As of June 22,2023
| April 1981 | Joined the Company |
| June 2004 | General Manager of Functional Ceramics Div. of Electronics Materials Business Group of the Company |
| April 2009 | Executive Officer, General Manager of Electronics Materials Div. of Electronics Materials Business Group of the Company |
| April 2011 | Senior Executive Officer of the Company |
| April 2013 | Managing Executive Officer, Head of Electronics & Innovative Products of the Company |
| June 2013 | Director and Managing Executive Officer of the Company |
| April 2015 | General Manager of Corporate Planning Dept. of the Company |
| April 2016 | Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of the Company |
| June 2016 | Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Koatsu Gas Kogyo Co., Ltd. (until June 2019) |
| April 2017 | Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company |
| April 2021 | Chairman and Representative Director of the Company |
| April 2023 | Chairman and Director of the Company (present) |
| April 1982 | Joined the Company |
| October 2006 | General Manager, Styrene Div. of the Company |
| June 2011 | General Manager, Corporate Planning Dept. of the Company |
| April 2013 | Executive Officer, Assistant to General Manager, Elastomers & Performance Plastics of the Company |
| April 2015 | General Manager, Elastomers & Performance Plastics of the Company |
| April 2017 | Managing Executive Officer of the Company |
| April 2019 | General Manager, Denka Value-Up Promotion Dept. of the Company |
| June 2019 | Director and Managing Executive Officer of the Company |
| April 2020 | Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of the Company |
| April 2021 | Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company (present) |
| April 1983 | Joined the Company |
| October 2013 | Deputy General Manager, Chiba Plant of the Company |
| April 2015 | General Manager, Ofuna Plant of the Company |
| April 2017 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Omuta Plant of the Company |
| April 2019 | President of Denka Performance Elastomer LLC |
| April 2021 | Managing Executive Officer of the Company |
| June 2021 | Director and Managing Executive Officer of the Company |
| April 2023 | Representative Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of the Company (present) |
| April 1985 | Joined the Company |
| April 2009 | General Manager, Functional Films Dept., Electronics Materials Div. of Electronics Materials Business Group of the Company |
| October 2011 | General Manager, Advanced Fillers Dept., Electronics Materials Business Group of the Company |
| October 2013 | General Manager, Advanced Specialty Materials Dept., Electronics & Innovative Products of the Company |
| April 2017 | Assistant General Manager, Electronics & Innovative Products of the Company |
| April 2019 | Executive Officer and General Manager, Electronics & Innovative Products of the Company |
| April 2023 | Managing Executive Officer of the Company |
| June 2023 | Director and Managing Executive Officer of the Company (present) |
| April 1979 | Joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited |
| April 2004 | General Manager, Business Division No.7 of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited |
| March 2006 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Corporate Banking Division No.15 of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited |
| April 2007 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Securities Division of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited |
| April 2008 | Managing Executive Officer in charge of Corporate Banking of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited |
| April 2010 | Managing Executive Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Credit Officer of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited |
| April 2011 | Managing Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Banking Unit of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited |
| April 2012 | Managing Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Banking Unit (Large Corporations) and Corporate Banking Unit of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited (until March 2013) |
| April 2013 | Deputy President and Deputy President-Executive Officer, Head of Investment Banking Division, Head of Public & Financial Institutions Group of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (until March 2014) |
| April 2014 | Chairman of Shinko Asset Management Co., Ltd. (until November 2015) |
| November 2015 | President & CEO of Fund Corporation for the Overseas Development of Japan’s ICT and Postal Services Inc. (until June 2021) |
| June 2021 | Outside Director of the Company (present) |
| April 1984 | Joined the Company |
| April 2008 | General Manager, Business Planning Dept., Resin Process Div., Resin Process Business Group of the Company |
| April 2010 | General Manager, Purchasing Dept. of the Company |
| April 2014 | Deputy General Manager, Chiba Plant of the Company |
| July 2017 | General Manager, Internal Auditing Dept. of the Company |
| April 2021 | General Manager, Internal Control Dept. of the Company |
| April 2023 | Assigned to the Audit Committee of the Company |
| June 2023 | Director (Full-time Audit Committee Member) (present) |
| July 1983 | Registered as Certified Public Accountant |
