Management and Board of Directors

Mitsuhiro Nagahama

Outside Director
the Remuneration Committee Chairperson

Mitsuhiro Nagahama possesses broad knowledge and extensive experience in corporate management, financial/securities sectors and global business, as he has successively served in important posts at financial institutions. He was appointed as an Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member in 2015, and has audited the Company’s overall business with his outstanding insights on corporate governance and ideal way of company management, contributing to the improvement of the Company’s corporate governance and internal control from an independent perspective. Furthermore, he has not only supervised business execution as an Outside Director since 2019, but also proactively offered opinions to enhance management transparency and fairness from the perspective of the capital markets and based on a global perspective. In these ways, he fulfills such appropriate roles as supervising and giving advice on business execution. He is expected to continue contributing to increasing the level of the Company’s management going forward. Therefore, the Company has judged him to be an appropriate and necessary person for the enhancement of sustainable enterprise value.

Biography

April 1976 Joined The Fuji Bank Limited. (Present: Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
March 2003 Executive Officer and General Manager of Otemachi Corporate Banking Division No. 6 and Otemachi Corporate Banking Division No. 7, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (Present: Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
April 2005 Senior Executive Officer in charge of Corporate Banking, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
March 2006 Senior Executive Officer and Head of the Americas, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
April 2010 Deputy President and Deputy President-Executive Officer and Head of the Americas, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
March 2013 Retired from Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
April 2013 Chairman of the Board of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. & Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
April 2015 Adviser of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
June 2015 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company
March 2018 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of KURARAY Co., Ltd. (Present post)
March 2019 Outside Director of Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd.
June 2019 Outside Director (Present post)
June 2019 Representative Director of Japan Economic Research Institute
March 2020 Retired from Adviser of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
June 2020 Outside Director of NSK Ltd. (Present post)
March 2021 Retired from Outside Director of Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd.