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As of July 1, 2019
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.
1998 General Manager, Planning & Coordination Office,Fine Chemicals Sector
2000 General Manager, Corporate Planning & Coordination Office
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)
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.
2004 General Manager, Planning & Coordination Office, IT-related Chemicals Sector
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
Ray Nishimoto
Health & Crop Sciences Sector
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: April 23, 1957
1980 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2006 General Manager, Planning & Coordination Office,
Agricultural Chemicals Sector
2009 Executive Officer
2011 Managing Executive Officer
2013 Representative Director & Managing Executive Officer
2015 Representative Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer
2019 Representative Director & Executive Vice President (current)Important Concurrent Post
2010 Chairman, Vector Health International Ltd. (current)
2013 Chairman, Valent U.S.A. LLC (current)
2013 Chairman, Valent BioSciences LLC (current)
Representative Director
Noriaki Takeshita
Rabigh Project, Petrochemicals & Plastics Sector
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: July 23, 1958
1982 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2005 Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company
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 (current)
Representative Director
Masaki Matsui
IT-related Chemicals Sector, PLED Business Planning Office, Electronic Devices Development Center
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: August 3, 1960
1985 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2011 General Manager, Planning & Coordination Office, IT-related Chemicals Sector
2013 Executive Officer
2017 Managing Executive Officer
2019 Representative Director & Managing Executive Officer (current)Important Concurrent Post
2017 Chairman, Sumika Technology Co., Ltd. (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.
2009 General Manager, Battery Materials Division
2015 Associate Officer
2016 Executive Officer
2018 Managing Executive Officer
2019 Representative Director & Managing Executive Officer (current)
Director
Hiroshi Ueda
Research Planning and Coordination, Digital and Data Science Innovation, Process & Production Technology & Safety Planning, Production & Safety Fundamental Technology Center, 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.
2006 Director, Process & Production Technology Center
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 (current)
Director
Hiroshi Niinuma
General Affairs, Legal, CSR, Internal Control and Audit, Human Resources, Osaka Office Administration, Corporate Communications, Procurement, Logistics
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: March 5, 1958
1981 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2009 General Manager, General Affairs Dept.
2010 Executive Officer
2013 Managing Executive Officer
2018 Senior Managing Executive Officer
2018 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer (current)Important Concurrent Post
2017 Outside Director, Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd. (current)
Director
Takashi Shigemori
Corporate Business Development, Corporate Planning, IT Innovation, Accounting, Finance
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: October 3, 1958
1983 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2010 Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company
2012 Executive Officer
2016 Managing Executive Officer
2019 Senior Managing Executive Officer
2019 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer (current)Important Concurrent Post
2016 Director, Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (current)
2017 President, Japan-Singapore Petrochemicals Co., Ltd. (current)
Director (Outside Director)
Koichi Ikeda
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Career Summary
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Birth Date: April 21, 1940
1963 Joined Asahi Breweries, Ltd.
2002 Representative Director & President & COO, Asahi Breweries, Ltd.
2006 Representative Director & Chairman & CEO, Asahi Breweries, Ltd.
2010 Advisor, Asahi Breweries, Ltd.
2011 Outside Corporate Auditor, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2011 Advisor, Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. (current)
2015 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
Director (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.
