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Leadership

* as of November 29, 2023

Directors

INOUE Takashi

Representative Director,
President and Managing Officer

1968	Born in 1968
1991	Joined Recruit Cosmos Co., Ltd. (currently Cosmos Initia Co., Ltd.)
1992	Transferred to Recruit Co., Ltd. (currently Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.)
1995	Founded NEXT HOME Co.
1997	Established the Company, Representative Director
2014	Representative Director of Next Wisdom Foundation Trovit Search, S.L.U. Chairperson (current position)
2016	Director of Japan Association of New Economy (current position)
2018	Representative Director,President and Managing Officer (current position)
2019	Representaive Director of PEACE DAY (current positon) Mitula Group Limited Board member (current positon) LIFULL CONNECT, S.L.U. Board member (current positon)

ITO Yuji

Director,
Managing Officerr,
General Manager and Head of LIFULL HOME’S Business Department

1982	Born in 1982
2006	Joined the Company
2015	Managing Officer
2020	Director, Managing Officer (current position)

SHIMIZU Tetsuro

Director

1967	Born in 1967
1990	Joined The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited (currently Shinsei Bank, Limited)
2001	Joined IY Bank Co., Ltd. (currently Seven Bank, Ltd.)
2006	Joined Rakuten, Inc. (currently Rakuten Group, Inc.)
2009	Seconded to bitWallet Inc. (currently Rakuten Edy Inc.)
2012	Joined Shinsei Bank, Limited, General Manager of Retail Business Division
2015	Executive Officer and Head of Retail Banking Sub-Group of Individual Group
2016	Managing Executive Officer, Head of Individual Business and in charge of Group Business Strategy (Secondary)
2019	Chairman of the Board of Financial Japan Co., Ltd. Representative Director, President and CEO of APLUS FINANCIAL Co., Ltd. Representative Director and President, President and Executive Officer and CEO of APLUS CO., Ltd. Representative Director, President and CEO of APLUS Personal Loan Co., Ltd.
2021	Chief Officer, Head of Individual Business Unit, Senior Officer of Group Corporate Planning and Finance and in charge of sustainability planning of Group Corporate Planning Division of Shinsei Bank, Limited Representative Director, President and CEO of Shinsei Financial Co., Ltd. Outside Director of Kotora Co., Ltd. (current position)
2022	Group Chief Sustainability Officer of Shinsei Bank, Limited Representative Partner of T2PLUS G.K. (current position) Senior Executive Director of Strategic Planning Office of Monex Group, Inc. (current position) Outside Director of the Company
2023	Representative Director, President and CEO of LIFULL Financial Co., Ltd. (current position) Director of the Company (current position)

YAMADA Takashi

Director,
Managing Officer,
Head of Group Data Division

1973	Born in 1973
1992	Joined Bab-Hitachi Business Corporation
1996	Joined Eto Soft Office Ltd.
2000	Joined the Company
2010	Managing Officer
2014	Director, Managing Officer (current position)
2017	Technology Platform Departments Authorized Representative of Vietnam Creative Consulting Co.,Ltd. (currently LIFULL TECH VITNAM COMPANY LIMITED) (current position)

KOBAYASHI Masatada

Outside Director

1971	Born in 1971
1994	Joined Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
1997	Joined MDM, Inc. (currently Rakuten Group, Inc.)
2006	Managing Executive Officer (current position)
2016	Chairman of Taiwan Rakuten Ichiba, Inc. (current position)
2019	Outside Director of the Company (current position)

NAKAO Ryuichiro

Outside Director,
Independent Officer

1964	Born in 1964
1989	Joined Recruit Co., Ltd. (currently Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.)
2006	Company Partner of Corporate Strategy Office
2007	Corporate Executive Officer of Recruit Sumai Company
2013	President and Representative Director of Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd.
2017	Vice President of Recruit Works Institute, Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. Outside Director of TABIKOBO Co. Ltd. (current position)
2019	CEO & Founder of Nakao Management Institute Inc. (current position) Outside Director of the Company (current position)
2021	Fellow of Hakuhodo DY Holdings Inc. (current position)

OKUBO Kazutaka

Outside Director,
Independent Officer

1973	Born in 1973
1995	Joined Century Audit Corporation (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
1999	Registered as certified public accountant
2003	Director of ShinNihon Integrity Assurance Inc. (Currently Ernst & Young Sustainability Co., Ltd.)
2005	Managing Director

2006	Partner of Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC

2012	Senior Partner

2016	Senior Managing Director and General Manager of ERM Department
2019	President and Representative Director of Okubo Associates Inc. (current position) Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC. (current position) Outside Director of Sun Frontier Fudousan Co., Ltd. (current position) Project Professor of Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University (current position) Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of BrainPad Inc. (current position) Outside Director of the Company (current position)
2020	Outside Director of SALA Corporation (current position) Outside Director of The Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. (current position) Outside Director of Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. (current position)

