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Management structure overview
Board of directors
- The board of directors defines key management policies and oversees business execution.
- Two external directors have joined the board.
- A new audit and supervisory board has been established to enhance corporate governance.
- The role of auditors is reinforced to ensure effective oversight.
- Executive officers are appointed based on their business expertise and leadership capabilities, each responsible for a specific unit.
- They are delegated authority from the representative director to drive business execution.
- They are assigned a CXO role according to their area of responsibility.
Tatsuo Kawasaki
Tatsuo is chairman and founding partner of Unison Capital. Since founding Unison, he has managed investment portfolios across a wide range of businesses, including automobile, electronics, financial services, consumer goods and services, and business services. Prior to Unison, he led the IPO process for a US based fin-tech venture following professional experience at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Keio University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Hiroaki Kitano
Hiroaki is the chief technology fellow of Sony Group. He also serves as representative director and president of Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL). His career began at NEC in April 1984, where he worked in software engineering research. He joined Sony CSL as a researcher in August 1993 and became its representative director and president in July 2011. In February 2021, he was named a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
New management structure
Board of directors
- Shinpei Kato: Representative Director and Chief Executive Officer
- Satoshi Sakaguchi: Director and Chief Financial Officer
- Akimichi Degawa: Director and Chairman
- Tatsuo Kawasaki: External Director
- Hiroaki Kitano: External Director
- Shiro Sakazaki: Full-time external auditor
- Naoki Sato: External auditor
- Mizuki Takahara: Auditor
- Shinpei Kato: Chief Executive Officer
- Satoshi Sakaguchi: Chief Financial Officer
- Hironori Muraoka: Chief Human Resources Officer
- Naomitsu Tsugiiwa: Chief Information Officer
- Ko Miyoshi: Chief Operating Officer
- Masashi Shinkai: Chief Strategy Officer
- Yoshihito Takashima: Chief Technology Officer
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