Our Management Team

As of June 13, 2024

Directors

Representative Director and Chairman
Kosuke Nishimoto

Representative Director and President
Ryusei Ono

Senior Executive Director	Arata Shimizu
Executive Director	Tomoki Kanatani
Executive Director	Shigetaka Shimizu
Director	Shaochun Xu
Lead Outside Director	Yoichi Nakano
Outside Director	Tomoharu Suseki
Outside Director	Keiko Yano

Composition of the Board of Directors

Founders

Chairman Emeritus,
Second-Era Founder
Tadashi Saegusa

Chairman Emeritus, Second-Era Founder

Tadashi Saegusa

Biography

Graduated from Hitotsubashi University, with a degree in Economics, in 1967. Following a stint working for Mitsui Petrochemicals Industries, he became the first consultant hired by Boston Consulting Group in Japan. After obtaining an MBA from Stanford University; while he was in his 30s he was engaged in turning around unprofitable companies and managed a venture capital firms as President. Since his 40s, he spent 16 years supporting the rehabilitation of many companies undergoing downturns as “Business Turnaround Specialist”. He became President and CEO of MISUMI (currently MISUMI Group Inc.) in 2002. He is also a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School. He has written several books including Strategic Professionals, Management Power in Crisis, Transforming a Company, Management of the V-Shaped Recovery, and others.

Jan 1986

Representative Director of the Board, Saegusa International Co., Ltd.

Jun 2001

Director of the Board, MISUMI Group Inc.

Jun 2002

Representative Director, President and CEO, MISUMI Group Inc.

Oct 2008

Representative Director, Chairman and CEO, MISUMI Group Inc.

Jun 2014

Director, Chairman of the Board, MISUMI Group Inc.

Apr 2018

Senior Chairman / Second-Era Founder

Jul 2021

Chairman Emeritus,
Second-Era Founder (current position)

Principal managerial achievements

・Appointed as President and CEO in 2002. Pursued management reforms and as a result, sales expanded from about 50 billion yen to exceed 300 billion yen- a six-fold expansion.
・Employee numbers increased from 340 people (prior to appointment as CEO) to over 10,000 people globally, transformed into an international company.

Special Advisor and Founder	Hiroshi Taguchi

Executive Officers

Representative Director and Chairman	Kosuke Nishimoto
Representative Director and President	Ryusei Ono
Senior Executive Director and CIO Representative Corporate Officer, Digital Transformation System Platform and Representative Corporate Officer, SCM Operation Platform	Arata Shimizu
Executive Director and Chief Executive in charge of China and Asia Business and President, Asia Business Company	Tomoki Kanatani
Executive Director and President, Japan Business Company	Shigetaka Shimizu
Director and Vice President, China Business Company and Chairperson and General Manager, MISUMI (CHINA) PRECISION MACHINERY TRADING CO., LTD.	Shaochun Xu
Senior Corporate Officer and President, ID Business Company ※ID＝Industrial Digital Manufacturing	Mitsunobu Yoshida
Senior Corporate Officer and President, China Business Company	Toru Arakawa
Senior Corporate Officer and President, Americas Business Company	Ryuji Ohora
Senior Corporate Officer and Representative Corporate Officer, Human Resources ＆ Legal Platform	Takako Sasaki
CFO and Senior Corporate Officer and Representative Corporate Officer, Finance Platform and Representative Corporate Officer, SX Platform	Toru Takanami

Corporate Officers

Vice President, Japan Business Company	Hideka Shoji
Vice President, Japan Business Company and Chief Executive in charge of ME Business ※ME＝Machinery Electronics	Koichi Kawakami
President, OST Business Company	Nobumasa Watanabe
President, Factory-MRO Business Company	Takashi Baba
President, Europe Business Company	Noriaki Murata
Representative Corporate Officer, Production Platform	Takumi Toya
Chief of Headquarters EC Service Development Office	Masatake Sumi
Chief of Headquarters DJ System Promotion Office	Yusuke Kido

Corporate Auditors

Corporate Auditor	Ichiro Otokozawa
Corporate Auditor	Takaaki Wada
Outside Corporate Auditor	Juichi Nozue
Outside Corporate Auditor	Nanako Aono

Corporate Information

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