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As of June 29, 2022
Board of Directors
Chairman of the Board
Masakazu Tokura
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: July 10, 1950
1974 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2003 Executive Officer
2006 Managing Executive Officer
2008 Representative Director & Managing Executive Officer
2009 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer
2011 Representative Director & President
2019 Chairman of the Board (current)Important Concurrent Post
2021 Chairman, KEIDANREN (Japan Business Federation)
Representative Director & President
Keiichi Iwata
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: October 11, 1957
1982 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2010 Executive Officer
2013 Managing Executive Officer
2018 Senior Managing Executive Officer
2018 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer
2019 Representative Director & President (current)
Representative Director
Noriaki Takeshita
Essential Chemicals & Plastics Sector, Business Development for a Circular System for Plastics
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: July 23, 1958
1982 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2010 Executive Officer
2013 Managing Executive Officer
2017 Representative Director & Managing Executive Officer
2018 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer (current)Important Concurrent Post
2016 Deputy Chairman, Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company
Representative Director
Masaki Matsui
IT-related Chemicals Sector
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: August 3, 1960
1985 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2013 Executive Officer
2017 Managing Executive Officer
2019 Representative Director & Managing Executive Officer
2021 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer (current)
Representative Director
Kingo Akahori
Energy & Functional Materials Sector
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: August 2, 1957
1983 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2015 Associate Officer
2016 Executive Officer
2018 Managing Executive Officer
2019 Representative Director & Managing Executive Officer
2021 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer (current)
Representative Director
Nobuaki Mito
Health & Crop Sciences Sector
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: August 4, 1960
1985 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2014 Associate Officer
2015 Executive Officer
2018 Managing Executive Officer
2020 Representative Director & Managing Executive Officer
2021 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer (current)Important Concurrent Post
2020 Chairman, Valent U.S.A. LLC
2020 Chairman, Valent BioSciences LLC
Director
Hiroshi Ueda
Research Planning and Coordination, Digital and Data Science Innovation, Process & Production Technology & Safety Planning, Production & Safety Fundamental Technology Center, Engineering, Intellectual Property, Responsible Care, Industrial Technology & Research Laboratory, Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Advanced Materials Development Laboratory, Bioscience Research Laboratory
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: August 5, 1956
1982 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2009 Executive Officer
2011 Managing Executive Officer
2016 Senior Managing Executive Officer
2016 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer
2018 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer
2019 Director & Executive Vice President (current)
Director
Hiroshi Niinuma
General Affairs, External Relations, Legal, Human Resources
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: March 5, 1958
1981 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2010 Executive Officer
2013 Managing Executive Officer
2018 Senior Managing Executive Officer
2018 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer
2022 Director & Executive Vice President (current)
Outside Director
Hiroshi Tomono
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: July 13, 1945
1971 Joined Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (Currently NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION)
1998 Director, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
1999 Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
2003 Senior Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
2003 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
2005 Representative Director & Vice President, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
2005 Representative Director & President, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
2012 Representative Director & President & COO, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (Currently NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION)
2014 Representative Director & Vice Chairman, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
2015 Director & Advisor, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
2015 Advisor, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
2015 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2016 Outside Director, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (current)
2020 Senior Advisor, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION (current)
2020 Outside Director, The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (current)
Outside Director
Motoshige Itoh
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: December 19, 1951
1993 Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
1996 Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
2007 Dean, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
2015 Outside Director, East Japan Railway Company (current)
2016 Professor, Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University
2018 Outside Director, THE SHIZUOKA BANK, LTD. (current)
2018 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2022 Outside Director, JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation (current)
2022 Outside Director, Hagoromo Foods Corporation (current)
Outside Director
Atsuko Muraki
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: December 28, 1955
1978 Joined Ministry of Labour (Currently Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare)
2005 Counsellor for Policy Evaluation, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2006 Deputy Director-General, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2008 Director-General, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2010 Director-General for Policies on Cohesive Society, Cabinet Office
2012 Director-General, Social Welfare and War Victims’ Relief Bureau, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2013 Vice Minister of Health Labour and Welfare, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2015 Retired from Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2016 Outside Director, ITOCHU Corporation (current)
2018 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
Outside Director
Akira Ichikawa
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: November 12, 1954
1978 Joined Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
2007 Executive Officer & General Manager, Corporate Planning Department, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
2008 Director & Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
2010 Representative Director & President, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
2020 Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. (current)
2021 Outside Director, Konica Minolta, Inc. (current)
2022 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
Corporate Auditors
Standing Corporate Auditor
Kunio Nozaki
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: October 29, 1956
1979 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2007 Executive Officer
2009 Managing Executive Officer
2014 Senior Managing Executive Officer
2014 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer
2018 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer
2019 Director
2019 Corporate Auditor (current)
Standing Corporate Auditor
Hiroaki Yoshida
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: March 2, 1956
1980 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2009 General Manager, Internal Audit Dept. (Currently Internal Control and Audit Dept.)
