Director Profiles
(As of October 1, 2023)
Board of Directors

- Name
- Minoru Usui
- Current position
- Chairman and Director
Work history | |
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November 1979 |
Joined Shinshu Seiki Co., Ltd. (now Seiko Epson Corporation) |
April 1997 |
Appointed General Manager, IJ Development & Design Department, Imaging & Information Products Operations Division |
April 2002 |
Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Imaging & Information Products Operations Division |
June 2002 |
Appointed Director |
November 2004 |
Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, Corporate Research & Development Division |
November 2005 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Production Engineering & Development Division |
July 2007 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Corporate Research & Development Division |
October 2007 |
Appointed Managing Director |
June 2008 |
Appointed President and Representative Director Appointed Chief Executive Officer |
April 2020 |
Appointed Chairman and Director (current position) |

- Name
- Yasunori Ogawa
- Current position
- President and Representative Director
Work history | |
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April 1988 |
Joined Seiko Epson Corporation |
April 2008 |
Appointed General Manager, VI Business Management Department |
October 2008 |
Appointed General Manager, VI Planning & Design Department |
April 2017 |
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Visual Products Operations Division |
June 2017 |
Appointed Executive Officer |
June 2018 |
Appointed Director, Executive Officer |
October 2018 |
Appointed Chief Technology Officer Appointed General Administrative Manager, Technology Development Division |
June 2019 |
Appointed Director, Managing Executive Officer Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Wearable Products & Industrial Solutions Operations Segment |
April 2020 |
Appointed President and Representative Director (current position) Appointed Chief Executive Officer (current position) |

- Name
- Tatsuaki Seki
- Current position
- Representative Director,
Senior Managing Executive Officer
Work history | |
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April 1983 |
Joined Epson Corporation (now Seiko Epson Corporation) |
November 2005 |
Appointed General Manager, BS Business Management Support Department |
October 2014 |
Appointed General Manager, Financial & General Accounting Department |
October 2015 |
Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, Management Control Division |
June 2016 |
Appointed Director, Executive Officer Appointed Chief Financial Officer (current position) Appointed Chief Compliance Officer (current position) Appointed Chief Corporate Communications Officer (current position) Appointed General Administrative Manager, Management Control Division |
June 2019 |
Appointed Director, Managing Executive Officer |
October 2020 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Corporate Strategy and Management Control Division Appointed General Administrative Manager, Sustainability Promotion Office (current position) |
April 2021 |
Appointed Chief Sustainability Officer (current position) |
April 2022 |
Appointed Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer |
April 2023 |
Appointed Representative Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer (current position) |
October 2023 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Business Management Division (current position) |

- Name
- Mari Matsunaga
- Current position
- Outside Director
Work history | |
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April 1977 |
Joined Japan Recruit Center Co., Ltd. (now Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.) |
July 1986 |
Appointed Editor in chief of Shushoku Journal, Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. |
July 1988 |
Appointed Editor in chief of Travaille, Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. |
July 1997 |
Joined NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (now NTT DoCoMo, Inc.) Appointed Head of Planning Office for Gateway Business Dept. |
April 2000 |
Appointed Representative, Mari Matsunaga Office |
June 2012 |
Appointed Outside Director, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. Appointed Independent Director, Terumo Corporation |
June 2014 |
Appointed External Director, ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. |
June 2016 |
Appointed Outside Director, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |
March 2023 |
Appointed Outside Director, Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. (current position) |

- Name
- Tadashi Shimamoto
- Current position
- Outside Director
Work history | |
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April 2002 |
Appointed Senior Managing Director, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. |
June 2008 |
Appointed Senior Executive Managing Director, Member of the Board and Representative Director, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. |
April 2010 |
Appointed President & CEO, Representative Director, Member of the Board, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. |
April 2015 |
Appointed Chairman and President & CEO, Representative Director, Member of the Board, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. |
April 2016 |
Appointed Chairman, Member of the Board, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. |
June 2019 |
Appointed Member of the Board, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. |
June 2021 |
Appointed Special Advisor, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (current position) |
June 2021 |
Appointed Director, Reading Skill Test, Inc. (current position) |
March 2022 |
Appointed Outside Director, Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd. (current position) |
July 2022 |
Appointed Member of the Public Interest Body, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC (current position) |
June 2023 |
Appointed Outside Director, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |

