Outside Director


Name and Date of Birth

Akihiro WATANABE
February 18, 1959

Position(s)

Chairperson of the Board of Directors
Vice Chairperson, Nomination Committee
Vice Chairperson, Special Committee

Career Highlights

October 1980: Joined Heiwa Audit Corporation
May 1982: Joined New York office of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (currently KPMG LLP)
July 1990: Partner, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.
July 1994 - March 2002: Representative Director, KPMG Corporate Finance K.K.
April 2002 - present: Representative, Akihiro Watanabe CPA Office
October 2002 - March 2019: Visiting Professor, Kobe University Graduate School of Business Administration
April 2004 - March 2008: Founder, Representative Director and Partner, GCA Corporation
March 2008 - February 2022: Founder and Representative Director, GCA Savvian Group Corporation (currently GCA Corporation)
May 2013 - March 2019: Outside Director, Qualicaps Co., Ltd.
December 2015 – present: Outside Director, Maruho Co., Ltd.
September 2016 - May 2018: Outside Director, FamilyMart UNY Holdings Co., Ltd. (currently FamilyMart Co., Ltd.)
February 2022: Chairman, Managing Director, Chairman of Asia Corporate Finance, Houlihan Lokey K.K.
June 2022 - present: Outside Director of the Company

Number of Company's shares owned by the candidate (hundred shares)

0 (as of March 31, 2022)