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Board of Directors

Member of the Board

Representative Director President & CEO (September 28, 1958)
Message From the President
Shinichi Ata 
Biography
January 1998
Managing Director, Microsoft Co., Ltd. (currently Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.)
May 2000
President and Representative Director, the company
August 2003
Managing Director, Softbank BB Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
June 2005
Representative Director, President and CEO, Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd (currently Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.) 
April 2006
Senior Managing Executive Officer, Information Systems and CS Headquarters, Vodafone K.K. (currently SoftBank Corp.) 
June 2006
Director, Japan Telecom Co., Ltd. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
June 2007
Senior Managing Executive Officer and CISO Head of Information Systems and CS, SoftBank Telecom Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.) 
June 2007
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer and CISO Information Systems/CS Supervisor, Softbank BB Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.) 
June 2010
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer and CISO Information Systems/CS Supervisor, SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.) 
April 2012
CEO and Executive Officer, the Company (current position)
June 2012
Representative Director and President, the Company (current position)
June 2012
Chairman of the Board,  Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.
June 2013
Director, Fontworks Inc. (to present)
August 2014
Director, Miracle Linux Corporation (currently Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.)
July 2015
Director, ASORA Tech Corp. (current position)
June 2016
President and Representative Director, Fontworks, Inc.
October 2017
President and Representative Director, Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.
April 2018
Chairman, the Company
Member of the Board CSO Mitsuhiro Sato  (September 16, 1962)
Biography
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)
April 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)
Biography
April 1989
Joined Kao Corporation
July 1994
Joined RYOBI LIMITED
July 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)
Biography
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.
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. 
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.
April 2021
Executive Vice President, Deputy Head of Corporate Business SoftBank Corp.
June 2023
Executive Vice President, Enterprise Business Unit, SoftBank Corp. (to present)
June 2023
Director, the Company (to present)
July 2023
Director, Treasure Data, Inc. (to present)
Director, Generative AX Corp. (to present)
April 2024
Executive Vice President and Deputy Head of Corporate Affairs SoftBank Corp. (to present)
June 2024
Appointed as director of SB C&S Co., Ltd. (to present)
Member of the Board Keiichi Makizono (March 26, 1968)
Biography
April 1990
Joined S&I Co., Ltd.
January 1999
Joined Cisco Systems G.K.   (currently Cisco Systems)
January 2002
Joined SoftBank Corp. (currently SoftBank Group Corp.)
June 2003
Director, BBIX, Inc.
December 2004
Vice President,  SoftBank Corp.
February 2007
Board Director, BB Backbone Corp.
June 2013
Executive Vice President, SoftBank Corp.
July 2013
Executive Officer, Wireless City Planning Co., Ltd. 
November 2014
Board Director, Wireless City Planning Inc.
President and CEO, BBIX, Inc.
Director, BBIX SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. 
Director, BBIX HONG KONG PTE. LTD. 
October 2016
Director, SB Innoventure Corp.
April 2018
Director, LINE Mobile Corporation
June 2018
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer,  SoftBank Corp.
October 2018
CEO, BBIX USA, Inc.
Managing Cirector, BBIX Europe B.V. 
March 2020
Director, Cinarra Systems, Inc. (to present)
July 2021
Director, BBIX Inc. (to present)
June 2023
Executive Vice President&Chief Information Officer, SoftBank Corp. (to present)
July 2023
Board Director, GenerativeAX Corp.
July 2024
Board Director, Chief Information Officer & Chief Information Security Officer, Gen-AX Corp. (to present)
August 2024
Board Diretor & Chief Operating Officer, Wireless City Planning Inc.  (to present)
October 2024
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)
Member of the Board Makoto Noda  (October 26, 1970)
Biography
April 1993
Joined Sumitomo Corporation
October 1999
Joined Digital Club Co., Ltd. (currently a SoftBank affiliate)
July 2002
Softbank BB Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
June 2013
Vice President, Head of Mobile Solutions Div. SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.) 
January 2015
Director, RF Optimization PJ Engineering, Sprint Corp. (USA)
April 2017
Vice President, Head of Mobile Network Div, SoftBank Corp.
April 2017
Vice President, Head of Mobile Network Div, Wireless City Planning Corp.
June 2017
Director, Wireless City Planning Corp.
July 2018
President & CEO, ALES Corp. (to present)
April 2020
Vice President, Head of 5G & IoT Solution Div, SoftBank Corp.
July 2021
Vice President, Head of Engineering, Enterprise Business Unit,
June 2022
Director, IDC Frontier Inc. (to present)
June 2023
Senior Vice President, Head of Engineering, Enterprise Business Unit, SoftBank Corp.  (to present)
September 2023
Director, AXSEED,Inc. (to present)
October 2024
Member of the Board, the Company (to present)

(As of October 1, 2024)

*The official English title of the position is as follows.
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CSO: Chief Strategy Officer
CFO: Chief Financial Officer

Corporate Auditor

Corporate Auditor Mitsumasa Ueno (November 9, 1952)
Biography
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.)
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 and Audit and Supervisory Committee Member FUJITSU BROAD SOLUTION&CONSULTING Inc. (currently Fujitsu Ltd.)
June 2020
Audit & Supervisory Board Member, ARUHI Corporation (to present)
Corporate Auditor Takashi Naito  (May 30, 1964)
Biography
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.)
June 2016
Audit & Supervisory Board, SB Players Corp. (to present)
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)
May 2024
Assistant to the CFO and Executive Accounting Advisor, Finance and Accounting Division, SoftBank Corp. (current position)

(As of October 1, 2024)

Vice President

CEO 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 CDO & CISO Kengo Kanazawa 
Vice President CMO Ikuma Uehara 

(As of October 1, 2024)

*The official English title of the position is as follows.
CIO: Chief Information Officer
CCO: Chief Compliance Officer
CDO: Chief DX Officer
CISO: Chief Information Security Officer
CMO: Chief Marketing Officer