Management

Executive Management

Chairman and CEO	Toshiyuki Shiga
President and COO	Mikihide Katsumata
Member of the Board	Tetsuro Toyoda
Member of the Board	Takashi Osada
Member of the Board	Yuichi Moronaga
Senior Executive Managing Director	Nobuyuki Higashi
Executive Managing Director	Koichi Ashida
Executive Managing Director	Shinji Oshige
Executive Managing Director	Peter Niklai
External Director	Akio Mimura
External Director	Hideko Kunii
External Director	Hajime Tanahashi
External Director	Tetsuo Noda
External Director	Takashi Muraoka
Corporate Auditor	Hideo Takaura

Innovation Network Committee

The Innovation Network Committee is an internal organization established in order to make objective and neutral decisions regarding the investment projects to be conducted by INCJ, Ltd. Because INCJ, Ltd. is managed under the similar framework based on the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Act, the Committee is composed of INCJ representative directors and external directors. The corporate auditor also attends meetings of the Committee.

Innovation Network Committee Chairman

Akio Mimura

Prior Experience	1963	Began employment with Fuji Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.
	2000	Managing Director of Nippon Steel Corp
	2003	President of Nippon Steel Corp.
	2008	Chairperson of Nippon Steel Corp. Director, Member of the Board and Senior Advisor of NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
	2013-	Senior Advisor, Honorary Chairperson of NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION (currently known as Nippon Steel Corporation)
	2005-2009	Vice-Chairperson of Nippon Keidanren
	2013-2022	Chairperson of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairperson of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry
	2022-	Honorary Chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Honorary Chairman of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Education	1963	Graduated Tokyo University Economics Dept., Economics Faculty
	1972	MBA at Harvard University

Innovation Network Committee Deputy Chairman

Hideko Kunii

Prior Experience	1979-1985	President of an American software venture company
	1985-2002	Director of Software Institute at Ricoh Company, Ltd.
	1989-1995	Head of Software Operations Division at Ricoh Company, Ltd.
	2002-2008	General Manager of Software R&D Headquarters at Ricoh Company, Ltd.
	2002-2004	Chairperson of Ricoh Software Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
	2005-2008	Corporate Senior Vice President of Ricoh Company, Ltd.
	2008-2013	Chairperson and Operating Officer at Ricoh Software (currently known as Ricoh IT Solutions Co., Ltd.)
	2013-2018	Deputy President, Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering Management
	2015-2021	Outside Director of the Board at Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation
	2018-2019	Visiting Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering Management
	2018-2023	Director at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings
	2019-present	Visiting Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology
Education	1973	Masters in Physics at Ochanomizu University
	1976	Masters in Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University
	1983	PhD at The University of Texas at Austin

Innovation Network Committee Member

Hajime Tanahashi

Prior Experience	1992	Admitted to the Bar in Japan. Joined law firm Mori Sogo.
	1996	Worked in the U.S., New York, with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
	1997	Admitted to the New York Bar. Pursued legal work on venture enterprises in Palo Alto, California, with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
	2005-Present	Part-time Lecturer at Waseda Law School
	2007-2016	Part-time Lecturer at Kyoto University Law School
	1998-Present	Responsible for mergers and acquisitions, investment questions and IPOs of Japanese and foreign companies. Currently a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Education	1990	Graduated Tokyo University Law Dept.
	1996	Graduated Harvard University Law School

Tetsuo Noda

Prior Experience	1988	Visiting Scientist, Whitehead Institute, MIT, United States
	1990	Division Head, Cancer Institute
	1997	Professor of Molecular Genetics, Tohoku University School of Medicine
	2002	Director, United Centers for Advanced Research and Translational Medicine
	2006-Present	Director, Cancer Institute
	2009-2014	President, Japanese Cancer Association
	2013-Present	Representative Director, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
Education	1980	M. D. at Tohoku Univerisity School of Medicine
	1984	Ph. D. at Graduate School for Medical Sciece, Tohoku University

Takashi Muraoka

Prior Experience	1989-2000	Sanwa Bank (currently The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.)
	2000-2003	Morgan Stanley
	2003-2005	Managing Director at Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan
	2007-2011	Managing Director at Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. Organ Transplantation Service
	2013-2016	Counselor at Financial Service Agency
	2016-2020	Managing Partner at Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.
	2020	CEO at Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.
Education	1989	Graduated Tokyo University, Faculty of Agriculture
	1994	MBA at UCLA

Statutory Auditor

Hideo Takaura

Prior Experience	1974	Price Waterhouse Japan Firm (In 1983 formed as Aoyama Audit Corporation)
	1979-1982	Price Waterhouse Australia
	1987	Admitted to Price Waterhouse Japan Firm/Aoyama Audit Corporation
	1993-1996/ 1999-2000	CEO of Price Waterhouse Japan Firm/Aoyama Audit Corporation
	2000	Merged with Chuo Audit Corporation, Vice Chairman of ChuoAoyama Audit Corporation
	2006-2009	Admitted to PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata, Chief Executive Officer
Education	1972	Graduated Osaka City University, Commerce
	1977	Registered as Japanese CPA (No. 5942)

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