Directors and Executive Officers | Yaskawa group profile | About Yaskawa

Representative Director,
Chairman of the Board, President

Hiroshi Ogasawara

March 1979	Joined the Company
June 2006	Director
March 2007	Director; General Manager, Drives Div.
March 2011	Director; General Manager, Motion Control Div.
June 2012	Executive Officer; General Manager, Motion Control Div.
June 2013	Director; Managing Executive Officer
March 2014	Director; Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Corporate Technology Div.
March 2015	Representative Director; Senior Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Corporate Technology Div.
March 2016	Representative Director, President; General Manager, Corporate Technology Div.
March 2017	Representative Director, President; In charge of Human Resources Development; Manager, Diversity Management Div.
March 2018	Representative Director, President; In charge of Human Resources Development; Manager, ICT Strategy Div.
July 2020	Representative Director, President; In charge of Human Resources Development; Regional Manager, China; Manager, ICT Strategy Div.
March 2022	Representative Director, Chairman of the Board; President; In charge of Human Resources Development; Regional Manager, China; General Manager, ICT Strategy Div.(to present)

Representative Director,
Senior Managing Executive Officer
Shuji Murakami

Career Summary

March 1982	Joined the Company
June 2008	Director; Manager, Corporate Planning Div.
June 2012	Director; Executive Officer;
March 2014	Director; Managing Executive Officer
March 2016	Representative Director; Senior Managing Executive Officer
March 2017	Representative Director; Senior Managing Executive Officer; In charge of CSR & Compliance; In charge of Administration; General Manager, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.
March 2020	Representative Director; Senior Managing Executive Officer; In charge of CSR; In charge of Administration; General Manager, Corporate Planning & Finance Div. (to present)

Representative Director,
Senior Managing Executive Officer
Masahiro Ogawa

Career Summary

March 1987	Joined the Company
December 2010	Chairman, YASKAWA AMERICA, Inc.
June 2012	Executive Officer of the company
March 2016	Executive Officer; General Manager, Robotics Div.; Chairman of the Board of Directors, YASKAWA SHOUGANG ROBOT CO., LTD. (to present)
March 2019	Executive Officer; General Manager, Robotics Div.; Department Manager, Control Technology Dept.; Robotics Div.
May 2019	Director
March 2020	Director, Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Robotics Div.; Department Manager, Control Technology Dept.; Robotics Div.
March 2021	Director; Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Robotics Div.
March 2022	Representative Director; Senior Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Robotics Div.; Department Manager, Business Planning Dept., Robotics Div. (to present)

Director, Managing Executive Officer
Yoshikatsu Minami

Career Summary

December 1983	Joined the Company
June 2008	Director
June 2012	Executive Officer; General Manager, Robotics Div.
June 2015	Director; Managing Executive Officer
March 2017	Director; Managing Executive Officer; In charge of ICT strategy; General Manager, Production Management & Operations Div.; General Manager, Export Administration Div.
March 2018	Director; Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Production Management & Operations Div.; General Manager, Export Administration Div.
March 2020	Director; Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Production Management & Operations Div.; General Manager, Export & Import Administration Div.(to present)

Director, Managing Executive Officer
Akira Kumagae

Career Summary

March 1985	Joined the Company
March 2014	Executive Officer; General Manager, Motion Control Div.
March 2019	Executive Officer; General Manager, Corporate Technology Div.; Department Manager, Electric Drive System Dept., Corporate Technology Div.
March 2020	Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Corporate Technology Div.; Department Manager, Electric Drive System Dept., Corporate Technology Div.
March 2021	Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Corporate Technology Div.
May 2022	Director; Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Corporate Technology Div. (to present)

Director, Senior Executive Officer
Yasuhiko Morikawa

Career Summary

April 1985	Joined The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited(currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
April 2008	Corporate Officer, Corporate Planning Group, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
April 2010	General Manager, Gotanda Branch, Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
April 2012	General Manager, Financial Institutions Banking Division No.1, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. (currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
April 2013	Executive Officer, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
May 2015	Joined the Company, Associate Director
March 2016	Executive Officer; General Manager, Tokyo Office, Corporate Marketing Div.; In charge of Corporate Marketing, Corporate Marketing Div.
March 2017	Executive Officer; General Manager in Finance, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.; In charge of Liaison, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.
March 2020	Executive Officer; In charge of Compliance; Deputy General Manager, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.; General Manager in Finance, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.
March 2021	Senior Executive Officer; In charge of Compliance; Deputy General Manager, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.; General Manager in Finance, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.
May 2021	Director, Senior Executive Officer; In charge of Compliance; Deputy General Manager, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.; General Manager in Finance, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.
September 2021	Director, Senior Executive Officer; In charge of Compliance; General Manager, General Affairs & Risk Management Div; In charge of Finance & Liaison, Corporate Planning & Finance Div.
March 2022	Director, Senior Executive Officer; In charge of Compliance; General Manager, General Affairs & Risk Management Div.(to present)

Outside Director
Yuichiro Kato

Career Summary

April 1992	Joined Nichirei Corporation
April 1995	Joined DAIKO ADVERTISING INC.
April 2003	Associate professor of industrial strategy engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Visiting researcher, Business Knowledge Bureau, DAIKO ADVERTISING INC.
January 2015	Member, The Deming Prize Examination Committee, Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (to present)
October 2015	Representative Partner, Brand Design LLC (currently Brand Design Co., Ltd.) Specially-appointed professor, Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology
April 2018	Professor, Vocational Ability Development Institute, Polytechnic University administrated by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Member, The Japan Quality Recognition Prize Examination Committee, Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (to present)
November 2018	Representative Director, Brand Design Co., Ltd. (to present)
June 2019	Professor, Project for Organization for Co-Creation Research and Social Contribution, Nagoya Institute of Technology (to present)
May 2020	Outside Director; Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee of the Company
May 2021	Outside Director (to present)
June 2022	Outside Director, JTEKT CORPORAION (to present)

