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Management Team

Director

Masataka Ushio

Chairman, Representative Director

Number of shares of the Company held: 19,000 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (17/17)
Significant concurrent positions: None

Career summary
April 1975 Joined Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corporation
June 2003 Full-time Corporate Auditor of E-net Co., Ltd.
April 2004 Joined the Company, General Manager of Planning Headquarters
June 2004 Executive Officer, General Manager of Marketing Department
June 2005 Director, Managing Executive Officer
April 2006 Director, Executive Officer, General Manager of Sales Headquarters
April 2007 Director, Executive Officer in charge of Sales
April 2008 Director, Executive Officer in charge of Planning and General Affairs
June 2008 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Planning and General Affairs
June 2012 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Planning and Sales
Director, Senior Managing Officer in charge of Planning and Sales
June 2013 Director, Senior Managing Officer in charge of Planning and Sales
June 2023 Chairman, Representative Director (to present)
Takanobu Yazaki

President, Representative Director Chief Executive Officer

Number of shares of the Company held: 9,700 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (17/17)
Significant concurrent positions: None

Career summary
September 1985 Joined the Company
June 2005 President, Ichikawa Europe GmbH
June 2012 General Manager of Global Sales, the Company; President, Ichikawa North America Corp.; CEO, Ichikawa China Co., LTD.
April 2014 General Manager of Global Sales, the Company; CEO, Ichikawa China Co., LTD.
June 2014 Executive Officer, General Manager of Global Sales, the Company; CEO, Ichikawa China Co., LTD.
April 2015 Executive Officer, in charge of Sales (adjunct) and General Manager of Global Sales, the Company; CEO, Ichikawa China Co., LTD.
April 2016 Executive Officer, in charge of Sales and General Manager of Global Sales, the Company
June 2016 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Sales and General Manager of Global Sales
April 2017 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Sales
April 2018 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Sales and General Manager of Global Management
April 2019 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Sales
January 2020 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Global Operations
June 2021 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Global Operations and Ichikawa Techno Fabrics Co., Ltd.
June 2023 President, Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer (to present)
Tomohiro Mochizuki

Director

Number of shares of the Company held: 10,000 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (13/13)
Note: After his appointment on June 28, 2023
Significant concurrent positions: None

Career summary
April 1984 Joined the Company
June 2012 General Manager of Business Planning
October 2012 General Manager of Business Planning, General Manager of Internal Audit Office
April 2013 General Manager of Business Planning
June 2014 Executive Officer, General Manager of Business Planning
April 2016 Executive Officer in charge of General Affairs (adjunct) and Business Planning
June 2016 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of General Affairs and Business Planning
June 2017 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of General Affairs and Business Planning
June 2020 Full-time Corporate Auditor
June 2023 Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer in charge of General Affairs, Business Planning Department and Quality Assurance Department and in charge of Ichikawa Techno Fabrics Co., Ltd. (to present)
Wataru Kobori

Director

Number of shares of the Company held: 4,500 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (17/17)
Significant concurrent positions: None

Career summary
April 1988 Joined the Company
April 2013 General Manager, Technology Department
April 2015 Head of Research and Development Laboratory and General Manager, Technology Department
June 2015 Executive Officer, Head of Research and Development Laboratory and General Manager, Technology Department
June 2016 Executive Officer, Head of Research and Development Laboratory
June 2017 Executive Officer in charge of Technology (adjunct), Head of Research and Development Laboratory, and in charge of Technology Management Department
April 2018 Executive Officer in charge of Technology and Asia Business Department (adjunct)
June 2018 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Technology and Asia Business Department (adjunct)
January 2020 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Japan Operations
June 2020 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Japan Operations and Technology
February 2021 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Japan Operations
June 2023 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Production (to present)
Hiroyuki Toyama

Director

Number of shares of the Company held: 2,600 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (17/17)
Significant concurrent positions: None

