MISUMI - Key Persons


Arata Shimizu

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Outside Director

Hideka Shoji

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • Vice President, Japan Business Company

Ichiro Otokozawa - CIO

Job Titles:
  • CIO
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Senior Corporate Officer

Juichi Nozue

Job Titles:
  • Outside Corporate Auditor

Koichi Kawakami

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • Chief of Headquarters

Kosuke Nishimoto - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Director
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Representative Director
  • Final Education

Masatake Sumi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • Chief of Headquarters / EC Service Development Office

Mitsunobu Yoshida

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Senior Corporate Officer

Nanako Aono

Job Titles:
  • Outside Corporate Auditor

Nobumasa Watanabe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • Managing Executive Officer, Japan Business Company and Chief Executive in Charge of

Nobuyoshi Kobayashi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • Vice President, Japan Business Company

Noriaki Murata

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • President, Europe Business Company

Ryuji Ohora

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • President, Americas Business Company

Ryusei Ono

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Executive Director and Chief Executive in Charge of China

Shaochun Xu

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Senior Corporate Officer

Shigetaka Shimizu

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • President, Japan Business Company

Tadashi Saegusa

Job Titles:
  • Chairman Emeritus, Second - Era Founder
Biography Graduated from Hitotsubashi University, with a degree in Economics, in 1967. Following a stint working for Mitsui Petrochemicals Industries, he became the first consultant hired by Boston Consulting Group in Japan. After obtaining an MBA from Stanford University; while he was in his 30s he was engaged in turning around unprofitable companies and managed a venture capital firms as President. Since his 40s, he spent 16 years supporting the rehabilitation of many companies undergoing downturns as "Business Turnaround Specialist". He became President and CEO of MISUMI (currently MISUMI Group Inc.) in 2002. He is also a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School. He has written several books including Strategic Professionals, Management Power in Crisis, Transforming a Company, Management of the V-Shaped Recovery, and others.

Takaaki Wada

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Auditor

Takako Sasaki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Representative Corporate Officer, Human Resources & Legal Platform

Takashi Baba

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • President, Factory - MRO Business Company

Takumi Toya

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team
  • Production Platform

Tomoki Kanatani

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Executive Director / Tomoki / Kanatani
  • President, Asia Business Company

Toru Arakawa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • President, China Business Company

Toru Takanami

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Representative Corporate Officer, SX Platform

Toshinari Sato

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Officers Team
  • Senior Corporate Officer

Yoichi Nakano

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Outside Director

Yusuke Kido

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Officers Team