Management and Board of Directors

Shigeaki Yoshikawa

Outside Director
the Nomination Committee Member

Shigeaki Yoshikawa has held key positions in a general trading company with global operations, and has broad knowledge and abundant experience regarding overseas business development and business portfolio strategies, as well as corporate management experience and so forth at a think-tank consulting firm. The Company expects that as Outside Director of the Company he will utilize his extensive experience and insight into overseas business, as well as his knowledge of marketing and sales, to offer objective indications and advice for the enhancement of management transparency and fairness from wide-ranging perspectives in addition to supervise business executions for the Board of Directors. The Company has judged him to be an appropriate and necessary person for the enhancement of sustainable enterprise value.

Biography

April 1977 Joined Mitsubishi Corporation
June 2004 General Manager of Singapore Branch
July 2006 General Manager of Regional Strategy & Coordination Dept.
April 2008 Senior Vice President, General Manager of Global Strategy & Coordination Dept.
April 2010 Senior Vice President, Chief Regional Officer for the Middle East
April 2013 Executive Vice President, Regional CEO for the Middle East & Central Asia
March 2016 Retired from Executive Vice President
April 2016 Corporate Advisor
August 2016 Retired from Mitsubishi Corporation
September 2016 Corporate Advisor of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
October 2016 Executive Vice President
December 2016 Representative Member of the Board, Executive Vice President & COO
December 2020 Senior Corporate Advisor
April 2021 Advisor to the Chancellor, Visiting Professor (Department of Business Design), Research Fellow (Institute of Current Business Studies) of Showa Women’s University, Tokyo (Present post)
June 2021 Vice Chairman & Executive Director of The Japan Singapore Association (Present post)
June 2022 Outside Director of the Company (Present post)
June 2023 Outside Director of Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Present post)