KIMURA Naonori

Outside Director,
Independent Officer

1968	Born in 1968
1988	Founded a venture company
1998	Solution specialist at NCR Japan, Ltd.
2001	Consultant at Towers Perrin Tokyo Office
2004	Manager of Arthur D. Little Japan-Tokyo
2007	Director of Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.
2012	Partner and Managing Director (current position)
2013	Professor at Graduate School of Management of GLOBIS University (current position)
2016	Executive Officer of IGPI (Shanghai) Ltd.
2017	Outside Director of Sanden Holdings Corporation Outside Director of Molten Corporation (current position)
2019	Chairman and President of IGPI (Shanghai) Ltd. (current position)
2021	Outside Director of Relia, Inc. (current position)
2022	Adjunct Professor of Graduate School of Leadership and Innovation of Shinzenkan University (current position) Outside Director of the Company (current position)

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

SHISHIDO Kiyoshi

Full–time Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member,
Independent Officer

1956	Born in 1956
1980	Joined Mitsubishi Corporation
1998	General Manager of Motor Vehicle Dept. of Mitsubishi International Steel Inc. (U.S.)
2006	Chief Executive Officer of Vitamin C60 BioResearch Corporation
2007	Specially Appointed Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology General Manager of Technology & Business Development Dept., Mitsubishi Corporation
2011	Member of the Board and Executive Officer in charge of Strategy Planning of Trility Pty Ltd(Australia)
2016	General Manager in charge of audits of Global Environmental & Infrastructure Business Group of Mitsubishi Corporation Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company(full-time) (current position)

NAKAMORI Makiko

Audit & Supervisory Board Member,
Independent Officer

1963	Born in 1963
1987	Joined Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
1991	Joined Inoue Saito Eiwa Audit Corporation (currently KPMG AZSA LLC)
1996	Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
1997	Representative Director of Nakamori CPA offices (current position)
2000	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Oracle Corporation Japan
2006	Outside Auditor of istyle Inc. (current position)
2008	Outside Director of Oracle Corporation Japan
2011	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Jade Group K.K. (currently Locondo, Inc.) Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of M&A Capital Partners Co., Ltd. (current position)
2013	Outside Director of ITOCHU TechnoSolutions Corporation Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company (current position)
2015	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of TeamSpirit Inc.
2019	Outside Member of the Board of ITOCHU Corporation (current position)

MATSUSHIMA Kie

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

1975	Born in 1975
2001	Registered with Tokyo Bar Association Associate of Tokiwa Law Office
2005	Technical Cooperation Expert Development Trainee of Japan International Cooperation Agency (Training in International Cooperation Department of Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice)
2006	Long-Term Expert in Uzbekistan of Japan International Cooperation Agency
2010	Senior Consultant of PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V.
2014	Manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V.
2015	Manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory LLC
2017	Associate of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune LPC
2019	Outside Auditor of THE KAGOSHIMA BANK, LTD. (current position)
2020	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company (current position)
2021	Special Counsel of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (current position) Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) of THE KAGOSHIMA BANK, LTD. (current position)

NISHIGAKI Atsushi

Audit & Supervisory Board Member,
Independent Officer

1961	Born in 1961
1984	Joined The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited (currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
2004	Deputy General Manager of Business Solution Department of Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
2009	General Manager of Takadanobaba Branch
2011	General Manager of Marunouchi-Chuo Corporate Department
2013	Adviser of Shibuya-Chuo Division No.2 Director and General Manager of Planning Division of OHBA Co., Ltd.
2016	Managing Director, CFO and General Manager of Planning Division
2020	Managing Director and in charge of internal control
2022	Outside Director of Japan Urban Planning Co., Ltd. (current position) Outside Director of Kinki Toshi-Seibi Co., Ltd. (current position) Adviser in charge of corporate planning at Tokyo Urban Planning Development Corporation (current position) Outside Director of the Company (current position)

Related Information

For more information on governance, refer to our Corporate Governance Page.

Managing Officers

HADA Yukihiro

Managing Officer
CPO (Chief People Officer)
General Manager of Human Resources Department

1976	Born in 1976
2005	Joined the Company
2015	Managing Officer of the Company (current position)

FUKUZAWA Hidekazu

Managing Officer
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
General Manager of Group Company Business Development Department

1979	Born in 1979
2002	Joined iSLE Co., Ltd. (currently GMO CLOUD K.K.)
2007	Joined the Company
2019	Managing Officer of the Company(current position)

KAWASAKI Kohei

Managing Officer
CCO (Chief Creative Officer)
General Manager of Creative Department,
Assistant Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division,
Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division Marketing Department

1981	Born in 1981
2017	Joined the Company
2018	Managing Officer of the Company(current position)

NAGASAWA Tsubasa

Managing Officer
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
General Manager of Technology Department,
Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division Innovation Development Office,
Group Data Division

1985	Born in 1985
2008	Joined the Company
2021	Managing Officer of the Company(current position)