About

Management Team

(As of March 27, 2012)

Board of Directors

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

Corporate Officers and Senior Corporate Fellow

Chief Executive Officer Hideo Ichikawa
Managing Corporate Officers
Takashi Miyazaki Executive Officer, Petrochemicals Sector,
General Manager, Olefins Division, Petrochemicals Sector
Shunichi Shiraishi Executive Officer, Aluminum Sector
Yasumichi Murata Chief Risk Management Officer; Officer in charge of Human Resources, General Affairs, Legal, Purchasing, CSR offices; Chairman, Risk Management, Corporate Ethics and Security Export Control Committees
Akira Koinuma Chief Technology Officer;
Executive Officer, Production Technology Headquarters;
Chairman, Responsible Care and Safety Measures Committees
Corporate Officers
Yoshikazu Sakai Chief Financial Officer; Officer in charge of Internal Audit, IR & PR, Accounting, Finance, and Information Systems offices; Chairman, IR Committee
Shunji Fukuda Officer in charge of Corporate Strategy and China Offices
Hirokazu Iwasaki Executive Officer, Chemicals Sector
Masakazu Maki Executive Officer, Electronics Sector,
General Manager, Electronics Materials Division, Electronics Sector
Yoshiharu Mizuno Executive Officer, Inorganics Sector
Masaru Amano General Manager, General Affairs Office; Assistant to Director in charge of Legal and CSR  Offices
Masahiro Endo General Manager, Extrusions/Specialty Products Division, Aluminum Sector
Robert C.Whitten President and CEO, Showa Denko Carbon, Inc. Special Assignment;
Officer in charge of Global Marketing
Tetsuo Nakajo Executive Officer, Corporate  Reserch & Development Headquarters
Yoshiyuki Nishimura General Manager, Advanced Battery Materials Department
Atushi Mizutani General Representative in China, General Manager of China Office, and
President of Showa Denko (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Saburo Muto General Manager, Finance Office; Assistant to Director in charge of Accounting Office
Jiro Ishikawa Executive Officer, HD Sector
Keiichi Kamiguchi General Manager, Corporate Strategy Office
Kanji Takasaki Aluminum Sector
Hitoshi Tanaka General Manager, Carbons Division
Tatsuharu Arai Oita Complex Representative, Petrochemicals Sector
Senior Corporate Fellow
Naofumi Kokaji Manager, Alumina Project, Inorganics Sector
Takashi Nakayama
Chemicals Sector, President of Nippon Polytech Corp.