About Us
Members of the Board and Corporate Auditors
As of April 1, 2023
Members of the Board
*Representative director
Chairman of the Board
Nobuhiko Murakami
Personal Histories
| April 1982 | Joined Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (current Toyota Motor Corporation) |
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| April 2012 | Deputy Chief Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation |
| April 2014 | Corporate Senior Vice President, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (current SUBARU Corporation) |
| April 2015 | Corporate Executive Vice President, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. |
| April 2017 | Senior Managing Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation |
| January 2019 | Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation |
| January 2022 | Senior Project General Manager, Toyota Tsusho Corporation (current position) |
| June 2022 | Chairman of the Board (current position) |
*Member of the Board, President & CEO
Ichiro Kashitani
Personal Histories
| April 1983 | Joined Toyota Tsusho Corporation |
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| April 2005 | General Manager of Automotive Planning Department |
| June 2011 | Executive Officer |
| April 2015 | Managing Executive Officer |
| June 2016 | Managing Director |
| April 2017 | Member of the Board, Senior Managing Executive Officer |
| June 2017 | Senior Managing Executive Officer |
| April 2018 | President & CEO |
| June 2018 | Member of the Board, President & CEO(current position) |
*Members of the Board
Hiroshi Tominaga
Personal Histories
| April 1985 | Joined Toyota Tsusho Corporation |
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| April 2007 | General Manager of Accounting Planning Department |
| April 2013 | Executive Officer |
| April 2017 | Managing Executive Officer |
| June 2017 | Member of the Board, Managing Executive Officer |
| April 2019 | Member of the Board, Assistant to CSO, CIO, CTO |
| April 2020 | Member of the Board, CSO, CDTO |
| June 2020 | CSO, CDTO |
| April 2021 | CSO, CEO for Region |
| June 2021 | Member of the Board, CSO, CEO for Region (current position) |
Hideyuki Iwamoto
Personal Histories
| April 1985 | Joined Tomen Corporation (current Toyota Tsusho Corporation ) |
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| April 2009 | General Manager of Corporate Planning Department |
| April 2013 | Executive Officer |
| April 2017 | Managing Executive Officer |
| June 2017 | Member of the Board, Managing Executive Officer |
| April 2019 | Member of the Board, CFO |
| June 2020 | CFO |
| June 2021 | Member of the Board, CFO (current position) |
Outside Members of the Board
Kumi Fujisawa
Personal Histories
| April 1995 | Representative Director, IFIS Co., Ltd. |
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| June 2000 | Director, Sophia Bank Limited |
| June 2004 | Executive Director, The Investment Trusts Association, Japan (current position) |
| June 2011 | Public Governor, Japan Securities Dealers Association (current position) |
| February 2012 | Director, Corporation for Revitalizing Earthquake-Affected Business |
| June 2013 | Director, The Shizuoka Bank, Ltd. (current position) |
| August 2013 | Representative Director, Sophia Bank Limited |
| June 2014 | Director, Toyota Tsusho Corporation (current position) Director, Scinex Corporation |
| May 2016 | Director, CREEK and RIVER Co., Ltd. |
| October 2018 | Director, Net Protections Holdings, Inc. (current position) |
| January 2021 | Director, CellSource Co., Ltd.(current position) |
| April 2022 | Chairperson, Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies, Ltd. (current position) |
Kunihito Koumoto
Personal Histories
| March 1979 | Received a Ph.D. in industrial chemistry from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering Doctorate of Engineering (The University of Tokyo) |
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| September 1986 | Associate professor, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
| April 1992 | Professor, School of Engineering, Nagoya University |
| April 1997 | Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University |
| April 2002 | Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Resource Science, Akita University(current position) |
| April 2011 | Director, Research Center for Materials Backcasting Technology, Nagoya University |
| April 2015 | Fellow, Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute |
| April 2018 | Senior Fellow, Foundation Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute (current position) |
| June 2018 | Director, Toyota Tsusho Corporation (current position) |
Didier Leroy
Personal Histories
| April 1982 | Joined Renault S.A. |
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| September 1998 | Vice president, Toyota Motor Manufacturing France S.A.S. |
| January 2005 | President, Toyota Motor Manufacturing France S.A.S. |
| June 2007 | Managing officer, Toyota Motor Corporation |
| July 2007 | Executive vice president, Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA |
| June 2010 | President, Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA |
| April 2011 | President and CEO, Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA |
