Board of Directors
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Chairman/CEO
Tsuyoshi Ide
Brief work history
- May 1997President/CEO, Trans Genic Inc.
- April 2005President/CEO, Kajitsudo Co., Ltd.
- December 2015President/CEO, DAIZ Inc.
- January 2024Chairman/CEO, DAIZ Inc. (Current)
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Co-Chairman/President/COO
Junko Kawano
Brief work history
- April 2000Joined Trans Genic Inc.
- June 2015Director/General Manager of Business Promotion, Kajitsudo Co., Ltd.
- October 2020Director/COO/Operations Manager, DAIZ Inc.
- January 2022Director/COO/Production Manager, DAIZ Inc.
- January 2024Co-Chairman/President/COO, DAIZ Inc. (Current)
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Director/CTO
Koji Ochiai
Brief work history
- March 1998Factory Manager, SALAD COSMO USA CORP.
- May 2006President/CEO, Seedlife Tech Inc.
- April 2019Professor, School of Pharmacy, Kumamoto University (Current)
- October 2020Director/CTO, DAIZ Inc. (Current)
- January 2024President/CEO, DAIZ Engineering Inc. (Current)
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Director/CFO
Tatsuya Koitabashi
Brief work history
- January 2015Management Planning Division Manager, Kajitsudo Co., Ltd.
- October 2020Director/CFO/Administration Manager, DAIZ Inc.
- January 2022Director/CFO, DAIZ Inc. (Current)
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Outside Director
Keigo Fujii
Brief work history
- September 1986Joined JMA Consultants Inc.
- September 2007Senior Corporate Executive Officer, KANAE CAPITAL Inc.
- November 2008Director, Tokatsu Foods Co., Ltd.
- October 2014Executive Officer; Agribusiness Division Director, KAGOME Co., Ltd.
- October 2019Senior Director, Agriculture, forestry and fisheries Fund corporation for Innovation, Value-chain and Expansion Japan
- April 2020Outside Director, of the Company (Current)
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Outside Director
Yoshimasa Aikawa
Brief work history
- June 2013Director; Executive Officer, Fujitsu Kyushu Systems Engineering Ltd.
- April 2014Director; Managing Executive Officer, Fujitsu Kyushu Systems Engineering Ltd.
- April 2017President&Representative Director, Fujitsu Cloud Technologies Ltd.
- March 2021Outside Director, of the Company (Current)
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Outside Director
Masaki Takayanagi
Brief work history
- September 1999Joined AT Kearney Co., Ltd., Strategy Consultant
- March 2000Joined Daiwa Securities SMBC (Tokyo/London), Director, Investment Banking Division
- September 2007Joined Nomura Securities Australia (Sydney), Executive Director, Investment Banking Division
- September 2010Joined SBI Ven Capital Pte Ltd. (Singapore)
Managing Director & CEO (concurrently, in 2011, Board of Director and Executive Officer, SBI Holdings Co., Ltd.) - June 2019Joined bitFlyer Holdings, Inc., Executive Officer, Head of Group Investment, Board of Director of US and European Group companies
- May 2023Joined Overseas Demand Development Support Organization (Cool Japan Fund Inc.) as Managing Director (Current)
- November 2023Outside Director, of the Company (Current)
Audit
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Full Time Auditor
Minoru Hatakeyama
Brief work history
- November 2003Representative Director, SAKURA Inc.
- June 2014Audit, Kajitsudo Co., Ltd.
- March 2020Audit, of the Company (Current)
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Outside Auditor
Kenji Kimura
Brief work history
- April 1985Joined Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
- October 2008Senior Managing Director of Nomura Holdings, Inc. & COO of Nomura International plc.
- April 2015Senior Corporate Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
- April 2018Senior Managing Director of Nomura Holdings, Inc. & Representative Director, President of The Nomura Trust and Banking Co., Ltd.
- April 2021Advisor of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
- March 2022Outside Auditor of the Company (Current)
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Outside Auditor
Shiho Boda
Brief work history
- August 1992Salomon Brothers-Asia Securities (Now Citigroup Global Markets Inc.)
- January 2014Registered Attorney (Tokyo Bar Association), Toshio Ando Law Office
- December 2017Jeff Leong, Poon & Wong(Malaysia)
- November 2019Kasame & Associates(Thailand)
- April 2020Sakurada Dori Partners
- March 2022Outside Auditor of the Company (Current)