Career summary
April 1988 Joined The Chiba Bank, Ltd.
October 2015 General Manager, Regional Revitalization Division
April 2017 Joined the Company, General Manager, Personnel Department
April 2018 General Manager of Business Planning
June 2020 Executive Officer, General Manager of Business Planning and General Manager of General Affairs
April 2021 Executive Officer, General Manager of Business Planning and General Manager of Personnel Affairs
April 2022 Executive Officer, General Manager of Personnel Affairs
June 2022 Director, Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Personnel Affairs in charge of General Affairs, Business Planning Department and Quality Assurance Department
June 2023 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Sales
June 2024 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Sales and Overseas sales division (to present)
Masanori Morokawa

Director

Number of shares of the Company held: 8,300 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: -
Significant concurrent positions: None

Career summary
April 1986 Joined the Company
April 2013 General Manager, Production Technology Department
April 2015 Head of Kashiwa Mill
June 2015 Executive Officer, Head of Kashiwa Mill
April 2016 Executive Officer, General Manager, Production Technology Department
June 2017 Executive Officer in charge of Production (adjunct), Head of Iwama Mill and General Manager, Production Technology Department
April 2020 Executive Officer, General Manager, Production Technology Department
July 2020 Executive Officer, General Manager, Production Technology Department and Head of ICP Promotion Office
April 2022 Executive Officer, General Manager of Business Planning
June 2023 Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Business Planning
June 2024 Director, Managing Executive Officer in charge of Technology (to present)
Hiroki Nagaoka

Outside Director

Number of shares of the Company held: 2,500 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (17/17)
Significant concurrent positions: Corporate Advisor, Paramount Bed Holdings Co., Ltd.

Career summary
July 1977 Joined Sanwa Tokyo Marunouchi Office (currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)
March 1979 Registered as Certified Public Accountant
November 1990 Head of Shizuoka Office, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
June 2004 Member of Management Council (resigned in November 2015)
Assistant to Executive Manager of Tokyo Office and Head of Eastern Japan Regional Offices
June 2007 Assistant to Executive Manager of Tokyo Office and Head of Eastern Japan Regional Offices
October 2010 Head of Total Service Division
October 2013 In charge of Middle Market Promotion
July 2016 Corporate Advisor, Paramount Bed Holdings Co., Ltd. (to present)
July 2018 Director, the Company (to present)
Ryota Honjo

Outside Director

Number of shares of the Company held: 1,100 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (17/17)
Significant concurrent positions: None

Career summary
April 1972 Joined ITOCHU Corporation
April 2001 Chief Executive Representative for ASEAN & South-West Asia, ITOCHU Corporation; Chairman and Managing Director, ITOCHU Hong Kong Ltd.
June 2002 Executive Officer, ITOCHU Corporation
June 2004 President and Representative Director, ITOCHU Management Consulting Co., Ltd.
June 2005 President and Representative Director, JAPAN FOODS CO., LTD.
June 2015 Chairman of the Board
June 2022 Director, the Company (to present)
Itsuko Fukuda

Outside Director

Number of shares of the Company held: -
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: -
Significant concurrent positions: Outside Director of SINKO INDUSTRIES LTD.

Career summary
April 1984 Joined Toshiba Corporation
April 2015 General Manager, Quality Assurance Department, Komukai Complex, Toshiba Corporation
July 2017 General Manager, Quality Assurance Department, Komukai Complex, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
March 2018 Joined Tokyo Electronic Systems Corporation
June 2018 President CEO, Tokyo Electronic Systems Corporation
October 2019 President CEO, Toshiba Electronic Systems Corporation
October 2022 Director, General Manager, Systems Division and General Manager, Sales Division, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
June 2024 Outside Director, SINKO INDUSTRIES LTD.
Director, the Company (to present)

Auditor

Takafumi Hirama

Auditor

Number of shares of the Company held: 6,500 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (13/13)
Attendance at Board of Corporate Auditors meetings: 100% (14/14)
Note: After his appointment on June 28, 2023
Significant concurrent positions: None

Career summary
April 1985 Joined the Company
April 2015 General Manager, Quality Assurance Department
April 2018 General Manager of Quality Assurance
April 2020 Head of Kashiwa Mill
June 2020 Executive Officer, Head of Kashiwa Mill
March 2021 Executive Officer, Head and General Manager of Kashiwa Mill
April 2022 Executive Officer, Supervising Mill Manager
June 2023 Full-time Corporate Auditor (to present)
Masato Denawa

Outside Auditor

Number of shares of the Company held: 4,300 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (17/17)
Attendance at Board of Corporate Auditors meetings: 100% (20/20)
Significant concurrent positions: Partner of Spring Partners, Director of ADVICE LINK Inc., Supervising Officer of Japan Prime Realty Investment Corporation, Accident compensation examination commission member of the Supreme Court of Japan, Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of BML, Inc.

