Directors & Officers

Shunichi Kito

Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer

Shunichi Kito

April 1980

Joined Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.(“Idemitsu Kosan”)

April 2005

Deputy General Manager of Personnel Department, Idemitsu Kosan

July 2008

Deputy General Manager of Accounting Department, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2011

Executive Officer and General Manager of Accounting Department, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2013

Director, Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of Accounting Department, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2014

Managing Director, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2017

Executive Vice President and Director, Idemitsu Kosan

April 2018

Representative Director & Chief Executive Officer, Idemitsu Kosan

April 2019

Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2022

Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Idemitsu Kosan (to date)

September 2022

President, Petroleum Association of Japan (to date)

Susumu Nibuya

Representative Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Susumu Nibuya

April 1982

Joined Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.(“Idemitsu Kosan”)

June 2008

Managing Director of Idemitsu Engineering Co., Ltd.

April 2011

General Manager of Internal Audit Office, Idemitsu Kosan

April 2013

Executive Officer and General Manager of Corporate Planning Department, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2015

Director Corporate Planning and General Manager of Corporate Planning Department, Idemitsu

June 2017

Managing Director, Idemitsu Kosan

April 2019

Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2020

Representative Director Executive Vice President, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2022

Representative Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Idemitsu Kosan (to date)

Atsuhiko Hirano

Representative Director, Executive Vice President

Atsuhiko Hirano

April 1985

Joined Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. (“Showa Shell”)

September 2002

General Manager, Shizuoka Area, Showa Shell

September 2004

General Manager, Marketing Planning Division, Showa Shell

March 2005

Executive Officer and General Manager, Marketing Planning Division, concurrently serving as General Manager, Retail Sales Division, Showa Shell

March 2006

Director, Showa Shell

March 2009

Corporate Executive Officer, Showa Shell

March 2013

Senior Corporate Executive Officer, Showa Shell

July 2014

Representative Director, President, Solar Frontier K.K.

April 2019

Managing Executive Officer of the Company, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (“Idemitsu Kosan”)

June 2020

Director, Managing Executive Officer, CFO, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2022

Director, Executive Vice President, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2023

Representative Director, Executive Vice President, Idemitsu Kosan (to date)

Noriaki Sakai

Representative Director, Executive Vice President

Noriaki Sakai

April 1985

Joined Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.(“Idemitsu Kosan”)

July 2010

Deputy General Manager of Tokuyama Refinery and Deputy General Manager Of Tokuyama Plant, Idemitsu Kosan

July 2012

Deputy General Manager of Human Resource Department, Health Insurance Union President and Corporate Pension Fund President, Idemitsu Kosan

July 2015

Deputy General Manager of Accounting Department, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2017

General Manager of Accounting Department, Idemitsu Kosan

July 2018

Executive Officer and General Manager of Accounting Department, Idemitsu Kosan

April 2019

Executive Officer and General Manager of Finance Department, Idemitsu Kosan

July 2020

Senior Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2021

Director, Managing Executive Officer, CFO, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2022

Director, Executive Vice President, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2023

Representative Director, Executive Vice President, Idemitsu Kosan (to date)

Masahiko Sawa

Director, Managing Executive Officer

Masahiko Sawa

April 1990

Joined Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.(“Idemitsu Kosan”)

April 2013

Deputy General Manager of Gas Business Department,Idemitsu Kosan

June 2017

General Manager of Technology & Engineering Center,Idemitsu Kosan

April 2019

Executive Officer and General Manager of Hokkaido Refinery, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2021

Senior Executive Officer (in charge of Manufacturing & Technology), Idemitsu Kosan

June 2022

Director, Managing Executive Officer, Idemitsu Kosan (to date)

Masakazu Idemitsu

Director (part-time)

Masakazu Idemitsu

April 2010

Councilor, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Idemitsu Museum of Arts (to date)
Councilor, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Idemitsu Culture and Welfare Foundation

December 2015

Director and Vice President, Nissho Kosan Co., Ltd.(“Nissho Kosan”)

April 2016

Representative Director and President, Coca-Cola Customer Marketing (to date)

April 2019

Director, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (“Idemitsu Kosan”) (to date)
Representative Director and President, Showa Kosan K.K. (to date)

May 2020

Representative Director, MI Power Co.,Ltd. (to date)

October 2020

Representative Director, General Incorporated Association Idemitsu Philosophy Laboratory (to date)

April 2021

Representative Director, General Incorporated Association Idemitsu Kosan Corporate History and Philosophy Laboratory (to date)

Kazunari Kubohara

Director (part-time)

Kazunari Kubohara

December 2008

Registered as an attorney, established Kyuhodo Law Firm (to date)

April 2010

Committee Member, Tokyo Local Third-Party Committee to Check Pension Records, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

April 2011

Delegate, Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association

September 2015

Auditor, General Incorporated Association for Realizing Prescription of Adequate Amount of Anti-Dementia Drugs

June 2016

Outside Statutory Auditor, Class Technology Co., Ltd.