| July 1989 | Partner, U.S. Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P (current PricewaterhouseCoopers) (until June 1998) |
| June 1994 | Representative employee of Chuo Audit Corporation (until July 2005) |
| July 1998 | Senior Managing Partner for North America, New York Head Office, U.S. PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. (until June 2005) |
| July 2005 | Management Board Member for International Business of Tokyo Office of ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers (until June 2007) |
| July 2007 | Chief Executive of The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA) (until July 2013) |
| July 2013 | Council Member of JICPA (until July 2016) |
| June 2014 | Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Panasonic Corporation (until June 2022) |
| July 2014 | Representative Director of Global Professional Partners (present) |
| August 2014 | Outside Corporate Auditor of Weathernews Inc. (until August 2018) |
| March 2015 | Outside Director of Asatsu-DK Inc. (until December 2018) |
| June 2015 | Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company |
| June 2015 | Outside Director of TACHI-S CO., LTD. (present) |
| July 2015 | Outside Director of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (until September 2019) |
| January 2018 | Outside Director of ThreePro Group Inc. (current GiG Works Inc.) (present) |
| June 2019 | Outside Director (Audit Committee Member) of the Company (present) |
| April 1974 | Joined Mitsui & Co., Ltd. |
| April 1999 | President of Mitsui & Co., Benelux S.A./N.V. |
| April 2004 | Vice President of Synthetic Resin & Inorganic Chemical Products Business Unit of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. |
| April 2007 | Executive Officer of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (until March 2010), President of Mitsui & Co. (Thailand) Ltd. |
| April 2009 | Representative Director and President of Mitsui Bussan Plastic Trade Co., Ltd. (present Mitsui & Co. Plastics Ltd.) (until June 2014) |
| June 2014 | Counselor of Mitsui & Co. Plastics Ltd. (until June 2015) |
| June 2015 | Outside Director of the Company |
| June 2021 | Outside Director (Audit Committee Member) of the Company (present) |
| April 2000 | Registered as a lawyer (Tokyo Bar Association) |
| April 2013 | Executive Governor of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (until March 2014) |
| October 2015 | Senior Leader, Management Support Division of MOS FOOD SERVICES, INC. |
| April 2018 | Risk Management & Compliance Group Leader of MOS FOOD SERVICES, INC. (until March 2019) |
| April 2019 | General Manager, Risk Management & Compliance Office of MOS FOOD SERVICES, INC. (until September 2020) |
| September 2020 | Intellectual Property and Legal Div., General Affairs H.Q. of NITTO KOHKI CO., LTD. |
| April 2021 | General Manager, Intellectual Property and Legal Div., General Affairs H.Q., and compliance supervisor of NITTO KOHKI CO., LTD. (present) |
| June 2021 | Outside Director (Audit Committee Member) of the Company (present) |
| Attributes | Skills | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent Outside | Age | Number of years in office | Gender | Corporate Managing / Corporate Planning | Human Resources Value Creation | Global Business | Finance Strategy / Accounting | Legal / Compliance | Sustainability / ESG | Business Value Creation and Marketing | R&D / Intellectual Property | Technology / Manufacturing | DX | |||||
| E(Environment) | S(Social) | G(Governance) | ||||||||||||||||
| Chairman and Director | Manabu Yamamoto | 67 | 10 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||||||
| Representative Director | Toshio Imai | President and Chief Executive Officer | 64 | 4 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||
| Representative Director | Kazuo Takahashi | Senior Managing Executive Officer | 63 | 2 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||||
| Director | Ikuo Ishida | Managing Executive Officer | 61 | 0 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
| Director | Yoshiyuki Fukuda | ○ | 66 | 2 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
| Director | Mizuhiro Uchida | Full-time Audit Committee Member | 61 | 0 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||||||
| Director | Toshio Kinoshita | Audit Committee Member | ○ | 74 | 8 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
| Director | Akio Yamamoto | Audit Committee Member | ○ | 71 | 8 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |||||||||
| Director | Miyuki Matoba | Audit Committee Member | ○ | 49 | 2 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||
| Nobuyuki Yoshino | Managing Executive Officer | 65 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||||
| Kazuya Tokumoto | Managing Executive Officer | 64 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||
| Hideki Takahashi | Managing Executive Officer | 63 | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||||||||||||
| Rimiru Hayashida | Managing Executive Officer | 61 | ○ | ○ |
The skills considered necessary for the Company’s Board of Directors to make important decisions and supervise management under the new vision to reach the goals of the Company's eight-year management plan through fiscal 2030, and to promote ESG management through the priority management materiality issues are as follows.