| April 2012 | Senior managing officer, Toyota Motor Corporation |
| April 2015 | Chairman, Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA(current position) |
| June 2015 | Executive vice president, Toyota Motor Corporation |
| June 2018 | Director, Toyota Tsusho Corporation (current position) |
| April 2020 | Member of the Board of Directors, Toyota Motor Corporation |
Yukari Inoue
Personal Histories
| April 1985 | joined Procter & Gamble |
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| Octorber 1995 | Marketing Director, Procter & Gamble North America |
| Octorber 1998 | Feminine Care Marketing Director, Procter & Gamble Northeast Asia |
| March 2000 | Feminine Care General Manager, Procter & Gamble Northeast Asia |
| March 2003 | Managing Director, Jardine Wines and Spirits Ltd. (Currently MHD Moët Hennessy Diageo K.K.) |
| November 2005 | Representative Director and President, Cadbury Japan Limited (Currently Mondelēz Japan Limited) |
| July 2013 | Managing Director, Japan/Korea, Kellogg Japan G.K. |
| March 2015 | Director, Suntory Beverage & Food Limited (current position) |
| June 2020 | Director, Toyota Tsusho Corporation (current position) |
Audit & Supervisory Board Members
Audit & Supervisory Board Members
Kazumasa Miyazaki
Personal Histories
| April 1983 | Joined Toyota Tsusho Corporation |
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| June 2007 | General Manager of Corporate Planning Department |
| April 2016 | Senior Project General Manager |
| June 2020 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member (full-time) (current position) |
Kentaro Hayashi
Personal Histories
| April 1986 | Joined Tomen Corporation (current Toyota Tsusho Corporation) |
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| October 2013 | General Manager of ERM Department |
| June 2021 | Executive Director, Toyota Tsusho Foods Corporation |
| June 2022 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member (full-time) (current position) |
Audit & Supervisory Board Members (Outside)
Yuichiro Kuwano
Personal Histories
| April 1993 | Joined Hamada & Matsumoto law firm |
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| April 2002 | Lecturer, National Police Academy (current position) |
| April 2003 | Part-time lect2urer, Tokyo University of the Arts (current position) |
| September 2003 | Established Kotto Dori Law Offices |
| November 2012 | Special Member,Dispute Reconciliation Committee for Nuclear Damage Compensation, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (current position) |
| June 2016 | Director, Shobunsha Publications, Inc., (current position) Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Toyota Tsusho Corporation (current position) |
| April 2017 | Project Professor, Shimane University Graduate School of Law |
| March 2018 | Established Takagicho Law Office (current position) |
Tsutomu Takahashi
Personal Histories
| November 1979 | Joined Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. |
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| March 1994 | General Partner, Century Audit Corporation |
| July 2003 | Representative, KPMG AZSA & Co. (current KPMG AZSA LLC) |
| January 2004 | Director, KPMG AZSA & Co. |
| January 2006 | Executive Director, KPMG AZSA & Co. |
| July 2013 | Deputy Chairman, KPMG AZSA & Co. |
| October 2013 | Chairman, KPMG Japan |
| June 2019 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Toyota Tsusho Corporation (current position) Corporate Auditor, SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc. (current position) |
| June 2020 | Member of the Board of Directors (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member), Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.(current position) |
Seishi Tanoue
Personal Histories
| April 1976 | Joined Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. |
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| April 2003 | President & Representative Director, Toppan America Inc. |
| June 2015 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. |
| October 2019 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Tokyo Shoseki Co., Ltd. |
| June 2020 | External Auditor, Elematec Corporation |
| June 2022 | Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Toyota Tsusho Corporation (current position) |
Senior Executive Officers
- Ichiro Kashitani
- President & CEO
- Akihiro Sago
- Executive Vice President, CEO for Metals Division
Assistant to President, Chief Officer Responsible for Japan Regional Strategy & Coordination
- Toshimitsu Imai
- Executive Vice President, CTO, CEO for Europe Region
Deputy President, Chief Officer Responsible for Tokyo Head Office,
Chief Officer Responsible for Global Strategy and Management, Europe
- Richard Bielle
- CEO for Africa Division,CEO for Africa Region
President of CFAO, Africa
- Hiroshi Tominaga
- CSO, CEO for Emerging Regions
Officer Responsible for Tokyo Head Office,
Officer Responsible for Japan Regional Strategy &
Coordination, Officer Responsible for Global Strategy and Management
Emerging Regions
- Hideyuki Iwamoto
- CFO
- Jun Eyama
- CEO for Global Parts and Logistics Division
- Akinori Saito
- CSKO
- Naoyuki Hata
- CEO for North America Region
North America, President of Toyota Tsusho America, Inc.
