As of March 24, 2023
Director, Chair
Michitaka Sawada
Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Yoshihiro Hasebe
Representative Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer
Masakazu Negoro
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer
Toru Nishiguchi
Director, Managing Executive Officer
David J. Muenz
Outside Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Osamu Shinobe
Outside Director
Chiaki Mukai
Outside Director
Nobuhide Hayashi
Outside Director
Eriko Sakurai
Outside Director
Takaaki Nishii
Title | Name | Position(s) |
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President and CEO | Yoshihiro Hasebe | Responsible for DX Strategy |
Senior Managing Executive Officer | Masakazu Negoro | Responsible for Management Finance (Accounting and Finance, Business Structure Reforms, Procurement, Human Capital Strategy) |
Senior Managing Executive Officer | Toru Nishiguchi | Responsible for Consumer Products, Global; Responsible for Kao Professional Services Co., Ltd. |
Managing Executive Officer | David J. Muenz | Senior Vice President, ESG, Global; Responsible for Strategic Public Relations |
Managing Executive Officer | Osamu Tabata | Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Global; Responsible for TCR Promotion |
Managing Executive Officer | Yoshihiro Murakami | Senior Vice President, DX Strategy, Global |
Managing Executive Officer | Hideaki Kubo | Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Global |
Managing Executive Officer | Satoru Tanaka | Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Global; Responsible for Product Quality Management; Responsible for Legal |
Senior Executive Officer | Masahiro Katayose | President, Chemical Business, Global; Chairperson of the Board, Fatty Chemical (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.; Chairperson of the Board, Pilipinas Kao, Inc.; Chairperson of the Board, Kao Chemicals Europe, S.L. |
Senior Executive Officer | Hiroaki Yamaguchi | Vice President, Supply Chain Management - Manufacturing Plant Center, Global; Responsible for Strategic Innovative Technology, SCM, Global |
Senior Executive Officer | Kotaro Nuriya | President, Consumer Products - Health & Beauty Care Business, Global |
Senior Executive Officer | Natsumi Hotta | President, Consumer Products - Hygiene & Living Care Business, Global |
Senior Executive Officer | Hideki Mamiya | Senior Vice President, Human Capital Strategy, Global; President, Kao Group Corporate Pension Fund; Chairperson of the Board, Kao America Inc. |
Senior Executive Officer | Yosuke Maezawa | President, Consumer Products - Cosmetics Business, Global; Representative Director, President, Kanebo Cosmetics Inc.; Chairperson of the Board, Molton Brown Limited |
Executive Officer | Kenichi Yamauchi | Senior Vice President, Accounting and Finance, Global; President, Kao America Inc. |
Executive Officer | Ryoichi Harada | Senior Vice President, Enterprise Information Solutions, Global |
Executive Officer | Shigeo Nakai | Vice President, Research and Development - Performance Chemicals Research, Global; Responsible for Research and Development - Environmental New Business |
Executive Officer | Masaru Takeyasu | Chairperson of the Board and President, Kao (China) Holding Co., Ltd.; Chairperson of the Board and President, Kao Corporation Shanghai; Chairperson of the Board, Kao Commercial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.; Chairperson of the Board, Kanebo Cosmetics (China) Co., Ltd.; Chairperson of the Board and President, Kao (Hefei) Co., Ltd. |
Executive Officer | Motomitsu Hasumi | Senior Vice President, Product Quality Management, Global |
Executive Officer | Mami Murata | Senior Vice President, Strategic Public Relations, Global |
Executive Officer | Akira Shimotoyodome | President, Consumer Products - Life Care Business, Global |
Executive Officer | Karen B. Frank | President, Consumer Products - Consumer Care Business, Americas and EMEA; Chairperson of the Board & President, Kao USA Inc. |
Executive Officer | Yoji Matsumoto | Representative Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Kao Group Customer Marketing Co., Ltd. |
Executive Officer | Hiroyuki Terazaki | Vice President, Research and Development, Global; Vice President, Research and Development - Strategy, Global |
Executive Officer | Dominic M. Pratt | President, Consumer Products - Salon Business, Global; Chairperson of the Board, Oribe Hair Care, LLC; President, Kao Germany GmbH |
Executive Officer | Yoshio Nakao | Representative Director, President, Kao Group Customer Marketing Co., Ltd. |
Executive Officer | Naoshi Nakamoto | Senior Vice President, Procurement, Global |
Executive Officer | Mark Johnson | President, Consumer Products - Cosmetics Business, Americas and EMEA; President, Molton Brown Limited |
Executive Officer | Yasuhiro Ishikura | Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Global; Vice President, Corporate Strategy - AK Project, Global |
Executive Officer | Akiko Hasegawa | Senior Vice President, Legal, Global |
Title | Name |
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Corporate Executive Fellow | Hiroshi Maruyama |
Corporate Executive Fellow | Lisa MacCallum |
Corporate Executive Fellow | Takuzo Aida |