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Leadership

*As of December 31, 2023

Directors
Audit & Supervisory Board Members
Managing Officers

Directors

Representative Directors

INOUE Takashi
- Representative Director, Chairperson
ITO Yuji
- Representative Director
- Managing Officer
- General Manager and Head of LIFULL HOME'S Business Department

Directors

SHISHIDO Kiyoshi
- Director
- LIFULL CONNECT CEO
SHIMIZU Tetsuro
- Director
- Representative Director, President and CEO of LIFULL Financial Co., Ltd.
YAMADA Takashi
- Director
- Managing Officer
- Head of Group Data Division

Outside Directors

KOBAYASHI Masatada
- Outside Director
Independent Officer

NAKAO Ryuichiro
- Outside Director
Independent Officer

OKUBO Kazutaka
- Outside Director
Independent Officer

KIMURA Naonori
- Outside Director

Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Full–time Audit & Supervisory Board Members

OHSUMI Shoko
- Full–time Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Independent Officer

NAKAMORI Makiko
- Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
MATSUSHIMA Kie
- Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Independent Officer

NISHIGAKI Atsushi
- Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

More Details

Refer to our Corporate Governance Page for more details on governance.

Managing Officers

Managing Officers

HADA Yukihiro
- Managing Officer
- CPO (Chief People Officer)
- General Manager of Human Resources Department
FUKUZAWA Hidekazu
- Managing Officer
- CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
- General Manager of Group Company Business Development Department
KAWASAKI Kohei
- Managing Officer
- CCO (Chief Creative Officer)
- General Manager of Creative Department
- Assistant Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division
- Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division Marketing Department
NAGASAWA Tsubasa
- Managing Officer
- CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
- General Manager of Technology Department
- Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division Innovation Development Office
- Group Data Division

Leadership Details

Detailed information on the skills and qualifications of our Management

Representative Director

INOUE Takashi

Representative Director
Chairperson

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: Trovit Search, S.L.U. Chairperson (current position)
2016: Director of Japan Association of New Economy (current position)
2018: Representative Director, President and Managing Officer
Councilor for the LIFULL Foundation (Currently Well-Being for Planet Earth Foundation) (current position)
2019: Representative Director of PEACE DAY (current positon)
Mitula Group Limited Board member (current positon)
LIFULL CONNECT, S.L.U. Board member (current positon)
2021: Representative Director of Nasucon Valley Council (current positon)
2023: Representative Director and Chairperson of the Company (current position)
Representative Director of NPO PEACE DAY (current position)

Representative Director

ITO Yuji

Representative Director
Managing Officer
General Manager and Head of LIFULL HOME'S Business Department

1982: Born in 1982
2006: Joined the Company
2015: Managing Officer
2020: Director, Managing Officer (current position)
2023: Representative Director, President and Managing Officer (current position)

Director

SHISHIDO Kiyoshi

Director
LIFULL CONNECT CEO

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
2007: 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
2016: Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company(full-time)
2023: Director of the Company (current position)

Director

SHIMIZU Tetsuro

Director
Representative Director, President and CEO of LIFULL Financial Co., Ltd.

1967: Born in 1967
1990: Joined The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited (currently SBI 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 (currently SBI 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 (currently SBI 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 (currently SBI 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
2023: Representative Director, President and CEO of LIFULL Financial Co., Ltd. (current position)
Director of the Company (current position)

Director

YAMADA Takashi

Director
Managing Officer
Head of Group Data Division

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)
2023: Director of LIFULL TECH MALAYSIA SDN. BHD. (current position)

Outside Director

KOBAYASHI Masatada

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)

Outside Director

NAKAO Ryuichiro

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)
2021: Fellow of Hakuhodo DY Holdings Inc.
2022: Outside Director of ZUU Co.,Ltd.(current position)

Outside Director

OKUBO Kazutaka

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
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)
President and Representative Director of SS Dnaform Co., Ltd. (current position)

Outside Director

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.
2022: Adjunct Professor of Graduate School of Leadership and Innovation of Shinzenkan University (current position)
Outside Director of the Company (current position)

Full–time Audit & Supervisory Board Member

OHSUMI Shoko

Full–time Audit & Supervisory Board Member

1996: Joined Igawa Audit Corporation
1997: Joined Pasona Inc.
2008: Joined the Company
2009: General Manager of Administration Division and Financial Department
2014: Head of the Internal Audit Office
2018: General Manager of Internal Control
2019: General Manager of Internal Control and Head of the Internal Audit Office
2023: Audit & Supervisory Board Member (full-time) (current position)

* The name on the family register is ARAI Shoko

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

NAKAMORI Makiko

Outside 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.
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.
2016: Auditor of Japan Basketball Association (current position)
2019: Outside Member of the Board of ITOCHU Corporation (current position)
2023: Auditor of National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan (current position)

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

MATSUSHIMA Kie

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. (current position)
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)

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

NISHIGAKI Atsushi

Outside 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.
Outside Director of Kinki Toshi-Seibi Co., Ltd.
Adviser in charge of corporate planning at Tokyo Urban Planning Development Corporation (current position)
Outside Director of the Company (current position)
2023: Executive Adviser of OHBA CO.,LTD. (current position)
Substitute Auditor of OHBA CO.,LTD. (current position)

Managing Officer

HADA Yukihiro

Managing Officer
CPO (Chief People Officer)
General Manager of Human Resources Department

1976: Born in 1976
2005: Joined the Company
2015: Managing Officer of the Company (current position)

Managing Officer

FUKUZAWA Hidekazu

Managing Officer
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
General Manager of Group Company Business Development Department

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)

Managing Officer

KAWASAKI Kohei

Managing Officer
CCO (Chief Creative Officer)
General Manager of Creative Department
Assistant Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division
Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division Marketing Department

1981: Born in 1981
2017: Joined the Company
2018: Managing Officer of the Company (current position)

Managing Officer

NAGASAWA Tsubasa

Managing Officer
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
General Manager of Technology Department
Head of LIFULL HOME'S Division Innovation Development Office
Group Data Division

1985: Born in 1985
2008: Joined the Company
2021: Managing Officer of the Company (current position)