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Name of Listed Company: | Gurunavi, Inc. |
Listed Stock Exchanges: | Tokyo Stock Exchange |
Stock Code: | 2440 |
Representative: | Seiichiro Kubo, President |
Notice of Change in Representative Directors
May 22, 2019 - The board of directors of Gurunavi, Inc. (the "Company") today resolved the items regarding the following change in Representative Directors.
The change will be formally approved at the 30th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled on June 19, 2019 (the "General Meeting") and at the meeting of the Board of Directors to be held after the close of the General Meeting.
1. Reason for the change
The change will be implemented for the phase of strengthening the cooperation with Rakuten, Inc. and improvement and enhancement of management system as well as the corporate value.
2. Details of the change
- New Representative Director
Name | New Title | Current Title |
Akio Sugihara | President and | Group Managing Executive Officer |
Representative Director | Rakuten, Inc. | |
- Retiring Representative Director
Name | New Title | Current Title |
Chairman and | ||
Hisao Taki | Chairman and Director | Representative Director |
Planning and Development | ||
President and | ||
Seiichiro Kubo | (Retirement) | Representative Director |
Sales and Marketing |
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3. Profile of new Representative Director | ||
Name: | Akio Sugihara | |
Date of birth: | August 26, 1969 | |
Birthplace: | Hiroshima | |
Education: | Completed the Master course of Graduate school of Media and Governance, | |
Keio University | ||
Career summary: March 1996 | Started an internet service company | |
February 1997 | Participated in MDM, Inc. (currently Rakuten, Inc.) as a | |
co-founder | ||
November 1999 | Director, General Manager, New Business Development, | |
Rakuten, Inc. | ||
October 2000 | Representative Director, President, | |
Rakuten Books, Inc. | ||
July 2007 | Director and Group Managing Executive Officer, | |
CPO (Chief Produce Officer), | ||
General Manager, Development and Creative & Web | ||
Design General Headquarters, | ||
Rakuten, Inc. | ||
April 2012 | Director and Group Managing Executive Officer, | |
In charge of Human Resources & General Affairs, | ||
Rakuten, Inc. | ||
October 2018 | Group Managing Executive Officer, | |
CHO (Chief Health Officer), | ||
In charge of Human Resources & General Affairs | ||
Rakuten, Inc. (current) | ||
Significant concurrent positions: | Corporate Auditor, TECHMATRIX CORPORATION; | |
Representative Director, President, Rakuten Socio | ||
business, Inc.; | ||
Director, Rakuten Baseball, Inc.; | ||
Director, Rakuten Vissel Kobe, Inc. | ||
Number of shares held: | 0 shares |
4. Scheduled date of the change June 19, 2019
(Reference) Change in Directors 1. Candidates for Director
Name | New Title | Reference | |
Hisao Taki | (Reelection) | Chairman and | ― |
Director | |||
Group Managing Executive Officer | |||
Rakuten, Inc.; | |||
President and | Corporate Auditor, | ||
TECHMATRIX CORPORATION; | |||
Akio Sugihara | (New Candidate) | Representative | |
Representative Director, President, | |||
Director | |||
Rakuten Sociobusiness, Inc.; | |||
Director, Rakuten Baseball, Inc.; | |||
Director, Rakuten Vissel Kobe, Inc. | |||
2 |
Adviser, | ||||||
Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company, | ||||||
Limited; | ||||||
Outside | External Director, ELIIY Power Co., Ltd.; | |||||
Koichi Tsukihara | (Reelection) | Outside Director, YAMASHITA, LTD.; | ||||
Director | ||||||
Independent Non-Executive Officer, | ||||||
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC; | ||||||
Independent Non-Executive Officer, | ||||||