July 2017

Auditor, Medical Corporation Hakueikai Miyake Dental Clinic (to date)

March 2018

Delegate, Japan Federation of Bar Associations

April 2018

Vice Chairperson of the Legal Services Obstruction Countermeasures Committee, Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association

April 2019

Director, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (to date)

Takeo Kikkawa

Outside Director

Takeo Kikkawa

April 1987

Associate Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University School of Business

October 1993

Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

April 1996

Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

April 2007

Professor, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Commerce and Management

January 2013

President, Business History Society of Japan

June 2013

Outside Director, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation

April 2015

Professor, Graduate School of Innovation Studies, Tokyo University of Science (currently,Graduate School of Management, Tokyo University of Science)

June 2017

Director, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (to date)

April 2020

Professor, Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan

April 2021

Vice President, and Professor, Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan (to date)

Yumiko Noda

Outside Director

Yumiko Noda

April 1982

Joined Tokyo Branch, Bank of America Corporation

March 1996

Deputy General Manager, London Branch, the Long- Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd. 
(Head of Structured Finance)

January 2000

Partner, Head of PPP (Public Private Partnership) and Privatization, PwC Financial Advisory Service Co., Ltd. (currently, PwC Advisory LLC) (“PwC”)

June 2007

Deputy Mayor, Yokohama City

January 2011

Partner, Head of PPP and Infrastructure Asia Pacific, PwC

October 2017

President and Representative Director, Veolia Japan K.K. (“Veolia”)

April 2019

Chairman, Administrative Reform Committee, Japan Association of Corporate Executives

June 2020

Vice Chair of the Board of Councilors and Chair of Committee on Environment and Safety, Japan Business Federation Chairman and Representative Director, Veolia (to date)

June 2021

Outside Director, Benesse Holdings, Inc. (to date)
Director, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (to date)

June 2022

Vice Chair of the Board of Councilors and Chair of Committee on Environment, Japan Business Federation

May 2023

Vice Chairs and Chair of Committee on Environment, Japan Business Federation (to date)

June 2023

Outside Director, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (to date)

Maki Kado

Outside Director

Maki Kado

April 1992

Joined NEC Corporation

April 1996

Joined United Feature Syndicate Inc. Japan Branch

May 2000

Joined Microsoft Product Development Inc. (Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.)

April 2004

Joined Microsoft Corporation Inc. (US) Headquarters

July 2013

General Manager of Purchasing, salesforce.com Co., Ltd.

April 2014

Business Manager, Coca-Cola East Japan Co., Ltd.

December 2014

Director, Coca-Cola Business Services Company, Limited Coca-Cola Business Service”)

January 2015

Operating Committee member (Officer), Coca-Cola Cross Enterprise Procurement Group

March 2015

Representative Director and President, Coca-Cola Business Service

August 2015

Representative Director and President, Coca-Cola Bus i ness Sourcing Co., Ltd.

June 2016

Budget Committee Chair (Chief Financial Officer), Coca-Cola Cross Enterprise Procurement Group

April 2017

Executive Officer, Head of Procurement, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc. (“Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan”)

February 2019

Executive Officer, Head of Procurement, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan

June 2019

Executive Officer, Head of Procurement and Head of Executive Business Management, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan

November 2019

Executive Officer, Head of Business Transformation and Head of Procurement, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan

January 2020

Executive Officer, Head of Business Transformation, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan

April 2020

Executive Officer, Executive Business Manager, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Holdings Inc. (“Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Holdings”) (to date)

June 2021

Director, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (to date)

January 2022

Executive Officer, Chief Transformation Officer, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan

January 2023

Executive Officer and Chief Business Management & Sustainability Officer, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan (to date)
Representative Director and Vice President,Coca-Cola Customer Marketing Company, Limited. (“Coca-Cola Customer Marketing”)

April 2023

Representative Director and President, Coca-Cola Customer Marketing (to date)

Jun Suzuki

Outside Director

Jun Suzuki

April 1983

Joined Teijin Limited

April 2011

President, Teijin Holdings Netherlands B.V.

