August 1987
Joined Microsoft Co., Ltd. (currently Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.)
January 1998
Managing Director, Microsoft Co., Ltd. (currently Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.)
May 2000
Representative Director, President, Microsoft Co., Ltd. (currently Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.)
August 2003
Joined Softbank BB Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.) Executive Director
April 2006
Executive Vice President; General Manager, Information System and CS Unit, Vodafone K.K. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
June 2006
Board Director, JAPAN TELECOM CO., LTD. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
June 2007
Senior Executive Vice President & CISO, Head of Information System and CS Unit, SoftBank Telecom Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
June 2007
Board Director, Senior Executive Vice President & CISO, Information System and CS Unit, SoftBank BB Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
June 2010
Board Director, Senior Executive Vice President & CISO, Information System and CS Unit, SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
January 2012
Joined the Company
April 2012
CEO & Executive Officer, the Company (to present)
June 2012
Representative Director, President, the Company (to present)
June 2013
Director, Fontworks Inc. (to present)
July 2015
Director, ASORA Tech Corp. (to present)
Member of the Board CSO
Mitsuhiro Sato (September16, 1962)
Career summary
April 1986
Joined Abe Software Corporation (currently ABEISM CORPORATION)
January 1991
Joined SoftBank Corp. (currently SoftBank Group Corp.)
August 1998
Joined the Company
December 2000
Vice President, the Company
October 2009
Vice President and General Manager, Web Business Service Department, the Company
June 2010
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
May 2012
Representative Director and President, M-SOLUTIONS, Inc.
June 2012
Vice President, CTO, CISO, and General Manager, Research &Business Development Promotion Division, the Company
June 2013
Director, Fontworks Inc. (to present)
March 2014
Director, Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.
October 2015
Executive Vice President, CSO, Head of Technology Unit, and General Manager, PM Partner Division, the Company
June 2016
Director, MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION (currently Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.)
December 2016
Representative Drector and President, Kan Corporation
April 2018
Senior Executive Vice President, CSO and Head of Technology Unit, the Company
April 2019
Vice President and Executive Officer and CSO, the Company
June 2019
Director, M-SOLUTIONS, Inc.
July 2020
Director, DENEN Co., Ltd. (to present)
April 2021
Director, I/O SYSTEM INTEGRATION CO., LTD.
June 2021
Director, Kan Corporation (to present)
June 2022
Senior Executive Vice President, CSO and Head of Business Unit, the Company (to present)
Member of the Board CFO
Masaaki Okazaki (November 29, 1965)
Career summary
April 1989
Joined Kao Corporation
July 1994
Joined RYOBI LIMITED
June 2002
Joined Mazda Motor Corporation
December 2003
Joined SoftBank BB Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
June 2004
General Manager, Accounting Department, Management Unit, SoftBank BB Corp.
April 2008
General Manager, Cost Management Department, Corporate Planning Division, Finance Unit, SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
April 2011
Deputy General Manager, Corporate Planning Division, Finance Unit, SoftBank Mobile Corp.
May 2013
General Manager, Corporate Management Division, SoftBank Mobile Corp.
April 2016
Joined NIDEC CORPORATION Executive Consultant, NIDEC CORPORATION Seconded to NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION (currently
NIDEC POWERTRAIN SYSTEMS CORPORATION) Senior Vice President, CFO and Executive General Manager, Administration Division, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
June 2016
Director, Senior Vice President, CFO and Executive General Manager, Administration Division, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION (currently NIDEC POWERTRAIN
SYSTEMS CORPORATION)
January 2017
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, , Automotive Motor & Electronic Control Business Unit, NIDEC CORPORATION
June 2018
Senior Vice President, Adviser to Chief Financial Officer, and in charge of managing Accounting Department and Finance Department, the said Company
November 2018
Senior Vice President and Deputy Executive General Manager, Appliance, Commercial & Industrial Motor Business Unit, NIDEC CORPORATION
March 2020
Chief Purchasing Officer and General Manager of Global Centralized Purchasing Division, NIDEC CORPORATION
August 2020
Joined MACNICA FUJI ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS, INC. (currently MACNICA HOLDINGS, INC.) General Manager, Financial Unit, MACNICA FUJI ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS, INC.
January 2021
Joined the Company Special Advisor to President, the Company
April 2021
Executive Vice President and CFO, the Company
June 2021
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
August 2021
Director, DENEN Co., Ltd. (to present)
August 2021
Director, Fontworks Inc. (to present)
April 2022
Executive Vice President, CFO and Head of Management Unit, the Company (to present)
June 2022
Director, REDEN Corp. (to present)
June 2022
Director, M-SOLUTIONS, Inc. (to present)
Member of the Board
Kunihiro Fujinaga (September 26, 1970)
Career summary
May 1994
Joined H.R. Osaka Inc. (currently Horizon Hotels, Inc.)