Deloitte Tohmatsu LLC | ||||||
Outside | Outside Director, | |||||
Hidehiko Sato | (New Candidate) | Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.; | ||||
Director | ||||||
Outside Director, Resona Holdings, Inc. | ||||||
Hirohisa Fujiwara | (New Candidate) | Outside | Director, Managing Executive Officer, | |||
Director | Tokyu Corporation | |||||
Group Executive Vice President, | ||||||
President of Commerce Company | ||||||
Kazunori Takeda | (New Candidate) | Outside | Rakuten, Inc.; | |||
Director | Director, Rakuten Vissel Kobe, Inc.; | |||||
Director, Rakuten General Insurance Co., | ||||||
Ltd. | ||||||
Group Managing Executive Officer, | ||||||
CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) | ||||||
Naho Kono | (New Candidate) | Outside | Senior Vice President of Commerce | |||
Director | Company, Rakuten, Inc.; | |||||
Director, GirlsAward Inc.; | ||||||
Director, Rakuten Management, Inc. | ||||||
2. Directors to retire | ||||||
Name | New Title | Current Title | ||||
President and | ||||||
Seiichiro Kubo | (Retirement) | Representative Director | ||||
Sales and Marketing | ||||||
Director, Executive Vice President | ||||||
Hisao Iizuka | (Retirement) | Administration; | ||||
Corporate Security Management | ||||||
Senior Managing Executive Officer | Director, | |||||
Senior Managing Executive Officer | ||||||
Sales and Marketing; | ||||||
Sales and Marketing; | ||||||
Miho Saito | Planning and Development; | |||||
Planning and Development; | ||||||
Restaurant Sales; | ||||||
Restaurant Sales; | ||||||
Operation Support Service | ||||||
Operation Support Service | ||||||
Senior Managing Executive Officer | Director, | |||||
Senior Managing Executive Officer | ||||||
Administration; | ||||||
Administration; | ||||||
Corporate Planning; | ||||||
Teruhisa Yamada | Corporate Planning; | |||||
Corporate Strategy; | ||||||
Corporate Strategy; | ||||||
Strategy Promotion; | ||||||
Strategy Promotion; | ||||||
Business Center | ||||||
Business Center | ||||||
3 |
Director, | ||||||
Managing Executive Officer | ||||||
Administration; | ||||||
Midori Kakiuchi | (Retirement) | Legal and Compliance; | ||||
Diversity Promotion; | ||||||
Executive Assistant Community | ||||||
Development | ||||||
Managing Executive Officer | Director, | |||||
Managing Executive Officer | ||||||
Naoki Koshikawa | Development; | |||||
Development; | ||||||
IT Infrastructure | ||||||
IT Infrastructure | ||||||
Managing Executive Officer | Director, | |||||
Yoshitaka Inuzuka | Managing Executive Officer | |||||
Planning | ||||||
Planning | ||||||
Megumi Usui | (Retirement) | Director, Executive Officer | ||||
Outside Director | ||||||
Yoichi Minami | (Retirement) | Adviser, JR EAST VIEW Travel | ||||
Service Co., ltd. | ||||||
3. Candidates for Auditor | ||||||
Name | Title | Note | ||||
Chairman of the Board & Representative | ||||||
Director, Keikyu Corporation; | ||||||
Outside Director, Tokai Kisen Co., Ltd.; | ||||||
Outside Director, Tokyo Airport | ||||||
Restaurant Co., Ltd.; | ||||||
Tsuneo Ishiwata | (Reelection) | Outside | Outside Director, LUMINE WING Co., Ltd.; | |||
Auditor | Outside Director, YOKOHAMA CITY AIR | |||||
TERMINAL CO., LTD.; | ||||||
Chairman, Kanagawa Association of | ||||||
Corporate Executives; | ||||||
Chairman, Kanagawa-ken Employer's | ||||||
Association | ||||||
Outside | Representative, Minaki and Kitazawa Law | |||||
Taketeru Minaki | (Reelection) | office; | ||||
Auditor | ||||||
Outside Auditor, NKB Inc. | ||||||
4. Auditor to retire | ||||||
Name | New Title | Current Title | ||||
Masaru Masumoto | (Retirement) | Outside Auditor (Full-time) |
5. Scheduled date of the change June 19, 2019
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