Corporate Governance
Board of Directors
Directors
President & CEOShiro Ajisaka
| April 1978 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| April 1990 | President, TAMRON Europe GmbH. |
| January 2005 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Overseas Sales & Marketing Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| January 2008 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Overseas Imaging Products Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2010 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2013 | Managing Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2014 | Senior Managing Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2015 | Corporate Vice President, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2016 | President & CEO, Tamron Co., Ltd. (current post) |
Corporate Vice PresidentShogo Sakuraba
| April 1981 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| January 2005 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Optical Design & Engineering R & D Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| January 2008 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Optical Design & Engineering R & D Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2014 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2016 | Corporate Vice President, Tamron Co., Ltd.(current post) |
Corporate Vice PresidenMasayuki Abo
| March 1971 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| August 1999 | Managing Director, TAMRON OPTICAL (FOSHAN) CO., LTD. |
| January 2005 | Executive Officer, Assistant General Manager, Production Management & Administration Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| January 2007 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Industrial Optics Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| January 2008 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Industrial Optics Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| January 2011 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Process Technology & Engineering Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2014 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2016 | Senior Managing Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2018 | Corporate Vice President, Tamron Co., Ltd. (current post) |
Managing DirectorKoji Masunari
| April 1978 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| April 2012 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Industrial Optics Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| April 2014 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Industrial Optics Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2015 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2016 | Managing Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. (current post) |
Managing DirectorYasuki Kitazume
| November 2003 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| January 2007 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Accounting & Financial Management Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| April 2010 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager,Accounting & Financial Management Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2016 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2018 | Managing Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. (current post) |
Managing DirectorHiroshi Otsuka
| June 2006 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| April 2010 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Technology Development Strategic Planning Board, General Manager, Legal & IP Management Board, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| January 2015 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Corporate Business Planning & Administration Board, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| April 2015 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Corporate Business Planning & Administration Board, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2016 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2020 | Managing Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. (current post) |
Managing DirectorShenghai Zhang
| January 1997 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| April 2010 | Executive Officer, Tamron Co., Ltd., Managing Director, TAMRON OPTICAL (FOSHAN) CO., LTD. |
| April 2014 | Senior Executive Officer, Tamron Co., Ltd., Managing Director, TAMRON OPTICAL (FOSHAN) CO., LTD. |
| March 2016 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2020 | Managing Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. (current post) |
DirectorMakoto Otani
| April 1984 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| April 2012 | Executive Officer, General Manager, OEM Component Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2015 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Industrial Optics Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| April 2016 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Industrial Optics Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| March 2018 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. (current post) |
DirectorTomohide Okayasu
| December 2000 | Joined Tamron Co., Ltd. |
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| April 2012 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Product Development Management & Administration Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| January 2014 | Executive Officer, General Manager, Imaging Products Business Unit, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| April 2016 | Senior Executive Officer, Tamron Co., Ltd. |
| April 2017 | Senior Executive Officer, Tamron Co., Ltd. Vice Chairman, TAMRON USA, INC. |
| March 2018 | Director, Tamron Co., Ltd. (current post) |
Director (Outside)Yuichi Sato
| April 1978 | Joined Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. (now Toshiba Corporation) |
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| January 1980 | Assistant, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| April 1983 | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Saitama University |
| April 1994 | Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Saitama University |
| April 2010 | Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Saitama University |
| April 2013 | Dean, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University |
| April 2014 | Executive Director, Vice President, Saitama University National University Corporation |
| March 2018 | Outside Director, the Company (current post) |
Director (Outside)Harumi Katagiri
| November 1993 | Joined Asahi & Co. (now KPMG AZSA LLC) |
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| April 1998 | Registered as a certified public accountant in Japan |
| March 2000 | Joined Century Audit Corporation (now Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC) |
| July 2009 | Member of Ernst & Young Shin Nihon LLC |
| July 2017 | Opened the Harumi Katagiri certified public accountants’ office (current post) |
| March 2018 | Outside Director, the Company (current post) |
| June 2019 | Supervisory Director, Mori Trust Sogo Reit, Inc. (current post) |
| June 2019 | Outside Director, Japan Asia Investment Company, Limited (current post) |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Audit & Supervisory Board MemberTsutomu Tezuka
| April 1981 | Joined the Company |
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| January 2008 | General Manager of Internal Audit & Supervision Board of the Company |
| March 2014 | General Manager of Human Resources & General Affairs Management Unit of the Company |
| April 2014 | Executive Officer, General Manager of Human Resources & General Affairs Management Unit of the Company |
| January 2018 | Executive Officer, General Manager of Legal & IP Management Board of the Company |
| January 2019 | Executive Officer, Assistant to the President of the Company |
| March 2019 | Corporate Auditor of the Company (current post) |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member (Outside)Takashi Hirayama
| April 1980 | Joined the Saitama Bank, Ltd. (the present Saitama Resona Bank, Ltd.) |
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| June 2005 | Executive Officer, Saitama Resona Bank, Ltd. |
| January 2008 | Managing Executive Officer in charge of finance and IPO preparation of AGS Corporation |
| June 2010 | Corporate Auditor of AGS Business Computer Corporation |
| May 2011 | General Manager of Information Processing Division, Managing Executive Officer of AGS Corporation |
| October 2015 | Managing Executive Officer in charge of operational audits of AGS Corporation (current post) |
| March 2019 | Independent Corporate Auditor of the Company (current post) |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member (Outside)Tadahiro Tone
| April 1969 | Joined the Saitama Bank, Ltd. (the present Saitama Resona Bank, Ltd.) |
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| August 2002 | President of Saitama Resona Bank, Ltd. |
| October 2003 | President, RepresentativeDirector of Saitama Resona Bank, Ltd. |
| June 2006 | Chairman of Saitama Resona Bank, Ltd. |
| April 2010 | Chancellor of Saitama Prefectural University |
| March 2011 | Independent Corporate Auditor of the Company (current post) |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member（Outside）Masaya Nara
| September 1990 | Joined Yasuda Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (the present Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.) |
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| April 2009 | Executive officer, General Manager of Investment Planning Division of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
| June 2011 | Full-time corporate auditor of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
| April 2014 | Senior managing director of Mizuho Realty Co., Ltd. |
| January 2017 | Registered as an attorney |
| January 2017 | Joined Torikai Law Office (current post) |
| March 2019 | Independent Corporate Auditor of the Company (current post) |
| Classification | Name | 2019 Activity status(attendance rate) |
| Director | Yuichi Sato | Attended all 18 meetings of the Board of Directors held during the fiscal year. He has made appropriate remarks based on his wealth of experience as a director and vice president of Saitama University. |
| Director | Harumi Katagiri | Attended all 18 meetings of the Board of Directors held during the fiscal year. She has made appropriate remarks based on her professional knowledge and experience as a certified public accountant. |
| Auditor | Takashi Hirayama | He attended all 14 Board of Directors meetings and all 10 Audit & Supervisory Board meetings held since taking office. He has made appropriate remarks based on his wealth of business experience at financial institutions and the knowledge and experience of auditors and audit departments of other companies. |
| Auditor | Tadahiro Tone | Attended all 17 of the 18 meetings of the Board of Directors and 15 of the Audit & Supervisory Board held during the fiscal year. He makes comments as appropriate based on his wealth of business experience at financial institutions and his knowledge and experience as a corporate manager. |
| Auditor | Masaya Nara | He attended all 14 Board of Directors meetings and all 10 Audit & Supervisory Board meetings held since taking office. He has made appropriate remarks based on his professional knowledge and experience as a lawyer and his knowledge and experience as directors and corporate auditors of other companies. |