October 2000
Joined SOFTBANK Networks Inc. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
April 2006
Seconded to Japan Telecom Co, Ltd. (currently SoftBank Corp.) Head of Business Unit, Manager, EM Department 1, Engagement Management Division, Internet Data Business Group
May 2010
Head of Sales Unit, General Manager, 1st Sales Control Department, 2nd Enterprise Sales Division, Japan Telecom Co, Ltd.
May 2014
Head of Sales and Business Units, Deputy Senior Manager, 2nd Enterprise Sales Division, Japan Telecom Co, Ltd.
April 2015
Acting Head of 2nd Enterprise Sales Division, Enterprise Business Unit, SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently Softbank Corp.)
July 2015
Executive Officer, 2nd Enterprise Sales Division Head, Enterprise Business Unit, SoftBank Corp.
April 2016
Executive Officer, Head of Enterprise Business Strategy Division, Enterprise Business Unit, SoftBank Corp.
September 2016
Director, SBI FinTech Incubation Co., Ltd. (to present)
July 2018
Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Business Strategy Division, Enterprise Business Unit, SoftBank Corp.
July 2018
Director, INCUDATA Corp. (to present)
June 2019
Director, OfaaS Corp. (to present)
March 2020
Director, Cinarra Systems, Inc. (to present)
April 2020
Senior Vice President, Responsible for Business Strategy & Marketing, Enterprise Business Unit, SoftBank Corp.
June 2020
Director, Air Trust Corp. (to present)
April 2021
Senior Vice President, Deputy Head of Enterprise Business Unit, SoftBank Corp. (to present)
June 2023
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
External Member of the Board
Shigeo Suzuki (July 29, 1954)
Career summary
April 1979
Joined DX ANTENNA CO., LTD.
September 1990
Joined Kobe Steel, Ltd. New Business Category Division and Information Electronics Division
January 1994
Seconded to KOBELCO SYSTEMS CORPORATION Deputy General Manager, Network Business Group
January 2001
Joined SoftBank Commerce Corp. (currently SB C&S Corp.) Vice President, Ariba Business Department, SoftBank Commerce Corp.
January 2003
Transferred to SoftBank BB Corp. (currently SB C&S Corp.) Deputy Head of Distribution Business Unit
April 2005
Joined NextCom K.K. (currently MITSUI KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.) Head of Business Unit 6, NextCom K.K.
June 2006
Director, Executive Managing Officer & Executive Officer, Administration of Sales Unit, NextCom K.K.
April 2012
Director, Executive Managing Officer & Executive Officer, responsible for Business Unit, MITSUI KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
April 2015
Director, Executive Managing Officer & Executive Officer, responsible for Business Alliance Division, Major Account Business & Reals Estate Sector Sales Units, Financial Sector Sales Unit, Telecommunication & Industrial Sales Unit, and Advanced Communication Business Unit, and General Manager, Advanced Technology Center, MITSUI KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
June 2016
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
External Member of the Board
Yoshie Munakata (June 20, 1958)
Career summary
April 1981
Joined Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
December 1983
Joined Intel Japan K.K. (currently Intel K.K.)
February 1999
Manager, Communication Product Business Headquarters, Intel Japan K.K.
April 2001
Executive secretary in charge of corporate planning/government relation, Intel Japan K.K.
February 2004
Manager, Business Development Headquarters, Intel Japan K.K.
April 2009
Director and Executive Deputy President, Intel Japan K.K.
October 2016
Established B.Grove Inc. and became Representative Director (to present)
June 2017
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
June 2018
Outside Director, Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd.
November 2018
External Director and Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Uhuru Corporation
December 2018
Outside Director, Japan Sweden Care Institute Co., Ltd.
External Member of the Board
Yukari Tominaga (April 19, 1958)
Career summary
April 1981
Joined Hitachi Computer, Consultant Ltd. (currently Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.)
