Directors & Senior Management

As of July 1, 2024

Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board

  • Masakazu Tokura

Masakazu Tokura

Career Summary

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

Keiichi Iwata

Career Summary

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

  • Hiroshi Ueda

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

Career Summary

Birth Date: August 5, 1956

1982 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2008 Associate Officer
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 
2024 Representative Director & Executive Vice President (current)

Director

  • Hiroshi Niinuma

Hiroshi Niinuma

General Affairs, External Relations, Legal, Sustainability, Human Resources, Osaka Office Administration

Career Summary

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)

Important Concurrent Post
2024 Director, Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. 

 

Director

  • Noriaki Takeshita

Noriaki Takeshita

Corporate Planning, IT Innovation

Career Summary

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
2023 Senior Managing Executive Officer
2024 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer (current)

Important Concurrent Post
2016 Deputy Chairman, Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company

Outside Director

  • Hiroshi Tomono

Hiroshi Tomono

Career Summary

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

Motoshige Itoh

Career Summary

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
2016 Professor, Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University 
2018 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2022 Outside Director, JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation (current)
2022 Outside Director, Hagoromo Foods Corporation (current)
2022 Outside Director, Shizuoka Financial Group, Inc. (current)

Outside Director

  • Atsuko Muraki

Atsuko Muraki

Career Summary

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
2018 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

Outside Director

  • Akira Ichikawa

Akira Ichikawa

Career Summary

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)

Outside Director

  • Yumiko Noda

Yumiko Noda

Career Summary

Birth Date: January 26, 1960

1982 Joined Bank of America Corporation Tokyo Branch
1996 Deputy General Manager (Head of Structured Finance Department), London Branch, The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited
2000 Partner (Head of PPP (Public Private Partnership) and Privatization), PwC Financial Advisory Services Co., Ltd. (Currently PwC Advisory LLC)
2007 Deputy Mayor, Yokohama City
2011 Partner (Head of PPP and Infrastructure Asia-Pacific), PwC Advisory Co., Ltd. (Currently PwC Advisory LLC)
2017 President and Representative Director, Veolia Japan K.K. (Currently Veolia Japan GK)
2020 Chairman and Representative Director, Veolia Japan GK(current)
2023 Outside Director, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (current)
2024 Outside Director, East Japan Railway Company (current)
2024 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member

  • Kunio Nozaki

Kunio Nozaki

Career Summary

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 Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member (current)

Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member

  • Hironobu Nishi

Hironobu Nishi

Career Summary

Birth Date: August 3, 1965

1988 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2011 General Manager, CSR Office 
2012 Seconded to Sumitomo Chemical (China) Co., Ltd.
2018 General Manager, Animal Nutrition Div.
2023 Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member (current)

Audit & Supervisory Board Member 

  • Mitsuhiro Aso

Mitsuhiro Aso

Career Summary

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 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2019 Outside Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. (current)

Audit & Supervisory Board Member 

  • Yoshitaka Kato

Yoshitaka Kato

Career Summary

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 Managing Executive Partner, 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 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2024 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (current)

Audit & Supervisory Board Member 

  • Michio Yoneda

Michio Yoneda

Career Summary

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 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2020 Outside Director, Toyo Tire Corporation (current)

Executive Officers

President

Keiichi Iwata

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
Hiroshi Niinuma General Affairs, External Relations, Legal, Sustainability, Human Resources, Osaka Office Administration

Senior Managing Executive Officer

Noriaki Takeshita

Corporate Planning, IT Innovation

Masaki Matsui

Energy & Functional Materials Sector, IT-related Chemicals Sector

Nobuaki Mito

Health & Crop Sciences Sector

Seiji Takeuchi

Essential Chemicals & Plastics Sector, Business Development for Circular Carbon Economy

Managing Executive Officer

Naoyuki Inoue

Sumitomo Chemical Asia Pte Ltd

Keigo Sasaki

Corporate Communications, Accounting, Finance

Kenji Ohno

Internal Control and Audit, Procurement, Logistics, Legal Dept.

Takanari Yamaguchi

Research Planning and Coordination Dept., Digital and Date Science Innovation Dept., Intellectual Property Dept., Industrial Technology & Research Laboratory, Environmental  Health  Science  Laboratory, Advanced Materials Development Laboratory, Bioscience Research Laboratory

Hirokazu Murata

Ehime Works

Koichi Ogino

Process & Production Technology & Safety Planning Dept., Production & Safety Fundamental Technology Center, Engineering Dept., Responsible Care Dept.

Juan Ferreira

AgroSolutions Div. – International

Shinsuke Shojima

AgroSolutions Div. – International, Environmental  Health  Div., Animal Nutrition Div.

Akira Nakanishi

Planning & Coordination Office, IT-related Chemicals Sector, Quality Assurance Office, IT-related Chemicals Sector

Masao Shimizu

Human Resources Dept., Osaka Office Administration Dept.

Hiroaki Fujimoto

AgroSolutions Div. – Japan

Kanako Fukuda

Sustainability Dept.

Hiroyoshi Mukai

Planning & Coordination Office, Energy & Functional Materials Sector

Satoshi Honda

Electronic Materials Div., SCIOCS Div., Ibaraki Works

Executive Officer

Yoshihiro Ino

Planning & Coordination Office, Essential Chemicals & Plastics Sector

Tetsuo Takahashi

Planning & Coordination Office, Rabigh Business, Essential Materials Div.

Tomoyuki Hirayama

General Affairs Dept., External Relations Dept.

Takeo Kitayama Business Development Office for Circular Carbon Economy, Resin-related Business Development Dept., Polyolefins Div., Automotive Materials Div., MMA Div.
Noriaki Oku Chiba Works
Junpei Tsuji Research Planning and Coordination Dept.
Toshihiro Yamauchi Accounting Dept.
Kyoko Odawara Environmental Health Science Laboratory
Shinichi Takemura Optical Materials Div., IT-related Chemicals Research Laboratory
Tadashi Katayama AgroSolutions Div. – International
Sawa Matsubara Finance Dept.
Masao Inoue AgroSolutions Div. – Japan, Pharma Solutions Div.
Jongchan Lee Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd.
Kazunori Itabashi Planning & Coordination Office, Health & Crop Sciences Sector
Yuji Kato Corporate Planning Office, Business Development
Shigenori Saito Corporate Planning Office, Strategic Planning