- Name
- Masaki Yamauchi
- Current position
- Outside Director
Work history | |
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April 2005 |
Appointed Executive Officer, Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. (now Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd.) |
April 2008 |
Appointed Representative Director, President and Executive Officer, Yamato Logistics Co., Ltd. (now Yamato Transport Co., Ltd.) |
April 2011 |
Appointed Representative Director, President and Executive Officer, Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. |
June 2011 |
Appointed Director and Executive Officer, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. |
April 2015 |
Appointed Representative Director, Executive Officer and President, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. |
April 2019 |
Appointed Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. |
June 2020 |
Appointed Independent Director, Persol Holdings Co., Ltd. (current position) |
June 2022 |
Appointed Special Advisor, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. Appointed Outside Director, Resona Holdings, Inc. (current position) |
June 2023 |
Appointed Adviser, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. (current position) Appointed Outside Director, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |

- Name
- Masayuki Kawana
- Current position
- Director, Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history | |
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April 1988 |
Joined Seiko Epson Cooperative Union |
March 1999 |
Joined Seiko Epson Corporation |
October 2008 |
Appointed General Manager, Human Resources Department |
June 2014 |
Appointed Director Appointed Chief Human Resources Officer Appointed General Administrative Manager, Human Resources Division |
June 2015 |
Appointed President, Orient Watch Co., Ltd. |
June 2016 |
Appointed Director, Executive Officer |
October 2016 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, CSR Management Office |
June 2018 |
Appointed Chairman, Epson Sales Japan Corporation |
April 2020 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Health Management Office |
June 2021 |
Appointed Director, Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (current position) |

- Name
- Yoshio Shirai
- Current position
- Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history | |
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June 2001 |
Appointed Member of the Board of Directors, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION |
June 2003 |
Appointed Managing Officer, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION |
June 2005 |
Appointed Senior Executive Member of the Board of Directors, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION |
June 2007 |
Appointed Executive Vice President, Member of the Board, Hino Motors, Ltd. |
June 2008 |
Appointed President, Member of the Board, Hino Motors, Ltd. |
June 2013 |
Appointed Councilor, Hino Motors, Ltd. Appointed Vice Chairman, Toyota Tsusho Corporation |
June 2015 |
Appointed Advisor, Toyota Tsusho Corporation |
June 2016 |
Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |
June 2017 |
Appointed Advisor, Hino Motors, Ltd. Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Fujikura Ltd. |

- Name
- Susumu Murakoshi
- Current position
- Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history | |
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April 1976 |
Registered as an attorney-at-law |
April 1984 |
Attorney-at-law of Susumu Murakoshi Law Office |
March 1988 |
Attorney-at-law of Shin-Chiyoda Sogo Law Office (to present) |
May 2001 |
Appointed Chairman, Human Rights Protection Committee of Japan Federation of Bar Associations |
April 2008 |
Appointed Vice President, Japan Federation of Bar Associations Appointed Chairman, Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association |
April 2014 |
Appointed President, Japan Federation of Bar Associations |
May 2017 |
Appointed President of Japan Attorneys Political Association |
April 2019 |
Member (Chief investigator) of Compliance Team of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (current position) |
June 2020 |
Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |

- Name
- Michiko Ohtsuka
- Current position
- Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history | |
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April 1981 |
Joined SUMITOMO CORPORATION |
October 1986 |
Joined Asahi Shinwa Audit & Accounting Office (now KPMG AZSA LLC) |
August 1990 |
Registered as Certified Public Accountant |
May 2013 |
Certified Public Accountant of Ohtsuka Certified Public Accountant Office (to present) |
April 2014 |
Appointed Auditor (part-time) of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency |
April 2015 |
Appointed Auditor (part-time) of Japan National Tourism Organization |
June 2015 |
Appointed Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of FUJI KOSAN COMPANY, LTD. |
June 2016 |
Appointed Outside Director and Audit & Supervisory Committee Member of FUJI KOSAN COMPANY, LTD. |
June 2020 |
Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |