Director Profiles

(As of July 25, 2024)

Board of Directors

Yasunori Ogawa
Name
Yasunori Ogawa
Current position
President and Representative Director
Work history
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)
Eiichi Abe
Name
Eiichi Abe
Current position
Representative Director, Executive Officer
Chief Human Resources Officer
General Administrative Manager, Human Capital & Well-Being Management Division
Work history
April
1985
Joined Suwa Seikosha Co., Ltd (now Seiko Epson Corporation)
December
2003
Appointed Director, PT. Indonesia Epson Industry
June
2004
Appointed Vice President, PT. Indonesia Epson Industry
April
2009
Appointed General Manager, Human Resources Department
June
2012
Appointed President, Epson Insurance Center
June
2014
Appointed President, PT. Indonesia Epson Industry
June
2017
Appointed Executive Officer (current position)
April
2022
Appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (current position)
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Human Resources Division
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Health Management Office
October
2022
Appointed General Manager, Executive Secretarial Office
April
2023
Appointed General Administrative Manager,
Human Capital & Well-Being Management Division (current position)
June
2024
Appointed Representative Director (current position)
Junkichi Yoshida
Name
Junkichi Yoshida
Current position
Director, Executive Officer
Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division
Work history
April
1988
Joined Seiko Epson Corporation
April
2012
Appointed General Manager, Printer Strategic Planning Department
April
2017
Appointed General Manager, P Strategic Planning Department
April
2019
Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, DX Division
June
2020
Appointed Executive Officer (Current position)
October
2020
Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer,
Printing Solutions Operations Division
April
2021
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division
(current position)
June
2024
Appointed Director (current position)
Yasunori Yoshino
Name
Yasunori Yoshino
Current position
Director, Executive Officer
General Administrative Manager, Corporate Strategy Division
Chief Operating Officer, Manufacturing Solutions Operations Division
Work history
April
2001
Joined Seiko Epson Corporation
April
2016
Appointed General Manager,
VP Production Control & Procurement Department
April
2020
Appointed Chief Operating Officer,
Visual Products Operations Division
April
2021
Appointed Executive Officer (Current Posision)
April
2023
Appointed General Manager,
VP Production Control & Procurement Department
October
2023
Appointed General Administrative Manager,
Corporate Strategy Division (current position)
Appointed General Manager, VP Business Development Department
Appointed General Manager, VP Business Management Department
April
2024
Appointed Chief Operating Officer,
Manufacturing Solutions Operations Division (current position)
June
2024
Appointed Director (current position)
Tadashi Shimamoto
Name
Tadashi Shimamoto
Current position
Outside Director
Work history
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.
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
(now PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan LLC) (current position)
June
2023
Appointed Outside Director, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position)
Masaki Yamauchi
Name
Masaki Yamauchi
Current position
Outside Director
Work history
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)
Kahori Miyake
Name
Kahori Miyake
Current position
Outside Director
Work history
July
1991
Joined JUSCO Co., Ltd. (now AEON Co., Ltd.)
April
2008
Appointed President and Representative Director,
Claire's Nippon Co., Ltd.
June
2013
Appointed Director, Research Institute for Quality Living Co.,Ltd
March
2014
Appointed Executive Officer, AEON RETAIL Co., Ltd.
Appointed General Manager, Customer Service Department,
AEON RETAIL Co., Ltd.
March
2017
Appointed Executive Officer, CSR & Communication Chief Officer,
AEON Co., Ltd.
April
2019
Appointed Co-Chair, Japan Climate Leaders' Partnership
(current position)
March
2021
Appointed Chief Officer, CSR, AEON Co., Ltd.
April
2022
Appointed Director, ESG Planning and Promotion Department,
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (current position)
April
2023
Appointed Fellow Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited
June
2023
Appointed Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Members Co., Ltd. (current position)
June
2024
Appointed Outside Director, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position)
Masayuki Kawana
Name
Masayuki Kawana
Current position
Director, Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history
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)
Susumu Murakoshi
Name
Susumu Murakoshi
Current position
Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history
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)
Michiko Ohtsuka
Name
Michiko Ohtsuka
Current position
Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history
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)
Akira Marumoto
Name
Akira Marumoto
Current position
Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history
June
1999
Appointed Director, Mazda Motor Corporation
Appointed Assistant to Officer in charge of Quality Assurance,
Mazda Motor Corporation
Appointed General Manager, Product Quality Division,
Mazda Motor Corporation
June
2002
Appointed Executive Officer, in charge of European R&D and Production Operations, Mazda Motor Corporation
April
2006
Appointed Managing Executive Officer, in charge of Product Planning and Program Management, Mazda Motor Corporation
April
2010
Appointed Senior Managing Executive Officer, in charge of Corporate Planning, Product Strategy and Product Profit Control, Mazda Motor Corporation
Appointed Assistant to Officer in charge of Cost Innovation, Mazda Motor Corporation
June
2010
Appointed Director, Mazda Motor Corporation
June
2013
Appointed Representative Director, Executive Vice President, Mazda Motor Corporation
Appointed Assistant to President, Mazda Motor Corporation
Appointed Oversight of Operations in the Americas and Corporate Planning Domain, Mazda Motor Corporation
June
2018
Appointed Representative Director, President and CEO, Mazda Motor Corporation
June
2023
Appointed Senior Advisor, Mazda Motor Corporation
(current position)
June
2024
Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member,
Seiko Epson Corporation (current position)

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