Hiroshi Yoshida

Outside Director
Audit Committee chairperson

Hiroshi Yoshida has held key positions at a globally operating listed chemical manufacturer. He has broad knowledge related to finance and accounting, abundant experience in management planning and strategy formulation in the manufacturing industry, and experience as both a corporate executive and an audit & supervisory board member. He assumed the post of outside director of the Company in 2024, and he proactively offers opinions based on his wealth of specialist knowledge related to finance and accounting in addition to his extensive experience in management planning and strategy formulation in the manufacturing industry. In these ways, he fulfills such appropriate roles as supervising and giving advice on business execution. He is expected to continue contributing to the enhancement of the Company’s management going forward. Moreover, as an Audit Committee member, he has worked to strengthen the Company’s corporate governance through audit activities and discussions in the Audit Committee, and he was appointed as an Audit Committee chairperson in June 2025.

Biography

April 1983 Joined Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Present: Resonac Corporation)
June 2001 General Manager in charge of Accounting of Financial Strategy Office
August 2003 General Manager in charge of Finance of Financial Strategy Office
April 2006 Treasurer of Hitachi Chemical Co. America, Ltd.
August 2008 Senior Manager of Corporate Planning & Development Office of Hitachi, Ltd.
October 2009 Senior Manager of Corporate Planning Office of Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
April 2010 Head of Finance Center of CSR Department
April 2014 General Manager of Risk Management Center
April 2015 General Manager of Finance and Accounting Dept. of Corporate Business Strategy Headquarters
April 2016 Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of Corporate Business Strategy Headquarters
June 2020 Audit & Supervisory Board Member (Retired in March 2024)
June 2024 Outside Director of the Company (Present post)