2005 Representative Director & President, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
2012 Representative Director & President & COO, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
2014 Representative Director & Vice Chairman, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
2015 Director & Advisor, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
2015 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
2015 Advisor, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (present Nippon Steel Corporation) (current)
2016 Outside Director, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (current)
Director (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 (current)
2016 Outside Corporate Auditor, Hagoromo Foods Corporation (current)
2018 Outside Director, The Shizuoka Bank, Ltd. (current)
2018 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)
Director (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 of Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2006 Deputy Director-General, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau of Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2008 Director-General, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau of 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 of Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
2013 Vice Minister, Health Labour and Welfare of 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)
2019 Outside Director, Sompo Holdings, Inc. (current)
Corporate Auditors
Standing Corporate Auditor
| Kunio Nozaki |
＜Career Summary＞ 1979 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. |
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| Hiroaki Yoshida |
＜Career Summary＞ 1980 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. |
Outside Corporate Auditor
| Mitsuhiro Aso |
＜Career Summary＞ 1975 Prosecutor |
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| Yoshitaka Kato |
＜Career Summary＞ 1978 Registered as a certified public accountant (current) |
| Michio Yoneda |
＜Career Summary＞ 1973 Joined Bank of Japan |
Executive Officers
President
| Keiichi Iwata |
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Executive Vice President
| Ray Nishimoto | Health & Crop Sciences Sector |
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| Hiroshi Ueda | Research Planning and Coordination, Digital and Data Science Innovation, Process & Production Technology & Safety Planning, Production & Safety Fundamental Technology Center, Intellectual Property, Responsible Care, Industrial Technology & Research Laboratory, Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Advanced Materials Development Laboratory, Bioscience Research Laboratory |
Senior Managing Executive Officer
| Noriaki Takeshita | Rabigh Project, Petrochemicals & Plastics Sector |
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| Hiroshi Niinuma | General Affairs, Legal, CSR, Internal Control and Audit, Human Resources, Osaka Office Administration, Corporate Communications, Procurement, Logistics |
| Takashi Shigemori |
Corporate Business Development, Corporate Planning, IT Innovation, Accounting, Finance |
Managing Executive Officer
| Masaki Matsui |
IT-related Chemicals Sector, PLED Business Planning Office, Electronic Devices Development Center |
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| Kingo Akahori |
Energy & Functional Materials Sector |
| Marc Vermeire |
Sumitomo Chemical Europe S.A./N.V., Special mission related to the Corporate Business Development Dept. and the Corporate Planning Dept. |
| Kazuyuki Nuki |
AgroSolutions Div. - Japan, Environmental Health Div. |
| Keiichi Sakata |
Corporate Planning Dept., IT Innovation Dept. |
| Motoyuki Sakai | Sumitomo Chemical Asia Pte Ltd |
| Yoshiaki Oda |
Corporate Business Development Dept., Intellectual Property Dept. |
| Nobuaki Mito |
Health & Crop Sciences Sector Planning & Coordination Office, Pharmaceutical Chemicals Div., Health & Crop Sciences Research Laboratory |
| Soji Sakamoto |
Basic Materials Div., Industrial Chemicals Div., Resin-related Business Development Dept., Polyolefins Div., Automotive Materials Div. |
| Yoshihiro Miyoshi |
Digital and Data Science Innovation Dept., Process & Production Technology & Safety Planning Dept., Production & Safety Fundamental Technology Center, Responsible Care Dept. |
Executive Officer
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Atsuko Hirooka |
Environmental Health Div., Animal Nutrition Div. |
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| Seiji Takeuchi | Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company |
| Andrew Lee | Valent U.S.A. LLC, Valent BioSciences LLC |
| Naoyuki Inoue | Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company |
| Yasuaki Sasaki |
Inorganic Materials Div., Advanced Polymers Div. |
| Keigo Sasaki |
Corporate Communications Dept., Accounting Dept., Finance Dept. |
| Kenji Ohno |
General Affairs Dept., Legal Dept., CSR Dept., Internal Control and Audit Dept. |
| Shinichiro Nagata |
Ehime Works |
| Yoshizumi Sasaki | Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company |
| Ichiro Kosaka |
Energy & Functional Materials Sector Planning & Coordination Office, Specialty Chemicals Div. |
| Masaya Naito | Procurement Dept., Logistics Dept. |
| Takanari Yamaguchi | Optical Materials Div. |
| Akira Iwasaki |
Energy & Functional Materials Sector Planning & Coordination Office |
| Hirokazu Murata |
Oita Works, Misawa Works |
| Isao Kurimoto |
Research Planning and Coordination Dept., Digital and Data Science Innovation Dept., Industrial Technology & Research Laboratory, Advanced Materials Development Laboratory, PLED Business Planning Office |
| Koichi Ogino |
Chiba Works |
| Kimitoshi Umeda |
Health & Crop Sciences Sector Quality Assurance Office, AgroSolutions Div. – International |
| Inho Rha |
Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd |
| Akira Nakanishi |
IT-related Chemicals Sector Planning & Coordination Office |
| Masao Shimizu |
Human Resources Dept., Osaka Office Administration Dept. |