Our Management Team

As of October 1, 2025

Directors

Representative Director and Chairman
Kosuke Nishimoto

Representative Director and President
Ryusei Ono

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

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

Supervising Officer

Chairman and Representative of HL Platform	Kosuke Nishimoto
President	Ryusei Ono
Senior Executive Corporate Officer, CIO, and Representative of Newton Global Development Center	Arata Shimizu
Senior Executive Corporate Officer	Tomoki Kanatani
Senior Executive Corporate Officer	Shigetaka Shimizu
Senior Executive Corporate Officer	Toru Arakawa

Executive Officers

Senior Corporate Officer Representative of China Region and Representative of Asia Region	Shaochun Xu
Senior Corporate Officer President of ID Business Company and Chairman of Fictiv Inc.	Mitsunobu Yoshida
Senior Corporate Officer, CFO, Representative of Finance Platform	Toru Takanami
Senior Corporate Officer President of Dayton Lamina Business Company and Representative of Americas Region	Ryuji Ohora
Corporate Officer Representative of Production Platform	Takumi Toya
Corporate Officer Representative of Operational Excellence	Hideka Shoji
Corporate Officer President of Factory-MRO Business Company	Takashi Baba
Corporate Officer Representative of Digital Services Global Development Center	Koichi Kawakami
Corporate Officer President of Distribution and Services Business Company and Representative of Gateway Global Development Center	Masatake Sumi
Corporate Officer President of OST Business Company	Nobumasa Watanabe
Corporate Officer Representative of Rapid Manufacturing Global Development Center	Yusuke Kido
Corporate Officer Representative of Europe Region	Noriaki Murata
Corporate Officer Representative of DJ System Global Development Center	Tomohiro Yamamoto
Corporate Officer President & CEO of Fictiv Inc.	David Evans
Corporate Officer Representative of AI Global R&D Center and CXO of Fictiv Inc.	Nathan Evans
Corporate Officer President of Frontier Business Company	Jinwook Lee
Corporate Officer President of Die & Mold Business Company	Yusuke Miyamoto
Corporate Officer President of Mechatronics Business Company	Hitoshi Ura
Corporate Officer Representative of Enterprise Tech Platform	Akira Rikita

Corporate Auditors

Corporate Auditor	Ichiro Otokozawa
Corporate Auditor	Takaaki Wada
Outside Corporate Auditor	Nanako Aono
Outside Corporate Auditor	Shizuyo Ichikawa

Corporate Information

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