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)
    2021 Representative Director of Nasucon Valley Council (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 and Head of HOME’S Business Department, Rental and Sale Divisions
    2018 Managing Officer, Deputy General Manager of LIFULL HOME'S Department and Head of Sale and New UX Development Divisions
    2019 Managing Officer and General Manager of LIFULL HOME’S Department (current position)
  • Takashi Yamada
    Director,
    Managing Officer,
    General Manager of Business Development Department, LIFULL HOME'S Business Headquarters,
    Head of AI Strategy Office
    1973 Born in 1973
    1992 Joined Bab-Hitachi Business Corporation (currently Hitachi Information Engineering Ltd.)
    1996 Joined Eto Soft Office Ltd.
    2000 Joined the Company
    2010 Managing Officer, Deputy General Manager of HOME'S Business Department and Head of Product Development Division
    2014 Director, Managing Officer and General Manager of HOME'S Business Department
    2017 Director, Managing Officer, General Manager of LIFULL HOME'S Business and LIFULL Technology Platform Departments Authorized Representative of Vietnam Creative Consulting Co., Ltd. (currently LIFULL TECH VIETNAM COMPANY LIMITED) (current position)
    2018 Director, Managing Officer, General Manager of LIFULL Technology Platform Department and Head of AI Strategy Office
    2019 Director, Managing Officer, Head of LIFULL HOME'S Department Product Management Office and AI Strategy Office
    2020 Director, Managing Officer, Head of AI Strategy Office and Head of LIFULL HOME'S Department Product Planning #2 Division
    2021 Director, Managing Officer, Head of AI Strategy Office, Head of LIFULL HOME'S Department Product Planning #2 Division and General manager and Head of LIFULL HOME'S Department Management Office (current position)
  • Masatada Kobayashi
    Outside Director
    1971 Born in 1971
    1994 Joined Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    1997 Joined MDM, Inc. (currently Rakuten Group, 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. (currently Recruit 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)
    2022 Outside Director of ZUU Co., Ltd. (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)
    Representative Director and President of SS Dnaform Co., Ltd. (current position)
  • KIMURA Naonori
    Outside Director,
    Independent Officer
    1968 Born in 1968
    1988 Founded a venture company
    1998 Solution specialist at NCR Japan, Ltd.
    2001 Consultant at Towers Perrin Tokyo Office
    2004 Manager of Arthur D. Little Japan-Tokyo
    2007 Director of Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.
    2012 Partner and Managing Director (current position)
    2013 Professor at Graduate School of Management of GLOBIS University (current position)
    2016 Executive Officer of IGPI (Shanghai) Ltd.
    2017 Outside Director of Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Outside Director of Molten Corporation (current position)
    2019 Chairman and President of IGPI (Shanghai) Ltd. (current position)
    2021 Outside Director of Relia, Inc. (current position)
    2022 Adjunct Professor of Graduate School of Leadership and Innovation of Shinzenkan University (current position)
    Outside Director of the Company (current position)
  • SHIMIZU Tetsuro
    Outside Director,
    Independent Officer
    1967 Born in 1967
    1990 Joined The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited (currently Shinsei Bank, Limited)
    2001 Joined IY Bank Co., Ltd. (currently Seven Bank, Ltd.)
    2006 Joined Rakuten, Inc. (currently Rakuten Group, Inc.)
    2009 Seconded to bitWallet Inc. (currently Rakuten Edy Inc.)
    2012 Joined Shinsei Bank, Limited, General Manager of Retail Business Division
    2015 Executive Officer and Head of Retail Banking Sub-Group of Individual Group
    2016 Managing Executive Officer, Head of Individual Business and in charge of Group Business Strategy (Secondary)
    2019 Chairman of the Board of Financial Japan Co., Ltd.
    Representative Director, President and CEO of APLUS FINANCIAL Co., Ltd.
    Representative Director and President, President and Executive Officer and CEO of APLUS CO., Ltd.
    Representative Director, President and CEO of APLUS Personal Loan Co., Ltd.
    2021 Chief Officer, Head of Individual Business Unit, Senior Officer of Group Corporate Planning and Finance and in charge of sustainability planning of Group Corporate Planning Division of Shinsei Bank, Limited
    Representative Director, President and CEO of Shinsei Financial Co., Ltd.
    Outside Director of Kotora Co., Ltd. (current position)
    2022 Group Chief Sustainability Officer of Shinsei Bank, Limited
    Representative Partner of T2PLUS G.K. (current position)
    Senior Executive Director of Strategic Planning Office of Monex Group, Inc. (current position)
    Outside Director of the Company (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)
  • 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.
    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
    2019 Outside Auditor of THE KAGOSHIMA BANK, LTD.
    2020 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company (current position)
    2021 Special Counsel of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (current position)
    Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) of THE KAGOSHIMA BANK, LTD. (current position)
  • NISHIGAKI Atsushi
    Audit & Supervisory Board Member,
    Independent Officer
    1961 Born in 1961
    1984 Joined The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited (currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
    2004 Deputy General Manager of Business Solution Department of Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
    2009 General Manager of Takadanobaba Branch
    2011 General Manager of Marunouchi-Chuo Corporate Department
    2013 Adviser of Shibuya-Chuo Division No.2
    Director and General Manager of Planning Division of OHBA Co., Ltd.
    2016 Managing Director, CFO and General Manager of Planning Division
    2020 Managing Director and in charge of internal control
    2022 Outside Director of Japan Urban Planning Co., Ltd. (current position)
    Outside Director of Kinki Toshi-Seibi Co., Ltd. (current position)
    Adviser in charge of corporate planning at Tokyo Urban Planning Development Corporation (current position)
    Outside Director of the Company (current position)

Managing Officers

  • 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)