Officers
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Taro Fujie
Director,
Representative Executive Officer,
President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
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Hiroshi Shiragami
Director,
Representative Executive Officer & Executive Vice President
Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), and
Supervision of Research and Development
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Tatsuya Sasaki
Director,
Executive Officer & Senior Vice President
General Manager, Corporate Division
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Takumi Matsuzawa
Director
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Kimie Iwata
Independent Director
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George Nakayama
Independent Director
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Mami Indo
Independent Director
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Yoko Hatta
Independent Director
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Scott Trevor Davis
Independent Director
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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)
Executive Officer & Vice President
- Sumio Maeda (General Manager, Bio & Fine Chemicals Division)
- Junichiro Kojima (Deputy General Manager, Food Products Division, and General Manager, Institute of Food Sciences and Technologies)
- Chika Morishima (In charge of Sustainability and Communications)
- Eiichi Mizutani (In charge of Finance & Investor Relations)
- Ikuo Kira (General Manager, North America Division)
- Ichiro Sakakura (General Manager, ASEAN Division, and President, AJINOMOTO CO. (THAILAND) LTD.)
- Tatsuya Okamoto (Deputy General Manager, Food Products Division, and General Manager, Marketing Design Center)
- Hideaki Kawana (Supervision of Frozen Foods)
- Shigeo Nakamura (General Manager, Latin America Division, and President, AJINOMOTO DO BRASIL INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO DE ALIMENTOS LTDA.)
- 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)