Directors and Corporate Auditors
Brief personal history
Chairman
Yasutaka Kawamura
- Apr.1993
- Joined the Company
- Apr.2007
- Representative Director and President, Hanamaru, Inc.
- May2010
- Director, the Company
- Sep.2012
- Representative Director / President, the Company
- Sep.2014
- Representative Director and President, YOSHINOYA CO., LTD.
- May2025
- Chairman (to present)
President & CEO
Tetsuya Naruse
- Jun.1988
- Joined the Company
- Oct.2007
- Executive Officer, the Company and Representative Director, President, SENKICHI CO., LTD.
- Jan.2012
- Managing Director, YOSHINOYA CO., LTD.
- Sep.2012
- Representative Director and President, Hanamaru, Inc.
- May2014
- Director, the Company
- Jan.2018
- Chairman and CEO, ASIA YOSHINOYA INTERNATIONAL SDN. BHD. (to present)
- Jan.2021
- Chairman, YOSHINOYA China Holdings Co., Ltd. (to present)
- May2025
- President & CEO (to present)
Executive Vice President & CFO
Norihiro Ozawa
- Apr.1992
- Joined OBAYASHI CORPORATION
- May2005
- Joined Seiyo Food Systems, Inc. (currently Compass Group Japan Inc.)
- Oct.2017
- Chief Executive Officer and Group CEO, Seiyo Food-Compass Group, Inc.
- Sep.2019
- Executive Officer, General Manager, Group Planning Office, the Company
- May2020
- Managing Director, the Company
- May2025
- Executive Vice President & CFO (to present)
Director
Yoshihiro Maeda
- Nov.2001
- Joined Hanamaru, Inc.
- Jan.2012
- Managing Director, Hanamaru, Inc.
Chairman, Hanamaru Food Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. - Nov.2014
- Executive Officer, in charge of Special Assignments (overseas posting), the Company
- Sep.2021
- Executive Officer, the Company and Managing Director, Hanamaru, Inc.
- Mar.2022
- Executive Officer, the Company and Representative Director and President, Hanamaru, Inc.
- May2024
- Director, the Company (to present)
Outside Director
Daisaku Fujikawa
- Apr.1984
- Joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited
- Jul.2000
- Joined UBS Warburg Securities (Japan) Limited (currently UBS Securities Japan Co., Ltd.)
- Mar.2006
- Joined Nikko Citigroup Global Limited
- Oct.2009
- Joined Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc.
- Feb.2019
- Executive Vice President and Head of Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory of Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc.
- May2022
- Director, the Company (to present)
Outside Director
Nobuko Sowa
- Apr.1985
- Joined IBM Japan, Ltd.
- Jan.2012
- Associate Director, in charge of Financial Application Development, Global Business Service, IBM Japan, Ltd.
- Mar.2014
- General Manager, IBM Japan Services Company, Ltd.
- Jan.2017
- In charge of Financial Strategy Projects, Global Business Service, IBM Japan, Ltd.
- Jun.2017
- Visiting professor, Osaka University
- Oct.2018
- Director, in charge of Insurance/Postal Group Services, Global Business Service, IBM Japan, Ltd.
- Apr.2022
- Senior Delivery Executive, IBM Consulting, IBM Japan, Ltd.
- May2023
- Director, the Company (to present)
Full-time Corporate Auditor
Kaoru Tomiya
- Apr.1993
- Joined the Company
- Mar.2015
- Executive Officer, General Manager, the Group Legal Affairs Department, the Company
- May2019
- Executive Officer, the Company and Representative Director, President, Withlink Holdings Co., Ltd. (currently With Link Co. Ltd. )
- May2021
- Executive Officer, the Company and Director, Chairperson, Withlink Holdings Co., Ltd.
- May2022
- Corporate Auditor, the Company (to present)
Outside Corporate Auditor
Osamu Ohashi
- Apr.1999
- Registered as certified public accountant, Ohashi Certified Public Accountants
- Sep.2000
- Representative partner, Dia Auditing Firm
- Nov.2004
- Registered as a licensed tax accountant
- May2005
- Representative partner, ReEx Accounting Firm (to present)
- May2011
- Corporate Auditor, the Company (to present)
Outside Corporate Auditor
Hitoshi Yokokura
- Apr.1992
- Joined Asahi Shinwa & Co. (currently KPMG AZSA LLC)
- Mar.1995
- Registered as certified public accountant
- Jan.2002
- Established Yokokura CPA Office
- Feb.2007
- Registered as attorney
Joined Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa (currently Anderson Mori & Tomotsune) - Apr.2014
- Partner, Waseda Legal Commons, LPC (to present)
- Jul.2017
- Auditor, Minori Audit Corporation (to August 2022)
- Jun.2020
- Outside Director, Credit Saison Co., Ltd. (to present)
- Jul.2021
- Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, ITO EN, LTD. (to present)
- May2023
- Corporate Auditor, the Company (to present)
Skills matrix
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* Outside Directors and Outside Corporate Auditors (as of May 27, 2025)
The Board of Directors, which governs and supervises the Group as a holding company, consists of members with diverse perspectives, profound experience, and advanced skills that facilitate the development of sound, highly transparent corporate governance and internal controls, enabling the Board to govern the Group appropriately. The Company believes that the Board of Directors as a whole is equipped with the necessary skills. We have created the following skills matrix with
marking the particular skills and experience of each director and corporate auditor based on their individual knowledge, experience, and capabilities. This list is not an exclusive representation of each person's knowledge, experience, and capabilities.