About Us

Leadership

Directors

  • Takashi Inoue
    Representative Director,
    President and Managing Officer
    1968 Born in 1968
    1991 Joined Recruit Cosmos Co., Ltd.
    (currently Cosmos Initia Co., Ltd.)
    1992 Transferred to Recruit Co., Ltd.
    (currently Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.)
    1995 Founded NEXT HOME Co.
    1997 Established the Company, Representative Director
    2014 Representative Director of Next Wisdom Foundation(current position)
    2018 Representative Director,President and Managing Officer(current position)
    2019 Representaive Director of PEACE DAY(current positon)
  • Takashi Yamada
    Director,
    Managing Officer,
    Head of AI Strategy Office,
    Head of LIFULL HOME'S Department Product Planning #2 Division,
    Head of LIFULL HOME’S Department Management Office
    1973 Born in 1973
    1992 Joined Bab-Hitachi Business Corporation
    1996 Joined Eto Soft Office Ltd.
    2000 Joined the Company
    2010 Managing Officer
    2014 Director, Managing Officer(current position)
    2017 Technology Platform Departments Authorized Representative of Vietnam Creative Consulting Co.,Ltd.(currently LIFULL TECH VITNAM COMPANY LIMITED)(current position)
  • Yuji Ito
    Director,
    Managing Officerr,
    General Manager of LIFULL HOME’S Department Management Office
    1982 Born in 1982
    2006 Joined the Company
    2015 Managing Officer
    2020 Director, Managing Officer(current position)
  • Masato Takahashi
    Outside Director,Independent Officer
    1959 Born in 1959
    1982 Joined Recruit Co.,Ltd.. (currently Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.)
    2007 Joined Rakuten, Inc.
    2011 Managing Executive Officer
    2013 Outside Director of the Company (current position)
    2017 Outside Director of EPARK, Inc.
    2018 Outside Director of WATABE WEDDING CORPORATION
    Outside Director of Fringe81 Co., Ltd.(current position)
    2021 Outside Director of adish Co., Ltd.(current position)
  • Masatada Kobayashi
    Outside Director
    1971 Born in 1971
    1994 Joined Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    1997 Joined MDM, Inc. (currently Rakuten, Inc.)
    2006 Managing Executive Officer (current position)
    2016 Chairman of Taiwan Rakuten Ichiba, Inc. (current position)
    2019 Outside Director of the Company (current position)
  • Ryuichiro Nakao
    Outside Director,
    Independent Officer
    1964 Born in 1964
    1989 Joined Recruit Co., Ltd. (currently Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.)
    2006 Company Partner of Corporate Strategy Office
    2007 Corporate Executive Officer of Recruit Sumai Company
    2013 President and Representative Director of Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd.
    2017 Vice President of Recruit Works Institute, Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Outside Director of TABIKOBO Co. Ltd. (current position)
    2019 CEO & Founder of Nakao Management Institute Inc. (current position)
    Outside Director of the Company (current position)
    2021 Fellow of Hakuhodo DY Holdings Inc. (current position)
  • Kazutaka Okubo
    Outside Director,
    Independent Officer
    1973 Born in 1973
    1995 Joined Century Audit Corporation (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
    1999 Registered as certified public accountant
    2003 Director of ShinNihon Integrity Assurance Inc. (Currently Ernst & Young Sustainability Co., Ltd.)
    2005 Managing Director
    2006 Partner of Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC
    2012 Senior Partner
    2016 Senior Managing Director and General Manager of ERM Department
    2019 President and Representative Director of Okubo Associates Inc. (current position)
    Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC. (current position)
    Outside Director of Sun Frontier Fudousan Co., Ltd. (current position)
    Project Professor of Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University (current position)
    Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of BrainPad Inc. (current position)
    Outside Director of the Company (current position)
    2020 Outside Director of SALA Corporation(current position)
    Outside Director of The Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. (current position)
    Outside Director of Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. (current position)

