Board of Directors

Board of Directors INDEX

Director, Chairman

ITANI Kenji

ITANI Kenji

Career summary:

May 1976
Joined TOA Corporation
April 2000
General Manager, Logistics Department, Sales Division 
October 2001
Executive Officer, General Manager, East Japan Sales Department
April 2005
Executive Officer, General Manager, Logistics Department
June 2005
Director, Senior Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Supply Chain Management Division
October 2007
Director, Senior Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Supply Chain Management Division, and Executive Manager, Audio R&D Division
June 2008
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Supply Chain Management Division, and Executive Manager, Audio R&D Division
June 2009
President, CEO
June 2015
Chairman and CEO
June 2017
Director, Chairman

 

President, CEO

TANIGUCHI Masahiro

TANIGUCHI Masahiro

Career summary: 

April 1994
Joined TOA Corporation
January 2005
President, TOA CORPORATION (UK) LIMITED
April 2008
Assistant Executive Manager, Supply Chain Management Division
April 2009
General Manager, Management Planning Department
April 2014
General Manager, Management Planning Department, Corporate Planning Division
April 2016
Executive Manager, Administration Division
April 2017
Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Administration Division
April 2020
Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Global R&D Division
June 2022
Director, Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Global R&D Division, and in charge of Quality Assurance Department
June 2023
President, CEO

Director

HAYAKAWA Hiroshi

HAYAKAWA Hiroshi

Career summary: 

April 1986
Joined TOA Corporation
April 2013
General Manager, Kyushu Area Sales Department, Sales Division
April 2015
General Manager, Kyushu Area Sales Department, Domestic Sales Division, Sales Division
April 2017
General Manager, Metropolitan Area Sales Department, Domestic Sales Division, Sales Division
April 2018
Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Solution Sales Division
June 2022
Director, Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Solution Sales Division, and
in charge of Sales Engineering Department, Next Business Promotion Department
April 2023
Director, Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Solution Sales Division, and
in charge of Next Business Promotion Department
NISHINO Takashi

NISHINO Takashi

Career summary: 

April 1995
Joined TOA Corporation
April 2012
President, ACOUS Corporation
April 2014
President Director, PT. TOA GALVA INDUSTRIES
April 2017
Vice General Manager, Asia & Pacific Business Department, International Business Division
January 2018
General Manager, Asia & Pacific Business Department, International Business Division, and
Senior Product Director, and
President, TOA ELECTRONICS PTE LTD, and
President, TOA ELECTRONICS (M) SDN.BHD.
April 2018
Executive Officer, General Manager, Asia & Pacific Business Department, International Business Division, and
Senior Product Director, and
President, TOA ELECTRONICS PTE LTD, and
President, TOA ELECTRONICS (M) SDN.BHD.
January 2022
Executive Officer, General Manager, Asia & Pacific Business Department, International Business Division, and
Senior Product Director, and
President, TOA ELECTRONICS PTE LTD
April 2022
Executive Officer, General Manager, Asia & Pacific Business Department, International Business Division, and
Senior Product Director, and
President, TOA ELECTRONICS PTE LTD, and
President, CEO, TOA ELECTRONICS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
April 2024
Executive Officer, Executive Manager, International Business Division, and
in charge of Asia & Pacific Business Department
June 2024
Director, Executive Officer, Executive Manager, International Business Division, and
in charge of Asia & Pacific Business Department, and
in charge of Quality Assurance Department

Outside Director

MURATA Masashi

MURATA Masashi

Career summary: 

April 1983
Joined Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (currently AGC Inc.)
August 1999
Resigned from Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (currently AGC Inc.)
Joined Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. General Manager, Office of the President
September 2001
General Manager, Strategic Planning Group, Sales & Marketing Division, Prescription Pharmaceuticals, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
July 2002
General Manager, Ophthalmic Marketing Group, Sales & Marketing Division, Prescription Pharmaceuticals, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
January 2005
General Manager, Strategic Planning & Controlling Group, Sales & Marketing Division, Prescription Pharmaceuticals, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
April 2007
General Manager, Corporate Planning Group, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
July 2011
CAO (Chief Administrative Officer), Santen Inc.
January 2014
General Manager, Corporate Auditor’s Group, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
June 2016
Standing Corporate Auditor, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
June 2020
Senior Advisor, Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
June 2021
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, OSAKA Titanium technologies Co., Ltd.
Outside Director, TOA Corporation
June 2022
Member of the Audit & Supervisory Committee, OSAKA Titanium technologies Co., Ltd.
HANDA Minoru