October 2010
Operating Officer and General Manager, Application Systems Department, Industrial and Retail Solutions Systems Business Department No.1, Industrial and Retail Solutions Systems Business Group, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
April 2011
Executive Officer and Deputy General Manager, Retail Solutions Business Division, Industrial and Retail Solutions Systems Business Group, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
April 2012
Executive Officer, and General Manager, Retail Solutions Business Division, Industrial and Retail Solutions Systems Business Group, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
April 2013
Executive Officer and General Manager, Financial Systems Business Division, Financial Systems Business Group, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
April 2014
Vice President and Executive Officer, Chief Officer, Financial Systems Business Group, and Fellow, Group Management Foundation Reinforcement Group, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
April 2015
Vice President and Executive Officer, Chief Officer, Social Innovation Promotion Group, and Deputy Chief Officer, Sales Operations, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
October 2015
Vice President and Executive Officer (in charge of Social Innovation System Business), Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
October 2016
Vice President and Executive Officer, and Chief Officer, Quality Assurance Group, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
April 2019
Assistant to President and Chief Diversity Officer, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
April 2020
Fellow, Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
June 2020
External Director, MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD. (to present)
June 2021
Outside Director, Yashima & Co., Ltd. (to present)
July 2021
Senior Advisor, the Company
June 2022
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
June 2022
Outside Director, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD. (to present)
External Member of the Board
Yuka Miyagawa (October 10, 1962)
Career summary
April 1985
Joined Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
November 2001
Seconded to Oki Network Technologies, Oki Electric Industry’s US subsidiary
April 2003
Manager, No. 3 Sales Division, e-Carriers Business Group, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
April 2005
Deputy Head of Telecommunications Carrier Solution Group, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
April 2008
Manager, Head of Sales & Marketing Administration Division, Carriers Systems Marketing & Sales Division, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
April 2014
Head of Carriers Systems Marketing & Sales Division, Marketing & Sales Group, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
April 2017
Executive Officer and Head of Marketing & Sales Division-2, Marketing & Sales Group, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
April 2020
Senior Vice President and Head of Business Collaboration Division, Components & Platforms Business Group, the said Company
April 2021
Director and Senior Vice President, OKI Crosstech Co., Ltd.
July 2021
Senior Advisor, the Company
June 2022
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
External Member of the Board
Madoka Sawa (May 10, 1969)
Career summary
April 1993
Joined The Dai-ichi Life Information Services Co., Ltd. (currently The Dai-ichi Life Information Systems Co., Ltd.)
September 1997
Joined Microsoft Company, Limited (currently Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.)
July 2011
Director, Microsoft Technology Center, Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.
March 2014
Director, Microsoft Technology Center and Manager, Cyber Crime Center Japan Satellite, Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.
July 2019
Executive General Manager, Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.
October 2019
CEO, ensow inc. (to present)
February 2021
Lumada Innovation Evangelist, Hitachi, Ltd. (to present)
March 2021
Advisor, DIGITAL SHIFT, Inc. (to present)
March 2021
Advisor, JAC Recruitment Co., Ltd. (to present)
September 2021
Advisor, KAJIMA CORPORATION (to present)
January 2022
Senior Advisor, the Company
February 2022
Advisor, UMU Technology Japan (to present)
April 2022
Full-time Faculty Member (Professor), Musashino University (to present)
June 2022
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
May 2023
Director, Association to Generalize Utilization of Generative AI (to present)
（As of June 19, 2023）
※The official name in English is as follows.
CEO： Chief Executive Officer
CSO： Chief Strategy Officer
CFO： Chief Financial Officer
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Chairman of Audit & Supervisory Board
Mitsumasa Ueno
Career summary
October 1978 Joined SHOWA AUDIT CORPORATION (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
January 1982 Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
August 1985 Seconded to Amsterdam office of KPMG
October 1989 Seconded to San Francisco office of Ernst & Young
May 2002 Representative Partner, Shin Nihon & Co. (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
October 2008 Executive Board Member, Ernst & Young SinNihon LLC
July 2009 Representative Director & COO, Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services Co., Ltd. (currently EY Strategy and Consulting Co., Ltd.)
June 2015 Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, the Company (to present)
Audit & Supervisory Board Member, FUJITSU BROAD SOLUTION&CONSULTING Inc. (currently Fujitsu Ltd.)
February 2016 Auditor, JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR
June 2016 Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee member, FUJITSU BROAD SOLUTION&CONSULTING Inc. (currently Fujitsu Ltd.)
October 1981 Joined Price Waterhouse & Co. in Japan（currently PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC）
August 1985 Registered as a Certified Public Accountant with the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants
September 1989 Audit Manager, Atlanta office of Price Waterhouse in the U.S.A. (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
July 1994 Partner, Price Waterhouse in the U.S.A. (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
October 1996 Japanese Business Leader, New York office of Price Waterhouse (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
March 1997 Registered to practice as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Georgia
September 1997 Registered to practice as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York
September 2006 Representative Partner & Director of Internal Control Business Support Department, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC)
July 2010 Representative Partner of Risk Management Compliance Office, Independence and Compliance, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC)
April 2013 Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University
June 2013 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, the Company (to present)
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Michiaki Nakano
Career summary
October 1982 Passed the National Bar Examination
April 1985 Registered as an Attorney (admitted to the Tokyo Bar Association) and associated with Chiyoda Kokusai Law Offices
May 1990 Received an LL.M. from Cornell Law School
August 1990 Associated with Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy（currently Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner)
April 1991 Associated with Arnall Golden & Gregory
December 1992 Associated with Okamoto Suzuki & Takamatsu Law Offices (later renamed to Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices)
January 1994 Partner, Okamoto Suzuki & Takamatsu Law Offices (later renamed to Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices, until June 2002)
July 2002 Partner, South Toranomon Law Offices (to present)
June 2014 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, the Company (to present)
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Takashi Naito
Career summary
April 1989 Joined International Telecom Japan Inc.