Director and Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee (full-time)
Yuji Nakayama

Career Summary

March 1983	Joined the Company
June 2010	Director; General Manager, Accounting Div.
June 2012	Executive Officer
June 2013	Director; Executive Officer
March 2017	Director; Executive Officer; General Manager, Human Resources & General Affairs Div.
March 2019	Director; Executive Officer; In charge of Human Resources & General Affairs Div. and audit
May 2019	Director; Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee (full-time; to present)

Director and Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee (full-time)
Koichi Tsukahata

Career Summary

March 1985	Joined the Company
March 2009	Motion Control Div.; General Manager, Yahata Factory
June 2010	Deputy General Manager, Motion Control Div.
March 2013	Trustee; Director, President, YASKAWA ELECTRIC (SHENYANG) CO., LTD.
March 2018	Trustee; In charge of audit
May 2018	Director; Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee (full-time; to present)

Outside Director, Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee
Junko Sasaki

Career Summary

April 1983	Joined IBM Japan Ltd
January 2007	Executive Officer, APAC & Japan Technical Sales Support, IBM Japan Ltd
January 2011	Joined Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. Executive; General Manager, Customer Service & Support
February 2015	Joined WEIC Corporation (currently SALES ROBOTICS Corporation)
April 2015	Director, Vice President, WEIC Corporation (currently SALES ROBOTICS Corporation)
January 2016	Vice President, FireEye, Inc.
December 2016	President & CEO, Sartorius Japan K.K.
May 2018	Outside Director; Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee of the Company (to present)
June 2019	External Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited
June 2020	Outside Director, Hanwa Co.,Ltd. (to present)
September 2020	External Director, Gemini Strategy Group Inc. (to present)
June 2021	External Director; Member of Audit and Supervisory Committee, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (to present)
April 2022	Chief Director, Nagaoka Institute of Design (to present)

Outside Director, Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee
Hideo Tsukamoto

Career Summary

April 2003	Entered the Legal Training and Research Institute, Supreme Court of Japan
October 2004	Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute, Supreme Court of Japan(57th Term); Registered as an Attorney (member of Daini Tokyo Bar Association); Joined Anderson Mori Law Office (currently Anderson Mori & Tomotsune LPC)
November 2010	Worked at Civil Affairs Bureau, the Ministry of Justice (in charge of planning and formulation of Revised Companies Act)
January 2013	Partner, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune LPC (to present)
April 2014	Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo
January 2016	Expert Member, Case Study Committee, The Japan Audit & Supervisory Board Members Association (to present)
December 2017	Member (2nd term), Corporate Governance System (CGS) Workshop, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
June 2018	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, JA MITSUI LEASING, LTD. (to present)
May 2019	Outside Director; Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee of the Company (to present)
August 2019	Member, the Study Group on the Process of the General Meeting of Shareholders in the New Era, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Outside Director, Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee
Toshikazu Koike

Career Summary

April 1979	Joined BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
August 1982	Seconded to Brother International Corporation(U.S.A)
October 1992	Director, Brother International Corporation(U.S.A)
January 2000	Director & President, Brother International Corporation(U.S.A)
June 2004	Director, BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
January 2005	Director & Chairman, Brother International Corporation(U.S.A)
April 2005	Director & Managing Executive Officer, BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
April 2006	Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer, BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
June 2006	Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer, BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
June 2007	Representative Director & President, BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
June 2018	Representative Director & Chairman, BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
June 2020	Outside Director, Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.(to present)
May 2021	Outside Director; Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee of the Company(to present)
June 2022	Director & Chairman, BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.(to present)

Outside Director; Member of Audit
and Supervisory Committee
Kaori Matsuhashi

Career Summary

April 1993	Joined Toyo Information Systems Co., Ltd. (currently TIS Inc.)
October 2002	Joined KPMG Tokyo Office (currently KPMG AZSA LLC)
April 2006	Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
July 2006	Joined Asset Investors Co., Ltd. (currently Merchant Bankers Co., Ltd.)
November 2007	General Manager, Corporate Planning Division, Asset Investors Co., Ltd.
March 2008	Joined MK Capital Management Corporation (currently IDERA Capital Management Ltd.), Executive Officer
May 2009	Established Luminous Consulting Co., Ltd. Representative Director, (to present) Representative, Matsuhashi Kaori Certified Public Accountant Office (to present)
January 2014	External Auditor, NTS Holdings Co., Ltd. (to present)
June 2014	External Director, Spiber Inc. (to present)
June 2017	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Kakaku.com, Inc.
May 2019	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd. (to present)
May 2022	Outside Director; Member of Audit and Supervisory Committee of the Company (to present)

Senior Executive Officer	Michael Stephen Knapek
	Junichi Nakano
	Nobuaki Jinnouchi
	Kenji Ueyama
	Bruno Schnekenburger
	Akinori Urakawa
	Tatsuya Yamada
	Hiroshi Takata
Executive Officer	Masahiko Okura
	Takenori Otsuka
	Yukio Tsutsui
	Ayumi Hayashida
	Michiaki Higuchi
	Ryuta Matsutani
	Shunrin Mizutani
	Yasushi Ichiki
	Manabu Okahisa
	Albert Shiina
	Shinya Araki
	Shoichiro Shimoike