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 |
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| 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)