2010 General Manager, Planning & Coordination Office, Petrochemicals & Plastics Sector (Currently Planning & Coordination Office, Essential Chemicals & Plastics Sector)
2012 General Manager, Planning & Coordination Office, Rabigh Project & General Manager, Planning & Coordination Office, Petrochemicals & Plastics Sector
2015 Corporate Auditor (current)
Outside Corporate Auditor
Mitsuhiro Aso
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: June 26, 1949
1975 Prosecutor
2010 Superintending Prosecutor, the Fukuoka High Public Prosecutors Office
2012 Retirement as Prosecutor
2012 Registered as Attorneys (current)
2013 Outside Corporate Auditor, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2019 Outside Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. (current)
Outside Corporate Auditor
Yoshitaka Kato
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: September 17, 1951
1974 Joined Tetsuzo Ota & Co. (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
1978 Registered as a certified public accountant (current)
1998 Representative Patner, Showa Ota & Co. (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
2006 Mnaging Executive Patner, Ernst & Young ShinNihon (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
2008 CEO, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
2014 Retired from Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC
2015 Outside Corporate Auditor, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2015 Outside Corporate Auditor, Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (current)
2016 Outside Corporate Auditor, Sumitomo Corporation (current)
Outside Corporate Auditor
Michio Yoneda
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: June 14, 1949
1973 Joined Bank of Japan
1998 General Manager, Sapporo Branch of Bank of Japan
2000 Retired from Bank of Japan
2000 Executive Director, Osaka Securities Exchange (Currently Japan Exchange Group, Inc.)
2001 Executive Director, Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
2002 Senior Executive Director, Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
2003 President & CEO, Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
2013 Director & Representative Executive Officer, Group COO, Japan Exchange Group, Inc. Director, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.
2015 Resigned as Director & Representative Executive Officer, Group COO, Japan Exchange Group, Inc. Resigned as Director, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.
2018 Outside Director, Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation (current)
2018 Outside Corporate Auditor, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2020 Outside Director, Toyo Tire Corporation (current)
Executive Officers
President
| Keiichi Iwata |
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Executive Vice President
| Hiroshi Ueda | Research Planning and Coordination, Digital and Data Science Innovation, Process & Production Technology & Safety Planning, Production & Safety Fundamental Technology Center, Engineering, Intellectual Property, Responsible Care, Industrial Technology & Research Laboratory, Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Advanced Materials Development Laboratory, Bioscience Research Laboratory |
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| Hiroshi Niinuma | General Affairs, External Relations, Legal, Human Resources |
Senior Managing Executive Officer
| Noriaki Takeshita |
Essential Chemicals & Plastics Sector, Business Development for a Circular System for Plastics |
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| Takashi Shigemori |
Corporate Planning, IT Innovation |
| Masaki Matsui |
IT-related Chemicals Sector |
| Kingo Akahori |
Energy & Functional Materials Sector |
| Nobuaki Mito |
Health & Crop Sciences Sector |
Managing Executive Officer
| Marc Vermeire |
Sumitomo Chemical Agro Europe S.A.S., Sumitomo Chemical Europe S.A./N.V. |
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| Keiichi Sakata |
Sumitomo Chemical Asia Pte Ltd |
| Motoyuki Sakai | Inorganic Materials Div., Specialty Chemicals Div., Advanced Polymers Div., Battery Materials Div. |
| Seiji Takeuchi |
Planning & Coordination Office, Essential Chemicals & Plastics Sector, Responsible Care Dept., Essential Chemicals & Plastics Sector, Basic Materials Div., Industrial Chemicals Div., Essential Chemicals Research Laboratory |
| Naoyuki Inoue |
Procurement, Logistics |
| Keigo Sasaki |
Corporate Communications, Accounting, Finance |
| Kenji Ohno |
Sustainability, Internal Control and Audit, Legal Dept. |
| Shinichiro Nagata |
Ehime Works |
| Yoshizumi Sasaki |
Business Development Office for a Circular System for Plastics, Resin-related Business Development Dept., Polyolefins Div, Automotive Materials Div, MMA Div. |
| Ichiro Kosaka |
Planning & Coordination Office, Energy & Functional Materials Sector, Quality Assurance Office, Energy & Functional Materials Sector |
| Takanari Yamaguchi |
Research Planning & Coordination Dept., Digital and Date Science Innovation Dept., Intellectual Property Dept., Industrial Technology & Research Laboratory, Advanced Materials Development Laboratory |
| Hirokazu Murata |
Oita Works, Misawa Works |
| Koichi Ogino |
Chiba Works |
| Juan Ferreira |
Work related to South American businesses of the Health & Crop Sciences Sector and Valent U.S.A. |
| Shinsuke Shojima |
AgroSolutions Div. – International, Animal Nutrition Div. |
Executive Officer
| Akira Iwasaki |
Planning & Coordination Office, Energy & Functional Materials Sector, Quality Assurance Office, Energy & Functional Materials Sector |
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| Inho Rha |
Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd |
| Akira Nakanishi |
Planning & Coordination Office, IT-related Chemicals Sector, Electronic Materials Div. |
| Masao Shimizu |
Human Resources Dept., Osaka Office Administration Dept. |
| Hiroaki Fujimoto |
AgroSolutions Div. – Japan |
| Kanako Fukuda | Sumitomo Chemical Europe S.A./N.V. |
| Hiroyoshi Mukai |
Planning & Coordination Office, Health & Crop Sciences Sector, Quality Assurance Office, Health & Crop Sciences Sector |
| Takanori Ito |
Process & Production Technology & Safety Planning Dept., Production & Safety Fundamental Technology Center, Responsible Care Dept. |
| Yoshihiro Ino |
IT Innovation Dept. |
| Tetsuo Takahashi |
Planning & Coordination Office,Essential Chemicals & Plastics Sector |
| Tomoyuki Hirayama |
General Affairs Dept., External Relations Dept. |
| Satoshi Honda |
Planning & Coordination Office, IT-related Chemicals Sector, Quality Assurance Office, IT-related Chemicals Sector |
| Takeo Kitayama | Corporate Planning Office |
| Noriaki Oku | Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company |
| Junpei Tsuji | Research Planning Coordination Office |
| Toshihiro Yamauchi | Accounting Dept. |