OFFICER List of Executives
Directors
Representative Director and President
![Katsuyuki Tomizawa](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_1.png)
Katsuyuki Tomizawa
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Biography
1983: Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
2005: Director and General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Automation (Shanghai) Ltd.
2008: Chairman and General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Automation (China) Ltd.
Chairman and General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Automation (Hong Kong) Ltd.
2012: Deputy General Manager of Nagoya Works, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
2015: Director and Deputy General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric (China) Ltd.
2017: Executive Officer and Representative Director for China, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Chairman and General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric (China) Ltd.
2021: Joined the RYODEN CORPORATION
Vice President and Executive Officer
2022: Representative Director and President (current position)
Director and Managing Executive Officer
![Shunichi Higashi](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_2.png)
Shunichi Higashi
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Biography
1984: Joined RYODEN CORPORATION
2004: General Manager of Device Department 1, Semiconductor & Device Business Headquarters
2006: General Manager of Electronic Device Department 1
and General Manager of Planning Department, Electronic Device Business Headquarters
2008: General Manager of Department 1, Semiconductor & Device Business Headquarters Department 3
and General Manager of Planning Department and New Business Development Department
2010: General Manager of Sales Department 1, Semiconductor & Device Sales Headquarters 3,
Semiconductor & Device Business Headquarters
2012: General Manager of Global Strategic Planning, Semiconductor & Device Business Headquarters
2013: General Manager of Global Strategy Department, Semiconductor & Device Business Headquarters
2014: General Manager of Global Strategy Department, Solution Business Headquarters
2016: General Manager of Device Business Division 2, Solution Business Headquarters
Director, Deputy General Manager of Solutions Business Headquarters
and General Manager of Device Business Division 2
2017: Director, Deputy General Manager of Device Systems Business Headquarters
and General Manager of Device Business Division 2
2018: Director, Deputy General Manager of Tokyo Branch
Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of Tokyo Branch
2019: Executive Officer, General Manager of Tokyo Branch,
Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Tokyo Branch
2021: Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Device Systems Business Headquarters
2023: Director, Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Device Systems Business Headquarters
(current position)
![Kazumoto Yogosawa](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_3.png)
Kazumoto Yogosawa
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Biography
1983: Joined RYODEN CORPORATION
2002: General Manager of Semiconductor & Device Department 3, Tokyo Branch
2008: Director and General Manager of Ryosho Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
2011: Chairman and General Manager of Ryosho Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
2013: Director of East Asia Strategy Bureau, Overseas Business Promotion Office,
and Chairman and General Manager of Ryosho Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
2014: Deputy General Manager of Tokyo Branch
2016: General Manager of Kanagawa Branch
2018: General Manager of ICT Solutions Business Division
Executive Officer, General Manager of ICT Solutions Business Division
2021: Executive Officer, General Manager of Central Japan Branch,
Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Central Japan Branch
2023: Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Corporate Planning Office
2024: Director, Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Corporate Planning Office (current position)
External Director
![Hideki Matsuo](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_4.png)
Hideki Matsuo
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Biography
1982: Joined Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals Co., Ltd. (currently Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.)
2000: Director and Factory Manager of MITSUI BISPHENOL SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
2003: Concurrently Director and Factory Manager of MITSUI PHENOL SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
2006: President of Shanghai Sino-Petrochemical Mitsui Chemicals Co., Ltd.
2009: Executive Director and General Manager of Planning, Development and Licensing Department,
Basic Chemicals Business Headquarters, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2010: Executive Director and General Manager of Planning and Management Department,
Petrochemical Business Headquarters, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2011: Executive Director and Deputy General Manager of Production and Technology Headquarters,
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2013: Executive Officer and General Manager of Production and Technology Headquarters,
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2014: Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of Production and Technology Headquarters,
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2016: Director and Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of Production
and Technology Headquarters, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2017: Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer
and General Manager of Production and Technology Headquarters, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2018: Representative Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer (CTO), Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2020: Representative Director and Executive Vice President (CTO), Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
2022: Director of Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Toyo Engineering Corporation
(current position)
2023: External Director of RYODEN CORPORATION (current position)
2024: External Director, ALCONIX CORPORATION (current position)
Significant concurrent positions:
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Toyo Engineering Corporation
![Goro Fujiwara](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_5.png)
Goro Fujiwara
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Biography
1992: Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
2019: General Manager of Business Promotion Department, Central Branch, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
2021: Vice Branch Manager of Central Branch, and General Manager of Business Promotion Department,
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
2022: Vice Branch Manager of Central Branch, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
2023: General Manager of Business Planning Department, Sales Division,
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (current position)
Outside Auditor, Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Solutions Corporation (current position)
Outside Auditor, Nagano Mitsubishi Electric Equipment Sales Corporation (current position)
External Director, RYODEN CORPORATION (current position)
Significant concurrent positions:
General Manager of Business Planning Department, Sales Division, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
![Yuka Ogasawara](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_6.png)
Yuka Ogasawara
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Biography
1999: Joined Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (currently the Japan Bank for International Cooperation)
2005: Joined Bain & Company
2009: Joined Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
2019: Impact Officer, Japan Social Change Promotion Organization
(currently the Japan Social Innovation and Investment Foundation)
2022: Outside Auditor, Rennovater Co., Ltd. (current position)
External Director, Nissin Food Holdings Co., Ltd. (current position)
2023: Director, Fujimura Research Institute, Ltd. (current position)
2024: External Director, RYODEN CORPORATION (current position)
External Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member), Orient Corporation (current position)
Significant concurrent positions: External Director, Nissin Food Holdings Co., Ltd.
