List of Executives
Director
| Representative Director | Makoto Hayama President and CEO |
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| Director | Seiji Ishida Managing Executive Officer, Head of Sales Division |
| Director | Jun Yoshihara Executive Officer, Head of Business Management Division |
| Director | Junichi Shibuya Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of Sales Division |
| Director (part-time) | Kazutoshi Ono |
| Director (part-time) | Yoshimasa Nagase * |
| Director (part-time) | Mariko Magnan * |
| Director (part-time) | Haruhi Kuroda * |
- Outside Director
Auditors
| Auditors | Kyosuke Togano |
|---|---|
| Auditor (part-time) | Norihisa Ogawa * |
| Auditor (part-time) | Takahiro Kobayashi * |
| Auditor (part-time) | Rie Mizukami * |
- Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Executive Officer
| Executive Officer | Saburo Arima General Manager of Development Division |
|---|---|
| Executive Officer | Masayuki Yamanishi Director of DI |
| Executive Officer | Hirohide Tanabe Head of Customer Success |
Reasons for Appointment of Outside Directors and Attendance
| Yoshimasa Nagase | He has served as Representative Director at Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd. and Melco Holdings Inc. (currently Buffalo Inc.), and has been involved in corporate management for many years, and has extensive knowledge and experience in the financial industry, compliance, IR, M&A, and a wide range of corporate management. He has been appointed as an Outside Director because his knowledge and experience will contribute to improving the corporate value of the Company and are expected to provide timely and appropriate advice in the decision-making of the Board of Directors. Attendance at Board of Directors meetings (fiscal year ending March 2025: number of meetings attended/number of meetings held): 14/14 |
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| Mariko Magnan | He has worked in product development and sales at a publishing company in France and in the financial industry in the United States, and through business activities in a global environment, he has established ideas such as diversity and inclusion, and he also has experience as a manager, having started his own business in 2016. His knowledge, experience, and diverse perspectives will contribute to improving the Company's sustainability management, and we expect him to provide timely and appropriate advice in decision-making at Board of Directors meetings from a position independent from the management team responsible for business execution.We have therefore designated him as an independent director because he is not likely to have a conflict of interest with general shareholders and other stakeholders and meets the requirements for an independent director. Attendance at Board of Directors meetings (fiscal year ending March 2025: number of meetings attended/number of meetings held): 18/18 |
| Haruhi Kuroda | As an attorney, Mr. Iwata has specialized knowledge in areas such as M&A, corporate restructuring, business succession, and support for establishing compliance systems. This will enable him to provide useful opinions from a legal perspective, thereby contributing to the enhancement of the Company's corporate value. He is also expected to provide timely and appropriate advice in the decision-making of the Board of Directors from a position independent from the management team responsible for business execution. In addition, he is unlikely to have a conflict of interest with general shareholders and other stakeholders, and he meets the requirements for an independent officer. Therefore, he has been designated as an independent officer. Attendance at Board of Directors meetings (fiscal year ending March 2025: number of meetings attended/number of meetings held): 18/18 |
Reasons for Appointment of Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Members and Their Attendance
| Norihisa Ogawa | Mr. Iwasaki serves as an attorney and director of the Software Information Center, a general incorporated foundation, and reflects the experience and insight he has cultivated over many years as an attorney, mainly in the field of intellectual property rights, in our audits, providing objective audit work from an independent and fair standpoint. We have designated him as an independent officer because he is able to utilize the experience and insight he has cultivated throughout his career in our audits, there is no risk of a conflict of interest with stakeholders, including general shareholders, and he meets the requirements for an independent officer. Attendance at Board of Directors meetings (fiscal year ending March 2025: number of meetings attended/number of meetings held): 18/18 Attendance at Audit & Supervisory Board meetings (fiscal year ending March 2025: number of meetings attended/number of meetings held): 14/14 |
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| Takahiro Kobayashi | After working for many years in business planning and marketing, mainly overseas, at Ricoh Co., Ltd., he has served as General Manager of the Business Support Department of the Accounting Headquarters at the same company, as well as a director or auditor at several other companies, and has a wealth of experience and wide-ranging insight. He has been designated as an independent director because he can utilize the experience and insight he has cultivated in global business development and corporate management in his career in our audits, there is no risk of a conflict of interest with stakeholders, including general shareholders, and he meets the requirements for an independent director. Attendance at Board of Directors meetings (fiscal year ending March 2025: number of meetings attended/number of meetings held): 18/18 Attendance at Audit & Supervisory Board meetings (fiscal year ending March 2025: number of meetings attended/number of meetings held): 14/14 |
| Rie Mizukami | As a certified public accountant and tax accountant, Mr. Iwata has extensive experience and specialized knowledge in international tax matters and the management of overseas subsidiaries, etc. We expect that he will reflect the experience and insight he has cultivated throughout his career in our audits from a position independent of management, and provide objective audit opinions from an independent and fair position. We also believe that there is no risk of a conflict of interest with general shareholders and other stakeholders, and that he meets the requirements for an independent officer, so we have designated him as an independent officer. *He was appointed as an Audit & Supervisory Board Member at the 56th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on June 17, 2025. |