April 2012

Teijin Group Corporate Officer, Teijin Limited

April 2013

Teijin Group Executive Officer, Teijin Limited

April 2014

President and CEO, Representative Director of the Board, Teijin Limited

April 2022

hairperson, Teijin Limited, Member of the Board
Executive Member of the Policy Board, Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) (to date)

June 2022

Outside Director, The Midorikai Co., Ltd. (to date)
Chair of Japan-Thailand Trade and Economic Committee, Japan Business Federation (Keidanren)(to date)

January 2023

ABAC Member (Japan), APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) (to date)

April 2023

 Vice Chairman, Executive Director, Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai)(to date)
Senior Advisor, Member of the Board, Teijin Limited

June 2023

Senior Advisor, Teijin Limited (to date)
Idemitsu Kosan, Co., Ltd. (to date)
Outside Director, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. (to date)

Tsutomu Yoshioka

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Tsutomu Yoshioka

April 1984

Joined Shell Sekiyu K.K

September 2002

General Manager of Hokkaido Branch Office, Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. (“Showa Shell”)

April 2005

Representative Director, President, Shoseki Gas K.K.

July 2008

Representative Director, President, Enessance Holdings Co., Ltd.

March 2011

Executive Officer in charge of Accounting, Finance, and Credit Management, Showa Shell

April 2015

Executive Officer and General Manager of Petroleum Business Division Metropolitan Area Branch, Showa Shell

March 2017

Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Showa Shell

April 2019

Senior Executive Officer, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.(“Idemitsu Kosan”)

June 2021

Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Idemitsu Kosan (to date)

Hidefumi Kodama

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Hidefumi Kodama

April 1987

Joined Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.(“Idemitsu Kosan”)

July 2011

Manager of Finance Management Section, Accounting Department, Idemitsu Kosan

July 2013

Manager of Planning & Coordination Office, Exploration & Production Department 1, and Director,Idemitsu Kosan and General Manager of General Affairs Department, Idemitsu Oil & Gas

April 2015

General Manager of Exploration & Production Planning Department, Idemitsu Kosan

July 2017

General Manager of Public Relations & CSR Affairs Office and in charge of brand strategy,Idemitsu Kosan

April 2018

General Manager of Public Relations Department, and in charge of brand strategy, Idemitsu Kosan

April 2019

General Manager of Coal Business Department, Idemitsu Kosan

April 2021

General Manager of Coal and Energy Solution Department, Idemitsu Kosan

June 2022

Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Idemitsu Kosan (to date)

Taigi Ito

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Taigi Ito

January 1970

Joined Tsuji Audit Corporation (renamed as MISUZU Audit Corporation)

May 1973

Registered as Certified Public Accountant (Registration No. 5095)

February 1989

Representative partner of MISUZU Audit Corporation

July 2004

Deputy Chairman, The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

May 2006

Counsel of MISUZU Audit Corporation

August 2007

Opened Certified Public Accountant Ito Taigi Office (to date)

April 2009

Professor, Graduate School of Accountancy, Waseda University

June 2009

Supervisory Director of The Investment Trusts Association, Japan

October 2010

Supervisory Director of Japan Law Foundation

January 2012

Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

June 2012

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (to date)
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, IT Holdings Corporation (currently, TIS INC.)

June 2014

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

June 2015

Outside Director, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation

September 2018

Outside Director, Koa Shoji Holdings Co.,Ltd (to date)

Yumiko Ichige

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Yumiko Ichige

April 1989

Registered as an attorney (Daini Tokyo Bar Association)
Law Department, IBM Japan, Ltd.

December 2007

Partner, Nozomi Sogo Attorneys at Law (to date)

April 2009

Vice Chairman, Daini Tokyo Bar Association

June 2012

Outside Director, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation

April 2014

Executive Director, Japan Federation of Bar Associations

May 2014

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board member, AEON MALL Co., Ltd.

December 2014

Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee member, SANYO TRADING CO., LTD.

December 2016

Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee member, FOOD & LIFE COMPANIES LTD. (to date)

June 2018

Outside Director, ITOHAM YONEKYU HOLDINGS INC.

