Leadership of DNP

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  • Chairman

    Yoshitoshi Kitajima

    • May 1963 Joined the Company
    • Jul. 1967 Director of the Company
    • Jul. 1970 Managing Director of the Company
    • Jan. 1972 Senior Managing Director of the Company
    • Aug. 1975 Director, Vice President of the Company
    • Dec. 1979 President of the Company
    • Jun. 2018 Chairman of the Company

  • President

    Yoshinari Kitajima

    • Apr. 1987 Joined The Fuji Bank Ltd.
    • Mar. 1995 Joined the Company
    • Jun. 2001 Director of the Company
    • Jun. 2003 Managing Director of the Company
    • Jun. 2005 Senior Managing Director of the Company
    • Jun. 2009 Executive Vice President of the Company
    • Jun. 2018 President of the Company

  • Senior Managing Director

    Kenji Miya

    • Apr. 1978 Joined the Company
    • Jul. 2003 General Manager of Personnel Dept. of the Company
    • Jun. 2010 Corporate Officer (Yakuin), General Manager of Personnel Dept. of the Company
    • Jun. 2018 Managing Director of the Company
    • Jun. 2020 Senior Managing Director, in charge of Personnel & Employee Relations Div., IR and Public Relations Div., Recruiting and Training Dept., Diversity
    • Promotion Dept. and Corporate Administration Dept., Chairman of BCM Promotion Committee of the Company

  • Senior Managing Director

    Masato Yamaguchi

    • Apr. 1975 Joined the Company
    • Dec. 1994 General Manager of R&D 1st Dept., General Production Research Center of the Company
    • Jun. 2008 Corporate Officer (Yakuin), Deputy General Manager of Display Components Operations of the Company
    • Jun. 2012 Senior Corporate Officer, General Manager of Fine Electronics Operations of the Company
    • Jun. 2017 Senior Executive Corporate Officer, in charge of Living Spaces Operations, Mobility Operations and High-Performance Materials Operations of the Company
    • Apr. 2021 Senior Executive Corporate Officer, in charge of R&D and Engineering Management segment, Lifestyle and Industrial Supplies segment and Electronics segment (General) of the Company
    • Jun. 2021 Senior Managing Director of the Company

  • Managing Director

    Satoru Inoue

    • Apr. 1978 Joined the Company
    • Oct. 2008 General Manager of Technology Development Center of the Company
    • Jun. 2013 Director, in charge of Technical & Engineering Div., Technology Development Center, Environment & Product Liability Dept. of the Company
    • Jun. 2015 Managing Director of the Company
    • Apr. 2021 Managing Director, in charge of R&D and Engineering Management Div. and Technology Development Center, Chairman of Sustainability Committee of the Company

  • Managing Director

    Hirofumi Hashimoto

    • Apr. 1981 Joined the Company
    • Jun. 2015 Corporate Officer (Yakuin), General Manager of Strategic Business Planning Dept. of the Company
    • Apr. 2016 Director of Maruzen CHI Holdings Co., Ltd.
    • Jun. 2018 Senior Corporate Officer, in charge of Strategic Business Planning & Development Div. of the Company Statutory Auditor of Nihon Unisys, Ltd. (current)
    • Jun. 2020 Managing Director, in charge of Strategic Business Planning & Development Div. and Value Creation & Promotion Div. of the Company

  • Managing Director

    Masafumi Kuroyanagi

    • Apr. 1983 Joined the Company
    • Apr. 2004 General Manager of Finance & Accounting 1st Dept., Finance & Accounting Division of the Company
    • Jun. 2010 President and Representative Director of DNP Total Process Warabi Co., Ltd.
    • Jun. 2015 Corporate Officer (Yakuin), in charge of Finance & Accounting Division of the Company
    • Apr. 2019 Senior Corporate Officer, in charge of Finance & Accounting Division of the Company
    • Jun. 2021 Managing Director of the Company

  • Director

    Minako Miyama

    • Apr. 2005 General Manager of VR Planning and Development Office, DB Division, C&I Operations of the Company
    • Jul. 2014 General Manager of Recruiting and Training Dept. of the Company
    • Jun. 2018 Corporate Officer, General Manager of Recruiting and Training Dept., and Diversity Promotion Dept. of the Company
    • Oct. 2019 Corporate Officer, in charge of Recruiting and Training Dept., and Diversity Promotion Dept. of the Company
    • Jun. 2021 Director of the Company

  • Director

    Tsukasa Miyajima
    (Outside Director)

    • Apr. 1990 Professor of Keio University, Faculty of Law
    • Apr. 2003 Registered as an attorney at law at the Daini Tokyo Bar Association (current)
    • Jun. 2014 Director of the Company
    • Apr. 2016 Emeritus Professor of Keio University Professor of Asahi University, Faculty of Law and Graduate School of Law (currently serving)

  • Director

    Ryuichi Tomizawa
    (Outside Director)

    • Apr. 1965 Joined Mitsubishi Kasei Kogyo Corporation
    • Jun. 2002 President of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    • Jun. 2004 Chairman of Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation
    • Oct. 2005 President of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation
    • Apr. 2007 Chairman of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation
    • Jun. 2011 Outside Director of Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
    • Jun. 2012 Senior Corporate Advisor of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation
    • Jun. 2019 Director of the Company

  • Director

    Kazuyuki Sasajima
    (Outside Director)

    • Apr. 1982 Joined Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. (Manufacturing Engineering Research Center)
    • Apr. 1989 Associate Professor of Saitama University, Faculty of Engineering
    • Dec. 1999 Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
    • Apr. 2016 Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Department of Systems and Control Engineering
    • Mar. 2019 Emeritus Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology
    • Jun. 2020 Director of the Company

  • Director

    Ikuo Morita
    (Outside Director)

    • Apr. 1975 Joined the Department of Pharmacology, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (TMIG) (current Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology (TMGHIG))
    • Apr. 2009 Trustee and vice-president at Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    • Apr. 2015 Emeritus Professor of Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    • Jun. 2021 Director or the Company
  • Standing Statutory Auditor

    Naoki Hoshino

    Toshio Sano

    Kazuhisa Morigayama
    (Outside Statutory Auditor)

  • Statutory Auditor

    Makoto Matsuura
    (Outside Statutory Auditor)

    Taeko Ishii
    (Outside Statutory Auditor)

  • Senior Executive Corporate Officers

    Sakae Hikita

    Motoharu Kitajima

    Ryuji Minemura

    Morihiro Muramoto

  • Senior Corporate Officers

    Toshiki Sugimoto

    Naohiko Sugimoto

    Kiyotaka Nakagawa

    Nobuyuki Asaba

    Mitsuru Tsuchiya

    Kazuhiko Sugita

    Yoshiki Numano

    Osamu Nakamura

    Toru Miyake

    Mitsuru Iida

  • Corporate Officers

    Ryota Chiba

    Kazuhisa Kobayashi

    Takahito Kanazawa

    Go Miyazaki

    Naohiro Nishizawa

    Kazuo Murakami

    Hiroyuki Matsumura

    Takuya Goto

    Minoru Nakanishi

    Hiroyuki Sone