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

  • Kiyoshi Shishido
    Full–time Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member,
    Independent Officer
    1956 Born in 1956
    1980 Joined Mitsubishi Corporation
    1998 General Manager of Motor Vehicle Dept. of Mitsubishi International Steel Inc. (U.S.)
    2006 Chief Executive Officer of Vitamin C60 BioResearch Corporation
    2007 Specially Appointed Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology
    General Manager of Technology & Business Development Dept., Mitsubishi Corporation
    2011 Member of the Board and Executive Officer in charge of Strategy Planning of Trility Pty Ltd(Australia)
    2016 General Manager in charge of audits of Global Environmental & Infrastructure Business Group of Mitsubishi Corporation
    Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company(full-time) (current position)
  • Takeshi Hanai
    Audit & Supervisory Board Member,
    Independent Officer
    1954 Born in 1954
    1977 Joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited(currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
    2004 Executive Officer and General Manager of Shanghai Branch
    2006 Managing Executive Officer and Head of Asia & Oceania
    2007 Chairman of Mizuho Corporate Bank (China), Ltd.(currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
    2009 Director
    Managing Executive Officer of Rakuten, Inc.
    Corporate Auditor of eBANK Corporation(currently Rakuten Bank, Ltd.)
    Director of Rakuten Securities, Inc.
    2010 Director of bitWallet Inc.(currently Rakuten Edy Inc.)
    Director and Managing Executive Officer of Rakuten, Inc.
    Director of Rakuten Bank, Ltd.
    Director of Airio Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
    2011 Director of Rakuten KC Co., Ltd.(currently Rakuten Card Co., Ltd.)
    Director of Rakuten Insurance Planning, Co., Ltd.
    Adviser of Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd.(currently Nippon Steel Kowa Real Estate Co., Ltd.)
    2012 Adviser of The Senshu Ikeda Bank, Ltd.
    Adviser of Corporate Directions, Inc. (current position)
    2013 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company (current position)
    2014 Outside Director of ASICS Corporation
    Outside Director of Maruwn Corporation
    2015 Outside Director of Nippon Seisen Co., Ltd.(current position)
    2017 Outside Director of TATSUTA Electric Wire and Cable Co., Ltd. (current position)
    2020 Outside Director of geechs inc. (current position)
  • Makiko Nakamori
    Audit & Supervisory Board Member,
    Independent Officer
    1963 Born in 1963
    1987 Joined Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
    1991 Joined Inoue Saito Eiwa Audit Corporation(currently KPMG AZSA LLC)
    1996 Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
    1997 Representative Director of Nakamori CPA offices (current position)
    2000 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Oracle Corporation Japan
    2006 Outside Auditor of istyle Inc. (current position)
    2008 Outside Director of Oracle Corporation Japan
    2011 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Jade Group K.K. (currently Locondo, Inc.)
    Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of M&A Capital Partners Co., Ltd. (current position)
    2013 Outside Director of ITOCHU TechnoSolutions Corporation
    Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company (current position)
    2015 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of TeamSpirit Inc. (current position)
    2019 Outside Member of the Board of ITOCHU Corporation (current position)
  • Kie Matsushima
    Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
    1975 Born in 1975
    2001 Registered with Tokyo Bar Association Associate of Tokiwa Law Office
    2005 Technical Cooperation Expert Development Trainee of Japan International Cooperation Agency (Training in International Cooperation Department of Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice)
    2006 Long-Term Expert in Uzbekistan of Japan International Cooperation Agency
    2010 Senior Consultant of PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V.
    2014 Manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V.
    2015 Manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory LLC
    2017 Associate of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune LPC (current position)
    2019 Outside Auditor of THE KAGOSHIMA BANK, LTD.
    2020 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company (current position)
    2021 Outside Director & Audit and Supervisory Committee of THE KAGOSHIMA BANK, LTD. (current position)

Managing Officers

  • Keizo Tsutsui
    Managing Officer
    1967 Born in 1967
    1990 Joined Merrill Lynch & Co.
    1998 Joined The Boston Consulting Group
    1999 Joined Rakuten, Inc.
    2006 Joined Dream Incubator Inc.
    2011 Joined the Company
    2012 Managing Officer of the Company(current position)
  • Yukihiro Hada
    Managing Officer
    1976 Born in 1976
    2005 Joined the Company
    2015 Managing Officer of the Company(current position)
  • Hidekazu Fukuzawa
    Managing Officer
    1979 Born in 1979
    2002 Joined iSLE Co., Ltd. (currently GMO CLOUD K.K.)
    2007 Joined the Company
    2019 Managing Officer of the Company(current position)
  • Kohei Kawasaki
    Managing Officer
    1981 Born in 1981
    2017 Joined the Company
    2018 Managing Officer of the Company(current position)
  • Tsubasa Nagasawa
    Managing Officer
    1985 Born in 1985
    2008 Joined the Company
    2021 Managing Officer of the Company(current position)