Director, Fujimura Research Institute, Ltd.
Director and Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
![Hirozo Tomomori](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_7.png)
Hirozo Tomomori
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Biography
1985: Joined RYODEN CORPORATION
2011: Deputy General Manager of the Accounting Department
2015: General Manager of the General Affairs Department of the Tokyo Branch
2020: General Manager of the General Affairs Department
2023: Audit and Supervisory Board Member of the Company
2024: Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (current position)
External Director and Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
![Noriko Sekiguchi](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_8.png)
Noriko Sekiguchi
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Biography
1994: Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
2002: Re-registered as a Certified Public Accountant
2010: Director of Sekiguchi Certified Public Accounting Office
(currently Sekiguchi Noriko Certified Public Accounting Office) (current position)
2012: Registered as a Tax Accountant
2015: External Director of Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
2019: Executive Officer of Chifure Holdings Co., Ltd.
2021: Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Oji Holdings Corporation (current position)
2022: Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of RYODEN CORPORATION
Auditor of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (current position)
2023: External Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) of Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
(current position)
2024: External Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (current position)
Significant concurrent positions:
Director of Sekiguchi Noriko Certified Public Accounting Office
External Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) of Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Oji Holdings Co., Ltd.
Auditor of the Japan International Cooperation Agency
![Thomas Vitti](https://en.ryoden.co.jp/hubfs/RYODEN/images/corporate/officer/img_officer_9.png)
Thomas Vitti
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Biography
1992: Joined Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, Düsseldorf
1995: Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, Tokyo
2006: Tokyo Managing Partner, ARQIS Foreign Law Office (current position)
2008: Part-time lecturer in business law at the Graduate School of International Management,
University of Tsukuba
2013: Representative of the Japanese Office of GERMAN-JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF JURISTS
2022: External Director of RYODEN CORPORATION
2024: External Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (current position)
Significant concurrent positions:
Tokyo Managing Partner, ARQIS Foreign Law Office
Executive Officer
Managing Executive Officer | Ko Oniwa |
General Manager of Central Japan Branch |
Managing Executive Officer | Yasumaru Tokiwa |
General Manager of East Japan Branch |
Senior Executive Officer | Hiroshi Hiraide |
In charge of General Affairs |
Senior Executive Officer | Tetsuji Sorita |
General Manager of Strategic Technology Center |
Senior Executive Officer | Keiichi Yaji |
General Manager of FA & Facility Systems Division |
Senior Executive Officer | Shinji Inazawa |
In charge of New Business Promotion |
Senior Executive Officer | Shigechika Motoyama |
Deputy General Manager of Device Systems Business Headquarters |
Senior Executive Officer | Yasuhiro Shibata |
In charge of Financial Strategy, accounting, Business Management |
Executive Officer | Takamasa Nitta |
General Manager of Smart Agri Business Department, Green System Business Division |
Executive Officer | Keiichi Akashi |
General Manager of East Asia Strategy Division, Corporate Planning Office |
Executive Officer | Koichi Imaishi |
General Manager of Human Resources |
Executive Officer | Norihiko Yamamoto |
General Manager of Western Japan Branch |
Executive Officer | Noriyuki Shimizu |
General Manager of Green System Business Division |
Executive Officer | Tomoyuki Sugai |
General Manager of Southeast Asia Strategy Division, Corporate Planning Office |
Executive Officer | Naoki Kasano |
General Manager of the Facility Systems Division, FA & Facility Systems Business Headquarters |
Executive Officer | Satoshi Asahina |
General Manager of First Business Division, Device Systems Business Headquarters |