Biographies of Directors and Corporate Auditors
As of June 27, 2026
Chairman, Representative Director,
Board Member
Minako Suzuki
Date of Birth: August 30, 1961
| September 2003 | Joined the company as General Manager, President’s Office |
| January 2004 | General Manager, President’s Office and General Manager, Systems Department, Administration Division |
| June 2004 | Director, General Manager, Administration Division, and General Manager, Systems Department |
| June 2007 | Managing Director |
| October 2016 | Director, Vice president |
| June 2017 | Representative director, President |
| June 2021 | Representative director, President and Executive officer |
| April 2025 | Chairman, Representative Director, Board Member (to present) |
| June 2025 | Outside director, Chikaranomoto Holdings Co., Ltd. (to present) |
President, Representative Director,
Board Member
Executive officer, Sales Supervisory Department
Toru Taniguchi
Date of Birth: July 6, 1968
| April 1993 | Joined Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. |
| March 2005 | Joined The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. |
| November 2010 | Joined PARCO CO.,LTD. |
| April 2015 | Joined the company as General Manager, Corporate Planning Division |
| June 2019 | Senior Managing Director |
| June 2021 | Director and Senior Executive Officer |
| April 2023 | Representative director, Vice president, and Executive officer |
| April 2024 | Representative director, Vice president, and Executive officer and General Manager, Factory Solutions Business Division |
| February 2025 | President, Representative Director, Board Member, Suzumo International Corporation |
| April 2025 | President, Representative Director, Board Member |
| April 2026 | President, Representative Director, Board Member, and Executive officer, Sales Supervisory Department(to present) |
Outside director
Akio Takahashi
Date of Birth: March 15, 1956
| April 1978 | Joined Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. |
| April 2009 | Executive Managing Director, Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd. (currently Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.) |
| June 2012 | Director and Executive Vice President, Daiwa Securities Group Inc. |
| April 2015 | President and Representative Director, Daiwa Investment Management Inc |
| July 2017 | Outside Director, Biomass Fuel Co., Ltd. |
| June 2019 | Outside director, the Company (to present) |
| December 2019 | Outside Director, MTG Co., Ltd. |
| March 2025 | Outside Director, KOBAYASHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. (to present) |
Director, Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Committee Board Member
Jun Kono
Date of Birth: July 20, 1962
| March 2010 | Joined the Company as Manager, Tokyo Plant |
| July 2010 | Technical Manager, Tokyo Plant |
| April 2012 | Manager, Technical Management Department, Tokyo Plant |
| October 2015 | Manager, Product Department |
| July 2019 | General Manager, Audit Office |
| June 2022 | Full-Time corporate auditor, the Company |
| June 2026 | Director, Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Committee Board Member, the Company (to present) |
Outside director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Board Member
Junya Murai
Date of Birth: July 9, 1971
| October 1999 | Joined Showa Ota & Co. (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC) |
| August 2010 | Registered as an attorney at law (current) |
| October 2010 | Registered as a certified public accountant (current) |
| March 2019 | Representative, Murai Law and Accounting Office (to present) |
| June 2023 | Outside corporate auditor, the Company |
| June 2026 | Outside director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Board Member, the Company (to present) |
Outside director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Board Member
Hitomi Yamamoto
Date of Birth: December 3, 1960
| April 1981 | Joined ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS Co., Ltd. |
| April 2015 | Executive Officer, Head of Cabin Services |
| April 2019 | Director, Managing Executive Officer, Board Member |
| April 2021 | Director, Executive Vice President, Board Member, ANA Strategic Research Institute Co., Ltd. |
| June 2022 | Outside director, Kyushu Railway Company (to present) |
| June 2022 | Outside corporate auditor, West Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. |
| April 2025 | Advisor, ANA Strategic Research Institute Co., Ltd. (to present) |
| June 2026 | Outside director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Board Member, the Company (to present) |
