association (current position)

Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)

Naoki Inoue

Apr. 1987
Joined Kirin Brewery Company, Limited
Sep. 1993
Earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in the U.S.
Aug. 2005
Joined Morgan Stanley Capital K.K.
Mar. 2012
Director, Panorama Hotels One
Mar. 2013
Representative Director, Panorama Hotels One
Jul. 2016
Director and CFO, US.MART
Jun. 2019
Representative Director, US.MART
Apr. 2021
Senior Vice President of Administration HQ, the Company
Jun. 2022
Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member), the Company (current position)
Jun. 2022
Audit & Supervisory Board Member, AFJ Project, Inc. (current position)

Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)

Hirofumi Kubota

Oct. 1985
Joined Asahi Shinwa & Co. (now KPMG AZSA LLC)
Jul. 2019
Member of the Management Oversight Committee at the company
Jul. 2022
Chief of the Kubota certified public accountant firm (current position)
Jul. 2022
Representative Director, Ishikettei Consulting K.K. (current position)
Apr. 2023
Business Administration Professor, Otemae University (current position)

Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)

Maki Imura

Jul. 1985
Joined Grey Daiko,Inc.(now Grey Worldwide,Inc.)
Jul. 1989
Joined Dentsu Burson-Marsteller, Inc. (now Burson Cohn & Wolfe Japan Inc.)
Jul. 1998
General Manager of Global Account Department,Dentsu Public Relations Inc.
May. 2005
Vice President and General Manager of Corporate Communications Division, Visa Worldwide Co., Ltd. (now Visa Worldwide (Japan) Co., Ltd.)
Oct. 2009
Vice President and General Manager of Corporate Communications Department, Nihon L’Oréal K.K.
Jun. 2019
Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member), TANABE CONSULTING GROUP CO., LTD. (current position)
Jun. 2021
Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member), the Company (current position)
Jun. 2021
Auditor, AFJ Project, Inc. (current position)

Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)

Masami Hamaoka

Apr. 1979
Joined the Bank of Japan
Jun. 2011
Outside Auditor, The Daisan Bank, Ltd. (now San ju San Bank Ltd.)
Sep. 2018
Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member, Navel Japan (current position)
Nov. 2021
Auditor, Silicagen Co., Ltd. (current position)
Mar. 2023
Executive Director, Harada Sekizenkai Foundation (current position)

Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)

Daisuke Sakai

Oct. 2003
Registered as attorney at law (training period: 56th period)
Oct. 2003
Joined Kitahama Partners
Sep. 2009
Joined KPMG India (Delhi Office)
Sep. 2010
Registered as an attorney in New York State, USA
Associate of Kitahama Partners
Jan. 2012
Partner of Kitahama Partners (current position)

Mr. Mitsuhiko Uehira, Ms. Sachiko Ohi, Mr. Hirofumi Kubota, Ms. Maki Imura, Mr. Masami Hamaoka and Mr. Daisuke Sakai are outside directors.