Notice Regarding Changes in Members of the Board, Chief Officers, and Corporate Officers

KADOKAWA CORPORATION (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Chief Executive Officer: Takeshi Natsuno) hereby announces that a resolution to elect Members of the Board was adopted at the 9th General Meeting of Shareholders held on June 22, 2023 and that at the subsequently convened extraordinary meeting of the Board Members, Chief Officers and Corporate Officers were determined.

1.    Member of the Board (as of June 22, 2023)

Name	Position and Delegated Duties
Takeshi Natsuno	Member of the Board
Naohisa Yamashita	Member of the Board
Shinobu Murakawa	Member of the Board
Noriko Kase	Member of the Board
Nobuo Kawakami	Member of the Board
Cindy Chou	Member of the Board
Hiroo Unoura	Member of the Board, Independent Chairperson of the Nominating Committee Member of the Remuneration Committee
Ruth Marie Jarman	Member of the Board, Independent Chairperson of the Remuneration Committee Member of the Nominating Committee
Tadaaki Sugiyama -Newly appointed	Member of the Board, Independent Chairperson of the Audit Committee Member of the Nominating Committee
Yu Sasamoto -Newly appointed	Member of the Board, Independent Member of the Remuneration Committee
Akihiko Shiba -Newly appointed	Member of the Board, Independent Member of the Audit Committee
Ayumi Uzawa -Newly appointed	Member of the Board, Independent Member of the Audit Committee
David Macdonald -Newly appointed	Member of the Board, Independent Member of the Remuneration Committee

 

2.    Chief Officer (as of June 22, 2023)

Name	Position and Delegated Duties
Takeshi Natsuno	Chief Executive Officer
Naohisa Yamashita	Chief Human Resource Officer Chief Literature & Film Officer
Shinobu Murakawa	Chief Operating Officer
Masayuki Aoyagi	Chief Publishing Officer
Takeshi Kikuchi	Chief Anime Officer
Takashi Sensui	Chief Global Officer
Ichiro Hashiba	Chief Digital Officer

 

3.    Corporate Officer (as of July 1, 2023)

Name	Position and Delegated Duties
Hiroyuki Watanabe	Corporate Officer, Publishing Business
Masanori Kawakane	Corporate Officer, Publishing Business
Hisaaki Wakaizumi	Corporate Officer, Film and Drama
Masafumi Kurihara	Corporate Officer, Marketing
Masato Ito -Newly appointed	Corporate Officer, Manufacturing & Logistics
Yoichi Yasumoto	Corporate Officer, Information Systems
Hidetaka Miyazaki	Corporate Officer, Game Business
Hajime Matsuda -Newly appointed	Corporate Officer, Human Resources & General Affairs
Masahiro Onai	Chief Compliance Officer

 

■About KADOKAWA CORPORATION

KADOKAWA CORPORATION develops a wide range of entertainment including publication, videos, games, Web services, education, operating IP experiential facilities such as TOKOROZAWA SAKURA TOWN. By utilizing technology, KADOKAWA CORPORATION implements a global media mix strategy, focusing on stable Intellectual Property (IP) creation and delivering it to the world in a variety of forms.


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