HANDA Minoru

Career summary: 

April 1982
Joined Sony Corporation (currently Sony Group Corporation)
June 1996
General Manager, Quality Assurance Department, Bridgend Plant, Sony Manufacturing Company UK
January 2001
General Manager, Quality Assurance Department, San Diego Plant, Sony Electronics Inc.
April 2003
Vice President, in charge of quality, Sony Electronics Inc.
February 2007
General Manager, Quality Assurance Department, Energy Devices Division, Sony Corporation (currently Sony Group Corporation)
February 2013
Deputy General Manager, Quality and Environment Center, Sony Corporation (currently Sony Group Corporation)
September 2014
Seconded from Sony Corporation (currently Sony Group Corporation), President and Representative Director, Green Cycle Corporation
October 2019
Retired from Sony Corporation (currently Sony Group Corporation)
November 2019
Joined InoueKiko Co., Ltd., Plant Manager, InoueKiko Co., Ltd.
January 2022
Retired from InoueKiko Co., Ltd.
February 2022
Joined ARIAKE KOUGYO CO., LTD. Executive Officer, ARIAKE KOUGYO CO., LTD. (in charge of ARIAKE KOUGYO MATERIALS CO.,LTD.)
Seconded from ARIAKE KOUGYO CO., LTD., Executive Officer, ARIAKE KOUGYO MATERIALS CO.,LTD. (Assistant to the President)
May 2022
Executive Officer, ARIAKE KOUGYO CO., LTD.
June 2022
Outside Director, TOA Corporation
August 2022
President, CEO, ARIAKE KOUGYO MATERIALS CO.,LTD.

Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member

 NISHIGAKI Takefumi

NISHIGAKI Takefumi

Career summary: 

April 1987
Joined TOA Corporation
March 2001
President, TOA Electronics Europe G.m.b.H.
June 2008
Executive Officer, TOA Corporation
President, TOA Electronics Europe G.m.b.H., and President, TOA CORPORATION (UK) LIMITED
April 2010
Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Technical Division
April 2016
Executive Officer, Vice Executive Manager, R&D Division
June 2017
Executive Officer, Executive Manager, R&D Division
April 2018
Executive Officer, Executive Manager, Global R&D Division
June 2020
Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

NISHIKATA Kazuyo

NISHIKATA Kazuyo

Career summary: 

October 2003
Registered as an attorney-at-law
joined KOBE PARTNERS LAW OFFICE
April 2005
Legal Counselor, Kobe City Gender Equality Promotion Center
April 2006
Domestic Violence Legal Counselor, Hyogo Prefecture Women’s Family Center
April 2018
Member, Kobe City Real Estate Deliberation Committee
June 2018
Deputy Director, Japan Federation of Bar Associations Trust Center
November 2020
Member, Hyogo Prefecture Information Disclosure Personal Information Protection Committee
April 2021
Governor, Japan Federation of Bar Associations
June 2022
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, TOA Corporation

 

SAWA Amane

SAWA Amane

Career summary: 

April 1999
Joined Asahi & Co. (current KPMG AZSA & Co.)
April 2002
Registered as a certified public accountant
September 2009
Transferred to KPMG Tax Corporation
Part-time Instructor, Institute of Business and Accounting, Professional Graduate School, Kwansei Gakuin University
December 2009
Registered as a tax accountant
April 2011
Retired from KPMG Tax Corporation
Established Sawa Certified Public Accountant Office, Representative
June 2023
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, TOA Corporation

Skills matrix of the Board of Directors

The major skills (knowledge, experience, and abilities) of each Director and Audit & Supervisory Board Member will be as follows.

(as of June 26, 2024)

The major skills (knowledge, experience, and abilities) of each Director and Audit & Supervisory Board Member

*Displays a maximum of three areas of knowledge and experience for each Director and Audit & Supervisory Board member. It is not an exhaustive list.