Corporate Officers

As of June 25, 2026

Board of Directors

Hiroshi Baba
President and Representative Director
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Supervising, Business Headquarters
Profile
Date of Birth
May 30, 1963
Apr. 1987
Joined the Company
June 2007
Executive Officer of the Company
June 2009
Director of the Company
June 2012
Managing Executive Officer of the Company
June 2014
Senior Managing Executive Officer of the Company
June 2015
Executive Vice President and Representative Director of the Company
Apr. 2016
President and Representative Director, Chief Operating Officer of the Company
June 2020
Supervising, Business Headquarters of the Company (present position)
Apr. 2022
President and Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer of the Company (present position)
June 2026
Chairman of the Board and Representative Director, NIPPON LINER CO., LTD (present position)
Toshitaka Miyata
Outside Director
Profile
Date of Birth
October 27, 1949
Apr. 1975
Joined the Ministry of Construction (currently Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
Apr. 2005
Director-General, Kyushu Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
July 2006
Director-General, Road Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
July 2008
Retired from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Oct. 2010
Advisor, Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited
Oct. 2013
Representative Director and Senior Executive Officer, Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited
June 2016
Representative Director and President, Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited
May 2022
Chairman, Tokyo Metropolitan Road Council (present position)
June 2022
Chairman, Highway Industry Development Organization (present position)
June 2022
Director of the Company (present position)
Satoko Ito
Outside Director
Profile
Date of Birth
July 3, 1967
Oct. 1989
Commenced activities as a newscaster
Apr. 2010
Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
Apr. 2015
Part-time Lecturer, NIIGATA UNIVERSITY
June 2019
Director of the Company (present position)
June 2020
Corporate Auditor, MITANI SANGYO CO., LTD. (present position)
Director, The Juroku Bank, Ltd.
Oct. 2021
Director, Juroku Financial Group, Inc. (present position)
Apr. 2025
Representative Director, Ito Satoko Office (present position)
May 2025
Outside Director, IDOM Inc. (present position)
Keiko Akaho
Outside Director
Profile
Date of Birth
July 21, 1962
Apr. 1986
Joined The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.
Apr. 2009
Kobe Branch Manager, The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.
Apr. 2011
General Manager of Industry Department No. 1, Headquarters Editorial Board, The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.
Apr. 2016
Chief of Osaka Branch Editorial Board, The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.
Apr. 2023
Management Support Specialist, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN (present position)
Apr. 2023
Economic journalist (present position)
June 2024
Director of the Company (present position)
Tsutomu Tanaka
Outside Director
Profile
Date of Birth
November 29, 1958
Apr. 1981
Joined Nichimen Co., Ltd. (currently, Sojitz Corporation)
Apr. 2011
Executive Officer, Vice COO, Chemical and Functional Materials Division, Sojitz Corporation, and President/CEO Sojitz-Planet Corporation
Apr. 2014
Managing Executive Officer, COO, Chemical Division, Sojitz Corporation
Apr. 2018
Senior Managing Executive Officer, Executive Management of Business Group (Chemicals, Foods & Agriculture Business, Retail & Lifestyle Business, Industrial Infrastructure & Urban Development), Sojitz Corporation
Jul. 2020
Senior Managing Executive Officer, President & CEO for China, Sojitz Corporation
Apr. 2023
Corporate Advisor, Sojitz Corporation
June 2026
Director of the Company (present position)
Tomoyuki Kikuchi
Director
Managing Executive Officer
  • Executives - Finance and Investor Relations
  • General Manager, Corporate Headquarters – Management Strategy & Planning
Profile
Date of Birth
February 13, 1967
Apr. 1990
Joined the Company
Apr. 2014
Executive Officer of the Company
Apr. 2021
Management, Corporate Administration of the Company
June 2021
Director of the Company
Apr. 2023
General Manager, Business Headquarters – Private Sectors of the Company
June 2023
Director, NIHON KOGYO CO., LTD. (present position)
Director of the Company (present position)
Oct. 2023
In charge of Finance and Investor Relations, and General Manager, Business Headquarters – Private Sectors of the Company
Apr. 2024
Managing Executive Officer of the Company (present position)
Executives - Finance and Investor Relations, and Management, Corporate Headquarters – Management Strategy & Planning of the Company (present position)
Apr. 2025
General Manager of Legal & Public Relations Department
Apr. 2026
Chairman of the Board and Representative Director,Sekisui Jushi Trading Co., Ltd. (present position)
Nagaaki Miyoshi
Director
Managing Executive Officer
  • General Manager, Business Headquarters – The Growth Drivers
  • Deputy General Manager, Business Strategy Headquarters
  • Executives- Material Handling Systems, Supplies & Agriculture Business Headquarters
  • General Manager, R&D
Profile
Date of Birth
November 13, 1969
Apr. 1991
Joined the Company
Oct. 2015
Director and President, Sekisui Jushi Europe Holdings B.V. (present position)
Apr. 2018
Executive Officer of the Company
Apr. 2020
General Manager, Development Headquarters of the Company
Oct. 2022
Management, Business Development Department of the Company
Apr. 2023
General Manager, Business Headquarters – The Growth Drivers, of the Company (present position)
General Manager, Global Operations Department of the Company
June 2023
Director of the Company (present position)
Apr. 2025
Supervising Development Section of the Divisions, and Director in charge of Perovskite Solar Business of the Company
Apr. 2026
Managing Executive Officer of the Company (present position)
Deputy General Manager, Business Strategy Headquarters (present position)
Executives- Material Handling Systems, Supplies & Agriculture Business Headquarters (present position) General Manager, R&D of the Company (present position)
Masayuki Higashinaka
Director
Exective Officer
  • General Manager, Material Handling Systems, Supplies & Agriculture Business Headquarters
  • General Manager, Agriculture Business Division
Profile
Date of Birth
August 23, 1971
Apr. 1994
Joined the Company
Aug. 2014
Department Manager, Purchasing Department of the Company
Apr. 2018
Executive Officer of the Company (present position)
Apr. 2019
In charge of the Purchasing Department, and General Manager, Material Handling Systems, Supplies & Agriculture Business Division, Business Headquarters – Private Sectors of the Company
Apr. 2023
Deputy General Manager, Business Headquarters – Private Sectors, and General Manager, Material Handling Systems, Supplies & Agriculture Business Division of the Company
Apr. 2026
General Manager, Material Handling Systems, Supplies & Agriculture Business Headquarters, and General Manager, Agriculture Business Division of the Company (present position)
June 2026
Director of the Company(present position)

Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Akihito Tada
Full-time Auditor
Profile
Date of Birth
January 13, 1965
Apr. 1987
Joined the Company
Apr. 2007
General Manager, Business Support Department of the Company
Oct. 2010
General Manager, Human Resources Department of the Company
Oct. 2013
General Manager, Lifestyle and Agribusiness Division, Industrial and Lifestyle Business Headquarters of the Company
Oct. 2017
Manager, Responsible for Corporate Audit Department of the Company
July 2018
General Manager, Corporate Audit Department of the Company
June 2019
Corporate Auditor, NIHON KOGYO CO., LTD.
June 2021
Full-time Auditor of the Company (present position)
Katsuyoshi Sasaki
Full-time Auditor
Profile
Date of Birth
September 2, 1967
Apr. 1991
Joined the Company
Apr. 2016
Executive Officer of the Company
June 2017
Plant Manager, Shiga Plant of the Company
June 2019
Director of the Company
Apr. 2021
Managing Executive Officer of the Company
Oct. 2021
Management of the Technology, Development, and Production Departments, and General Manager, Technology Center of the Company
June 2023
Sustainability Manager, Manager for Safety, Quality, and Environment, and Purchasing Manager of the Company
Apr. 2024
Sustainability Manager of the Company
June 2024
Corporate Auditor, NIHON KOGYO CO., LTD. (present position)
June 2024
Full-time Auditor of the Company (present position)
Akira Tsujiuchi
Outside Auditor
Profile
Date of Birth
May 24, 1954
Feb. 1978
Joined Tohmatsu Awoki & Co. (currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)
Mar. 1982
Registered as a certified public accountant
June 1998
Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
June 2019
Retired from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
July 2019
Head of Tsujiuchi Accounting Office (present position)
Jan. 2020
Director, Gakujo Co., Ltd. (present position)
June 2020
Auditor of the Company (present position)
June 2021
Corporate Auditor, GS Yuasa Corporation (present position)
Kenzaburo Yazawa
Outside Auditor
Profile
Date of Birth
January 27, 1965
Apr. 1991
Commissioned as a Public prosecutor
Jan. 2019
Prosecutor, Supreme Public Prosecutors Office (in charge of Inspection and Public Security)
July 2019
Chief Prosecutor, Gifu District Public Prosecutors Office
Apr. 2021
Deputy Prosecutor, Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office
June 2022
Deputy Prosecutor, Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office
Jan. 2023
Resigned as prosecutor
Apr. 2023
Registered as an attorney (Osaka Bar Association) Of Counsel, Umeda Law Office (present position)
Apr. 2024
Visiting Professor, Kansai University (present position)
June 2024
Auditor of the Company (present position)
Toshihide Doi
Outside Auditor
Profile
Date of Birth
April 12, 1963
Apr. 1986
Joined Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd. (currently, Tanabe Pharma Corporation)
Mar. 2015
General Manager, Business Promotion Department, Tanabe Pharma Corporation
Apr. 2017
Head of Finance & Accounting Department, Tanabe Pharma Corporation
Apr. 2020
Head of Corporate Management Department, Tanabe Pharma Corporation
Apr. 2021
Executive Officer, Tanabe Pharma Corporation
June 2023
Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Tanabe Pharma Corporation
June 2026
Auditor of the Company (present position)

Executive Officers

Senior Managing Executive Officer Tomohisa Koyama
Senior Managing Executive Officer Masaaki Oe
Managing Executive Officer Shuichiro Takabayashi
Managing Executive Officer Eiji Sasaki
Executive Officer Norio Morioka
Executive Officer Shigeaki Nishio
Executive Officer Banjo Fujii
Executive Officer Daishi Ueno
Executive Officer Takashi Kurimoto
Executive Officer Keiji Ishimori
Executive Officer Norio Nishimura