Officers

Taro Fujie

Director,
Executive Officer & Chairman of Company

Shigeo Nakamura

Representative Executive Officer,
President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Hiroshi Shiragami

Director,
Representative Executive Officer & Executive Vice President

Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), and
Supervision of Research and Development

Tatsuya Sasaki

Director,
Executive Officer & Senior Vice President

General Manager, Corporate Division

Takeshi Saito

Director,
Executive Officer & Vice President

Chief Transformation Officer (CXO)

Takumi Matsuzawa

Director

Kimie Iwata

Independent Director

George Nakayama

Independent Director

Mami Indo

Independent Director

Yoko Hatta

Independent Director

Scott Trevor Davis

Independent Director

Yukako Wagatsuma

Independent Director

Executive Officer & Senior Vice President

• Yoshiteru Masai (General Manager, Food Products Division)
• Takayuki Koda (Chief Digital Officer (CDO), and Supervision of Manufacturing)
• Sumio Maeda (General Manager, Bio & Fine Chemicals Division)
• Ichiro Sakakura (General Manager, ASEAN Division, and President, AJINOMOTO CO. (THAILAND) LTD.)

Executive Officer & Vice President

• Eiichi Mizutani (In charge of Finance & Investor Relations)
• Ikuo Kira (General Manager, North America Division)
• Tatsuya Okamoto (Deputy General Manager, Food Products Division, and General Manager, Marketing Design Center)
• Hideaki Kawana (Supervision of Frozen Foods)
• Takayuki Tahara (Deputy General Manager, Food Products Division, and Supervision of Food Products Sales)
• Masaru Takayanagi (Deputy General Manager, Bio & Fine Chemicals Division, and General Manager, Research Institute for Bioscience Products & Fine Chemicals, and General Manager, Kawasaki Administration & Coordination Office)

Executive Officer

• Masaki Kashihara (In charge of Green Business Development)
• Smriga Miroslav (In charge of Quality Assurance)
• Takaaki Arashida (In Charge of Corporate Planning)
• Shino Kayahara (In charge of Diversity and HR)
• Maiko Mori (General Manager, Europe & Africa Division)
• Michael Lish (Deputy General Manager, Bio & Fine Chemicals Division)
• Shuhei Takehara (In charge of Internal Control and Audit Committee)
• Ayumu Kamiya (Deputy General Manager, Food Products Division)
• Kaori Ono (In charge of Sustainability)
• Hiroshi Kawase (Deputy General Manager, Food Products
  Division,
  General Manager, Institute of Food
  Sciences and Technologies)
• Naoko Yamamoto
  (General Manager, Latin America
  Division, Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
  President, AJINOMOTO DO BRASIL
  INDUSTRIA E COMERCIO DE
  ALIMENTOS LTDA.)