Profile

As of April 1, 2024

Outside Director Yasushi Shingai

(Date of birth: January 11, 1956)

Biography

  • Apr. 1980 Joined the Japan Tobacco and Salt D11Public Corporation (presently Japan Tobacco Inc.)
  • Jul. 2001 Vice President, Finance Planning Division
  • Jul. 2004 Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
  • Jun. 2005 Member of the Board, Senior Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer
  • Jun. 2006 Member of the Board of Japan Tobacco Inc., Executive Vice President, JT International S.A.
  • Jun. 2011 Representative Director and Executive Vice President, Japan Tobacco Inc.
  • Jan. 2018 Member of the Board
  • Jun. 2019 Outside Director, Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. (to present)
  • Apr. 2022 Representative Director, Shingai Management Institute Co., Ltd. (to present)

Number of shares held

300 shares

Activities during FY2023

Attended 21 Board of Directors meetings out of all 21 meetings held

Reason of appointment

In addition to his deep experience and insight gained through acting as business executive of a global company, he has rich experience and sophisticated and expert knowledge of corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions as the finance officer. He has also brought significant benefits to the Company by supervising management and advising on various matters of corporate management based on his global and objective viewpoint at the Board of Directors meetings and other occasions. The Company expects that he will continuously share his experience and expertise on oversight of management of the Group as before, and therefore appointed him as an outside director.

Other major occupations

  • Representative Director, Shingai Management Institute Co., Ltd.
  • Outside Director, ExaWizards Inc.
  • Outside Director, Olympus Corporation