April 2005 Director of Business Planning Department, Finance Division, Japan Telecom Co. Ltd. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
October 2005 Director of Accounting Department, Finance Division, the said company
April 2007 Senior Director of Accounting Management Unit, Finance Division, the said company
April 2008 Senior Director of Accounting Management Unit, Finance Division & Senior Director of Internal Control Group, the said company
April 2009 Vice President, Deputy Head of Purchasing Division, SoftBank Mobile Corp. & SoftBnak BB Corp. & SoftBank Telecom Corp. (All of them are currently SoftBank Corp. The following are collectively referred to as "Three Telecommunication companies")
April 2010 Vice President, Head of Purchasing Division, Three Telecommunication companies
July 2010 Vice President, Head of Finance & Accounting Division, SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently SoftBnak Corp.)
August 2010 Trustee Representative, WILLCOM, Inc. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
July 2012 Vice President, Head of Finance & Accounting Division, SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently SoftBnak Corp.)
July 2013 Vice President & CFO & Deputy General Manager of Financial Unit, WILLCOM, Inc. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
April 2014 Assistant Director of Corporate Planning Department, Grobal Synergy Promotion Unit, Corporate Planning, SoftBank Corp. (currently SoftBank Group Corp.)
March 2018 Vice President, Head of Finance & Accounting Division, Finance Unit & General Manager of Listing Operations Promotion Department, Finance Unit, SoftBank Corp.
June 2018 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, the Company (to present)
July 2019 Vice President, Head of Finance & Accounting Division, Financial Unit, SoftBank Corp. (to present)
April 2021 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, A Holdings Corporation (to present)
(As of June 19, 2023)
Skill Matrix of Members of the Board and Audit & Supervisory Board Members
This table can be scrolled horizontally.
Name
Title
Corporate management
Sales / Marketing
Technology / DX
Finance / Accounting
Legal / Governance / Diversity
Shinichi Ata
(Representative Director and President)
●
●
●
Mitsuhiro Sato
（Member of the Board, Vice President, Executive Officer）
●
●
●
Masaaki Okazaki
（Member of the Board, Executive Vice President）
●
●
Kunihiro Fujinaga
(Member of the Board)
●
●
Shigeo Suzuki
(External Member of the Board)
●
●
Yoshie Munakata
(External Member of the Board)
●
●
Yukari Tominaga
(External Member of the Board)
●
●
Yuka Miyagawa
(External Member of the Board)
●
●
Madoka Sawa
(External Member of the Board)
●
●
Mitsumasa Ueno
Full-time External Audit & Supervisory Board Member
●
●
Haruhiko Hirose
(External Audit & Supervisory Board Member)
●
Michiaki Nakano
(External Audit & Supervisory Board Member)
●
Takashi Naito
(Audit & Supervisory Board Member)
●
●
(As of June 19, 2023)
Vice President
Chief Executive Officer
Shinichi Ata
Vice President Executive Officer CSO
Mitsuhiro Sato
Executive Vice President CFO
Masaaki Okazaki
Executive Vice President
Akira Kitamura
Executive Vice President CIO
Masaki Watanabe
Senior Vice President CCO
Seiichi Masaoka
Vice President
Makoto Aoki
Vice President
Takuya Miyazawa
Vice President CDO & CISO
Kengo Kanazawa
Vice President CMO
Ikuma Uehara
（As of Sep 1, 2023）
※The official name in English is as follows.
CSO：Chief Strategy Officer
CFO：Chief Financial Officer
CIO：Chief Information Officer
CCO：Chief Compliance Officer
CDO：Chief DX Officer
CISO：Chief Information Security Officer
CMO：Chief Marketing Officer
Shinichi Ata (September 28, 1958)
Mitsuhiro Sato (September16, 1962)
Masaaki Okazaki (November 29, 1965)
Kunihiro Fujinaga (September 26, 1970)
Shigeo Suzuki (July 29, 1954)
Yoshie Munakata (June 20, 1958)
Yukari Tominaga (April 19, 1958)
Yuka Miyagawa (October 10, 1962)
Madoka Sawa (May 10, 1969)
Shinichi Ata
Mitsuhiro Sato
Masaaki Okazaki
Akira Kitamura
Masaki Watanabe
Seiichi Masaoka
Makoto Aoki
Takuya Miyazawa
Kengo Kanazawa
Ikuma Uehara