- Hiroshi Yonenaga
- CEO for Food & Consumer Services Division
- Tatsuya Watanuki
- CEO for East Asia Region
Representative of East Asia Region
President of Toyota Tsusho (China) Co., Ltd.
- Shigeki Maeda
- CEO for Asia Pacific Region,
Asia Pacific, President of Toyota Tsusho (Thailand) Co., Ltd., President of Toyota Tsusho Thai Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Shigeru Harada
- CEO for Mobility Division
- Akio Hamada
- CEO for Chemicals & Electronics Division
- Kosuke Kunihiro
- CEO for Machinery, Energy & Project Division, Regional Officer for Emerging Regions
Emerging Regions
- Makiko Hamase
- CHRO
Executive Officers
- Kazumasa Kimura
- COO for Africa Division New Business Development, Regional Officer for Africa
Africa
- Yasuhiro Kakihara
- Company President
President of NEXTY Electronics Corporation
- Tetsuya Ezumi
- COO for Mobility Division
Toyota SBU, Multi Brands SBU
- Haruyuki Hattori
- Regional Officer for North America
North America, Senior Vice President of Toyota Tsusho America, Inc.
- Kazuyuki Urata
- COO for Chemicals & Electronics Division
Automotive Materials SBU
- Hiroki Nakayama
- Regional Officer for Asia Pacific, Company President
Asia Pacific, President of Toyota Tsusho Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
- Yuichi Kanazawa
- COO for Global Parts and Logistics Division,
Global Parts SBU
- Michael T. Lavender
- Regional Officer for North America
North America, Senior Vice President of Toyota Tsusho America, Inc.
- Koji Minami
- COO for Food & Consumer Services Division
Food & Agribusiness SBU
- Masaharu Katayama
- COO for Metal Division
Non-ferrous Metals SBU, Resources Recycling SBU
- Futoshi Horisaki
- COO for Global Parts and Logistics Division
Materials & Auto Parts/Accessories SBU
- Kazunori Sato
- COO for Chemicals & Electronics Division
Chemicals SBU
- Toshiyuki Azeo
- COO for Food & Consumer Services Division
Life Style SBU
- Jun Karato
- Deputy CTO
- Takashi Hirobe
- COO for Metals Division
Mobility Material SBU
- Hiromasa Ishii
- Regional Officer for Europe, Company President
Europe, President of Toyota Tsusho Europe S.A., President of Toyota Tsusho U.K.Ltd.
- Tatsuya Hirata
- COO for Africa Division, Regional Officer for Africa
Infrastructure SBU, Healthcare SBU, Consumer SBU, Africa, Vice President of CFAO
- Eiji Matsuzaki
- COO for Chemicals & Electronics Division,
Electronics SBU
- Masato Ozaki
- Company President
President of Toyotsu Chemiplas Corporation
- Nobuaki Yahiro
- Regional Officer for Asia Pacific, Company President
Asia Pacific, President of Toyota Tsusho India Private Ltd.
- Takuro Akasaka
- COO for Mobility Division
Value Chain SBU
- Shinichiro Otsuka
- COO for Africa Division, Regional Officer for Africa
Mobility SBU, Africa
- Shigeharu Kato
- Regional Officer for Emerging Regions, Company President
President of Toyota Tsusho Venezuera, C.A., President of C.I. Toyota Tsusho De Colombia S.A.S, Chairman & CEO of NovaAgri
- Kohei Okada
- Deputy CSO
- Hiroshi Yanagisawa
- COO for Metals Division
Metal Products SBU
- Yuko Kondo
- Deputy CFO
- Yasushi Aida
- Deputy CFO
- Shigeo Obata
- Deputy CSO
- Yuji Makino
- COO for Machinery, Energy & Project Division
Machinery SBU
Branch Manager of Toyota Branch
- Akihiro Endo
- COO for Global Parts and Logistics Division
Logistics and Module SBU
- Toshiyuki Ishikuro
- COO for Machinery, Energy & Project Division
Energy Infrastructure Solutions SBU
CEO：Chief Executive Officer
CTO: Chief Technology Officer
CSO：Chief Strategy Officer
CFO：Chief Financial Officer
CSKO : Chief Safety & KAIZEN Officer
CHRO：Chief Human Resources Officer
COO：Chief Operating Officer
SBU：Strategic Business Unit