June 2018

National Research and Development Agency Council member, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,Transport and Tourism (to date)

January 2019

Information and Communications Council member, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (to date)

March 2020

Outside Director, ASKUL Corporation (to date)

June 2022

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (to date)

Members of the Board

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Audit & Supervisory Board Members

*As of June 30, 2023

Executive Officer

Shunichi Kito

Chief Executive Officer

Susumu Nibuya

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Vietnam Project

Atsuhiko Hirano

Executive Vice President

Assistant to Chief Executive Officer (Resources, Lubricants and LPG)

Noriaki Sakai

Executive Vice President

Assistant to Chief Executive Officer (Chief Financial Officer, Procurement, Public Relations and JPCA) and Head of Safety & Environmental Protection Headquarters and Head of Quality Assurance Headquarters and Head of Procurement Headquarters

Hajime Nakamoto

Senior Managing Executive Officer and President, Advanced Materials Company

Advanced Materials Company (Innovation Strategy Department, Electronic Materials Department, Lithium Battery Material Department, Advanced Materials & Performance Chemicals Department, Bitumen Department, Idemitsu Unitech, and SDS Biotech), and Intellectual Property and Research (Advanced Technology Research Laboratories and Intellectual Property Department)

Soichi Kobayashi

Managing Executive Officer

Chief Digital Officer, Digital & ICT, Power & Renewables Business and Mobility Planning (Digital & ICT Department, Power & Renewables Business Department and Mobility Planning Department)

Masahiko Sawa

Managing Executive Officer

Assistant to Chief Executive Officer (Manufacturing & Technology, Basic Chemicals and Carbon Neutral Transformation), Head of CNX Strategy Headquarters

Kenichi Morishita

Managing Executive Officer

Marketing (Petroleum Marketing Department, Distribution & Operations Department, Apollo Link, Idemitsu Retail Marketing, Idemitsu Energy Solutions, and Idemitsu Credit)

Kenya Maeda

Managing Executive Officer

Integrated Supply & Trading (Integrated Supply & Trading Department, Crude & Global Business Department, Idemitsu International (Asia), and Idemitsu Tanker)

Hiroshi Watanabe

Senior Executive Officer

Representative Director & Chief Executive Officer of Solar Frontier

Junzo Yamamoto

Senior Executive Officer

Manufacturing & Technology (Carbon Neutral Transformation Department, Technology & Engineering Center, Idemitsu Engineering, Showa Yokkaichi Sekiyu, Toa Oil, and Seibu Oil) and General Manager of Manufacturing & Technology Department

Yoshiki Terasaki

Senior Executive Officer

Lubricants Business (Lubricants Department 1, Lubricants Department 2, Idemitsu Lube (China), Idemitsu Lube Asia Pacific, Idemitsu Lubricants America, and Nippon Grease)

Kan Hoshino

Senior Executive Officer

General Affairs and Legal (General Affairs department and Legal Department) and Economic Strategy

Yoshimasa Kokubo

Senior Executive Officer

General Manager of Petroleum Marketing Department

Michiyo Terakami

Executive Officer

Regional Revitalization Business

Mitsuhide Hachiyama

Executive Officer

Regional Revitalization Business and General Manager of Regional Revitalization Business Department

Jun Miki

Executive Officer

Vietnam Project

Minoru Yagyuuda

Fellow

Carbon Neutral Transformation Project and Offshore Wind

Tetsuji Mishina

Executive Officer

General Manager of Tokuyama Complex

Koji Yamagishi

Executive Officer

General Manager of Hokkaido Refinery

Nami Kitamura

Executive Officer

General Manager of Bitumen Department, Advanced Materials Company

Yuzo Yoshida

Executive Officer

General Manager of Coal and Energy Solution Department

Shintaro Ishida

Executive Officer

General Manager of Corporate Planning Department

Jotaro Kobayashi

Executive Officer

General Manager of Lithium Battery Material Department, Advanced Materials Company

Yoshitaka Onuma

Executive Officer

General Manager of Finance & Accounting Department

Koichi Nishimura

Executive Officer

Vice President, Advanced Materials Company

Makoto Shimada

Executive Officer

General Manager of Crude & Global Business Department

Yoshihiko Ota

Executive Officer

General Manager of Aichi Complex

Hiroshi Akiya

Executive Officer

General Manager of Chiba Complex

Motohiro Suzuki

Executive Officer

General Manager of Advanced Technology Research Laboratories

Masanori Abe

Executive Officer

General Manager of Procurement Department

Yoshihiro Fujikata

Executive Officer

Vice President, Advanced Materials Company, and General Manager of  Advanced Materials & Performance Chemicals Department