Career summary
April 1990 Registered as an attorney (Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association)
Joined Okinobu & Ishihara Law Office (currently Spring Partners)
January 1999 Partner, Spring Partners (to present)
June 2000 Corporate Auditor, KINKANDO CO., LTD.
April 2002 Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Keio University
July 2007 Director, ADVICE LINK Inc. (to present)
September 2007 Supervising Officer, Japan Prime Realty Investment Corporation (to present)
April 2009 Adjunct Lecturer, Keio University Law School
April 2011 Practicing-Attorney-Professor for Civil Advocacy, The Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan, Supreme Court of Japan
April 2013 Senior-Practicing-Attorney-Professor for Civil Advocacy, The Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan, Supreme Court of Japan
September 2014 Adjunct Lecturer, Keio University Law School
June 2015 Corporate Auditor, the Company (to present)
February 2021 Accident compensation examination commission member, Supreme Court of Japan (to present)
June 2021 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, BML, Inc. (to present)
Takako Okada

Outside Auditor

Number of shares of the Company held: 1,500 shares
Attendance at Board of Directors meetings: 100% (17/17)
Attendance at Board of Corporate Auditors meetings: 100% (20/20)
Significant concurrent positions: Representative of Takako Okada CPA Tax Firm, Director (Audit and Supervisory Board Member) of NIPPON KANZAI Co., Ltd., Outside Corporate Auditor, RUN. EDGE Limited

Career summary
October 1992 Joined Sanwa Tokyo Marunouchi Office (currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)
April 1996 Registered as Certified Public Accountant
September 2004 Transferred to Tohmatsu Tax Co. (currently Deloitte Tohmatsu Tax Co.)
November 2011 Registered as Certified Public Tax Accountant
January 2019 Established Takako Okada CPA Tax Firm as Representative (to present)
June 2019 Corporate Auditor the Company (to present)
March 2020 Outside Corporate Auditor, Kenedix, Inc.
Corporate Auditor, Kenedix Real Estate Fund Management, Inc.
June 2021 Director (Audit and Supervisory Board Member), NIPPON KANZAI Co., Ltd. (to present)
January 2023 Outside Corporate Auditor, RUN. EDGE Limited (to present)
April 2023 Director (Audit and Supervisory Board Member), Nippon Kanzai Holdings Co., Ltd. (to present)

Executive Officer

Current position within the Company Name Reponsive
President, Representative Director
Chief Executive Officer 		Takanobu Yazaki
Director, Senior Managing Officer Tomohiro Mochizuki In charge of General Affairs, Business Planning Department and Quality Assurance Department and in charge of Ichikawa Techno Fabrics Co., Ltd.
Director, Managing Executive Officer Wataru Kobori In charge of Production
Director, Managing Executive Officer Hiroyuki Toyama In charge of Sales and General Manager of Global Sales
Director, Managing Executive Officer Masanori Morokawa In charge of Technology
Senior Managing Officer Jukka Lehto Oversight of Europe and North Americas
Managing Executive Officer Yoshikazu Shiba General Manager of Engineering Department
Executive Officer Hiroyuki Oda General Manager of Production Technology Department
Executive Officer Takeshi Ikeda General Manager of Corporate Audit Department
Executive Officer Hajime Yoshimura General Manager of Domestic Sales Division and General Manager of Sales Planning Department
Executive Officer Hideyuki Okada Representative of Ichikawa Techno Fabrics Co., Ltd.
Executive Officer Atsushi Yamazaki General Manager and Section Manager of General Affairs Department