| Skills | Reason for the selection of skills | |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate Management/Corporate Planning | Directors are needed who have extensive management experience and achievements to establish and review management plans aimed at realizing the Denka’s Vision and supervise the execution of duties to achieve these plans. | |
| Human Resources Value Creation | Directors are needed who have extensive knowledge and experience related to human resources value creation in order to realize human resource investment and system reforms, aiming to become a company where each and every employee can gain experience self-realization and personal growth. | |
| Global Business | Directors are needed who have extensive experience in global business to fulfill our Purpose to “making the world a better place as specialists in chemistry” with an awareness of global megatrends. | |
| Financial Strategy/Accounting | Directors are needed who have extensive knowledge and experience in the financial strategy and the accounting field not only to ensure the accurate disclosure of financial information, but also to drive selection and concentration of businesses, pursue optimal capital structure and improve profitability and efficiency. | |
| Legal/Compliance | Directors are needed who have robust knowledge and experience in the legal and compliance fields to ensure fair and trustworthy corporate activities appropriately responding to increasingly complex legal systems and regulations in Japan and abroad. | |
| Sustainability/ESG | E (Environment) | Directors with extensive knowledge and experience in E (Environment) are needed to fulfill corporate social responsibility working on the precondition for continuation of business, “Achievement of carbon neutrality,” “Sustainable cities and fulfilling daily lives,” and “Environmental conservation and minimization of environmental footprint.” |
| S (Society) | Directors with solid knowledge and experience in S (Society) are needed to fulfill corporate social responsibility through the provision of safe and high-quality products, respect for human rights, and participation in the effort to build a better community. | |
| G (Governance) | Directors with solid knowledge and experience in G (Governance) are needed to fulfill corporate social responsibility building a more advanced and effective corporate governance system that ensures transparency and fairness based on high ethical standards. | |
| Business Value Creation and Marketing |
Directors are needed who have market insight based on a broad perspective, as well as extensive business experience to ensure that all the three focus areas, ICT & Energy, Healthcare, and Sustainable Living, will be fully made up of “three-star businesses” that incorporate the three elements of specialty, megatrends, and sustainability, while promoting the transformation of business portfolio, considering also selling or exiting a business that is difficult to convert to a “three-star business. | |
| R&D/Intellectual Property | Directors are needed who have a track record of promotion of innovation, as well as deep knowledge in science and technology and a wealth of experience in proprietary technologies and intellectual property, in order to create business value in the three focus areas of ICT & Energy, Healthcare, and Sustainable Living. | |
| Technology/Manufacturing | Directors are needed who are deeply familiar with technology, and who have extensive practical experience and robust insight into manufacturing in order to create management values through process innovation to improve productivity, ensure trustworthiness in manufacturing, and establish a safe work environment. | |
| DX | Directors are needed with a profound knowledge and extensive experience related to digital technologies and data utilization, as well as the ability to understand and analyze the nature of the Group’s business, and use this insight to transform it, in order to promote transformation of business model and organization through process innovation. | |
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