Director Profiles
(As of April 1, 2025)
Board of Directors
- Name
- Yasunori Ogawa
- Current position
- Chairman and 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 Appointed Chief Executive Officer |
| April 2025 |
Appointed Chairman and Director (current position) |
- Name
- Junkichi Yoshida
- Current position
- President and Representative Director
Chief Executive Officer
| 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 |
| October 2020 |
Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Operations Division |
| April 2021 |
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division |
| June 2024 |
Appointed Director |
| April 2025 |
Appointed President and Representative Director (current position) Appointed Chief Executive Officer (current position) |
- 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) |
- Name
- Eiichi Abe
- Current position
- Director
| 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 |
| April 2022 |
Appointed Chief Human Resources Officer 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 |
| June 2024 |
Appointed Representative Director |
| April 2025 |
Appointed Director (current position) |
- 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) |
- 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) |
- 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 (current position) |
| 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) |
- 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) |
- 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, 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) |
| November 2021 |
Appointed President, Japan CSR Diffusion Association (now CSR Promotion Association) (current position) |
- 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), 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) |
- 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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