Management Team

Management Team

(As of March 27, 2013)

Board of Directors

Representative Director, Chairman of the Board Kyohei Takahashi
Representative Director,President Hideo Ichikawa
Directors
Akira Koinuma Yoshikazu Sakai
Shunji Fukuda Hirokazu Iwasaki
Masaru Amano
Tomofumi Akiyama(Outside Director)
Akiyoshi Morita(Outside Director)  
Standing Statutory Auditors
Ichiro Nomura
Akira Sakamoto
Auditors
Hiroyuki Tezuka(Outside Auditor) Yukio Obara(Outside Auditor) Kiyomi Saito(Outside Auditor)

Corporate Officers and Senior Corporate Fellow

Chief Executive Officer Hideo Ichikawa
Managing Corporate Officers
Takashi Miyazaki General Manager, Petrochemicals Division and Olefins Department
Shunichi Shiraishi Officer in charge of Aluminum Rolled Products, Aluminum Specialty Components, and Aluminum Can divisions
Akira Koinuma Chief Technology Officer;
Officer in charge of Production Technology, Energy and Electricity, SPS Innovation, and CSR departments;
Chairman, Safety Measures Committee
Corporate Officers
Yoshikazu Sakai Chief Financial Officer;
Officer in charge of Finance & Accounting and Information Systems departments
Shunji Fukuda Officer in charge of Industrial Gasses, Basic Chemicals, and Corporate Strategy departments
Hirokazu Iwasaki Officer in charge of complex and plants;
(Oita Complex, and Kawasaki, Higashinagahara, Tokuyama, Isesaki, Tatsuno, Yokohama, Shiojiri, Chichibu, Omachi,Oyama, and Kitakata plants)
Yoshiharu Mizuno Officer in charge of Ceramics and Carbons divisions
Masaru Amano Chief Risk Management Officer;
Officer in charge of Internal Audit, Legal & Intellectual Property, General Affairs & Human Resources, and Purchasing & SCM departments;
Chairman, Security Export Control Committee
Robert C.Whitten President and CEO, Showa Denko Carbon, Inc. ;
Assistant to President, in charge of special assignment matters (in charge of Global Marketing)
Tetsuo Nakajo Officer in charge of Corporate R&D Department;
General Manager, Business Development Center
Yoshiyuki Nishimura Officer in charge of Electronic Chemicals, Functional Chemicals, Electronics Materials divisions, and Advanced Battery Materials Department
Atushi Mizutani General Representative in China;
General Manager, China Office, Corporate Strategy Department;
President of Showa Denko (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Saburo Muto General Manager, Finance & Accounting Department
Jiro Ishikawa General Manager, HD Division
Keiichi Kamiguchi General Manager, Corporate Strategy Department
Kanji Takasaki Assistant to President in charge of special assignment matters;
Executive vice President of Keihin Termal Technology Co., Ltd.
Hitoshi Tanaka General Manager, Carbons Division
Tatsuharu Arai Oita Complex Representative
Nobuhiko Kawamura
General Manager, Electronics Materials Division
Jun Tanaka General Manager, Advanced Battery Materials Department;
President, Showa Denko Packaging Co., Ltd.
Kohei Morikawa
General Manager, Electronic Chemicals Division
Senior Corporate Fellow
Takashi Nakayama
Assistant to President, in charge of new business creation relating to chemicals