Notice of Nominees for Directors

  • Corporate

Listed Company Name:

鶹 Co., Ltd.

Representative:

Haruo Naito

Representative Corporate
Officer and CEO

Securities Code:

4523

Stock Exchange Listings:

Prime Market of the Tokyo

Stock Exchange

Inquiries:

Teruyuki Masaka

Vice President,

Corporate Communications

Phone +81-3-3817-5120

 

鶹 Co., Ltd. announced that the Nomination Committee has selected candidates for directors to be proposed at Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on June 17, 2026.

 

 

1. Nominees for Directors

Name Current Position
Haruo Naito internal reappointed

Director

Representative Corporate Officer and CEO

Chair, The Naito Foundation

Fumihiko Ike external reappointed

Chair of the Board of Directors

Outside Director, Resona Holdings, Inc.

Hiroyuki Kato

internal reappointed Director

Richard Thornley

external reappointed

Director

Chief Executive Officer, Thornley International

Toru Moriyama

external reappointed Director
Yuko Yasuda external reappointed

Director

Executive Vice President, Board Advisors Japan, Inc.

Outside Director, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Outside Director, KAJIMA CORPORATION

Takuji Kanai

external reappointed

Director

Certified Public Accountant,

Outside Director, The Gunma Bank, Ltd.

Kenta Takahashi internal reappointed Director
Yasushi Okada internal reappointed Director
Ryoko Ueda external reappointed

Director

Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University

Professor, SBI Graduate School

Commissioner of Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board

Outside Director, Hirata Corporation

Outside Director, TOKAI Holdings Corporation

Outside Director, KOEI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED

Koichi Kawana external newly appointed

Executive Chairman & Director, RENOVA, Inc.

Outside Director, BANDAI NAMCO Holdings Inc.

Outside Director, ispace, inc.

Outside Director, Kubota Corporation

Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University (Scheduled to take office in April 2026)

Yuko Toyoda external newly appointed

Partner, City-Yuwa Partners

Outside Director, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

NOTE: Fumihiko Ike, Richard Thornley, Toru Moriyama, Yuko Yasuda, Takuji Kanai, Ryoko Ueda, Koichi Kawana and Yuko Toyoda are nominees who meet the requirements of an Outside Director set forth in Article 2, Paragraph 3, Item 7 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Companies Act of Japan.

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2. Nominees for Chair of Board of Directors and Committee Members (The 〇 mark indicates the chair)

Chair of the Board of Directors Fumihiko Ike
Nomination Committee 〇Toru Moriyama, Richard Thornley, Yuko Yasuda, Koichi Kawana
Audit Committee

〇Takuji Kanai, Hiroyuki Kato, Kenta Takahashi, Ryoko Ueda, Yuko Toyoda

Compensation Committee

〇Richard Thornley, Toru Moriyama, Yuko Yasuda, Koichi Kawana

The hhc Governance Committee will consist of eight outside directors and its chairperson will be the Chair of the Board of Directors.

   

3. Retiring Directors

Name Current Position
Ryota Miura

Outside Director,

Partner, Miura & Partners

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Tokyo Electron Limited

4. Career Summary of New Nominees for Directors

Koichi Kawana (April 23, 1958)

Apr. 1982

Joined JGC CORPORATION (currently, JGC HOLDINGS CORPORATION)

Aug. 2007

Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, New Business Promotion Division, Global Marketing Division, JGC CORPORATION

Jun. 2009

Managing Director, Senior General Manager, Global Marketing Division, JGC CORPORATION

Jun. 2010

Representative Director, Senior Executive Vice President, JGC CORPORATION

Jul. 2011

Representative Director and President (COO), JGC CORPORATION

Jun. 2012

Representative Director and President, JGC CORPORATION

Jun. 2017

Director, Vice Chairman, JGC CORPORATION (resigned in Jun. 2020)

Jun. 2019

Outside Director, TOKYO ELECTRON DEVICE LIMITED

 

Outside Director, BANDAI NAMCO Holdings Inc. (Current)

 

Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), COMSYS Holdings Corporation

Jun. 2020

Outside Director, RENOVA, Inc.

Dec. 2020

Outside Director, ispace, inc. (Current)

Mar. 2023

Outside Director, Kubota Corporation (Current)

Jun. 2023

Executive Chairman & Director, RENOVA, Inc. (Current)

Apr. 2026

Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University (Scheduled to take up office)

 

 

Yuko Toyoda (August 21, 1970)

Oct. 2000

Registered as Attorney at Law admitted in Japan 

Nishimura & Partners (Currently Nishimura & Asahi (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo))

Jun. 2002

Civil Affairs Bureau, The Ministry of Justice

Apr. 2006

Nishimura Tokiwa Law Office (Currently Nishimura & Asahi (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo))

Apr. 2011

Deputy General Manager, Group Legal Department, Nomura Holdings, Inc.

Dec. 2014

General Manager, Control Room, Compliance Department, Barclays Securities Japan Limited

Sep. 2015

Special Counsel, City-Yuwa Partners

Jan. 2023

Partner, City-Yuwa Partners (Current)

Mar. 2023

Outside Director, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. (Current)

    

   

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