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Company Profile

Company Name ロート製薬株式会社
ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Foundation February 22, 1899
Incorporation September 15, 1949
Capital 6,504 million yen （as of March 31, 2023）
Net Sales 115,355 million yen <non-consolidated basis>
238,664 million yen <consolidated basis> （as of March 31, 2023）
Number of Employees 1,628 <non-consolidated basis>
7,176 <consolidated basis>（as of March 31, 2023）
Stock Listing Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.　(Prime Market)
Main Business Manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical products, cosmetics and functional foods

Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Directors

Kunio Yamada

Chairman & CEO

Biography

April 1980 Joined the Company
June 1991 Director
June 1992 Senior Managing Director
March 1995 Head of Healthcare Business Promotion Headquarters
May 1995 Director of Mentholatum
June 1996 Executive Vice President
July 1998 Chairman of the Board of Mentholatum (current)
June 1999 Director and President
June 2009 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
August 2018 Chairman and President
June 2019 Chairman of the Board (current)
March 2021 Outside Director of Bacchus Bioinnovation Co., Ltd. (current)

Masashi Sugimoto

President and Chief Operating Officer

Biography

April 1984 Joined Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
October 2009 President of Healthcare Company
April 2017 Takeda Consumer Healthcare Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director
January 2019 Joined the Company Strategic Advisor
June 2019 President and CEO (current)
August 2021 Chairman and Representative Director of Amato Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (current)

Masaya Saito

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Biography

April 1986 Joined the Company
May 1998 President of ROHTO Mentholatum Vietnam Co., Ltd.
April 2008 Deputy General Manager of Management Information Headquarters
June 2011 Director, General Manager of Corporate Planning Headquarters
June 2017 Director of Corporate Strategy Promotion Headquarters
June 2018 Executive Vice President (current),
President of Mentholatum (current),
Chairman of ROHTO Mentholatum Vietnam Co., Ltd. (current position)
March 2022 Chief Financial Officer (CFO) (current)

Shinichi Kunisaki

Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

Biography

April 1981 Joined Suntory Limited (now Suntory Holdings Limited)
January 2007 Joined the Company Executive Officer, R&D Headquarters
February 2007 General Manager of Research and Development Headquarters
June 2010 Director
June 2017 Director of Corporate Strategy Promotion Headquarters
June 2018 President and Representative Director of Qualitech Pharma Co., Ltd. (current position)
June 2020 Managing Director, E.Designer, Production/SCM Strategy Design Headquarters
March 2022 Chief Technical Officer (CTO) (current)
March 2023 Executive Vice President (current)

Hidetoshi Segi

Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

Biography

April 1985 Joined Nihon Vicks Co., Ltd. (now P&G Japan Co., Ltd.)
June 1997 Joined the Company
June 2018 Director
March 2022 Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) (current)
June 2022 Director
March 2023 Managing Director (current)

Yasunori Kawasaki

Director and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)

Biography

April 1982 Joined Nippon Life Insurance Company
April 1986 Joined the Company
October 2011 Director, Michinoku Future Fund (current)
July 2021 Executive Officer
March 2023 In charge of human resource development and education
June 2023 Director and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) (current)

Yoshie Okouchi

Director and Chief Communication Officer (CCO)

Biography

April 1992 Joined Nikko Securities Inc. (currently SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.)
November 2007 Managing Director, General Manager of Corporate Planning Department, Aqualine Co., Ltd.
May 2017 Joined the Company
March 2022 Executive Designer, Strategic Design Division (current)
April 2022 Executive Officer
March 2023 Deputy General Manager of Corporate Planning Department (current)
June 2023 Director and Chief Communication Officer (CCO) (current)

Akie Iriyama

Outside Director

Biography

April 1998 Joined Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
August 2003 Retired from the same company
August 2008 Assistant Professor, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo
August 2013 Associate Professor, Waseda University Business School
April 2019 Professor, Waseda University Business School (current)
June 2019 Director of the Company (current)
June 2020 Co-op Sapporo expert director (current),
Outside Director of Sanoh Industrial Co., Ltd. (current)
December 2020 Outside Director of Septeni Holdings Co., Ltd. (current)
June 2021 Outside Director of SORACOM Inc. (current)

Haruka Mera

Outside Director

Biography

July 2014 Founded READYFOR Co., Ltd. Representative Director and CEO (current)
June 2020 Director of the Company (current)

Tatsuo Uemura

Outside Director

Biography

April 1986 Professor, Faculty of Law, Senshu University
August 1990 Professor, Faculty of Law, Rikkyo University
April 1997 Professor, Faculty of Law, Waseda University
October 2003 Director of Research Institute for 21st Century COE (Corporate Law and Legal Creation)
June 2004 Outside Director of JASDAQ Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.
September 2004 Professor, Faculty of Law, Waseda University
June 2006 Shiseido Co., Ltd. Outside Director
September 2006 Dean, Faculty of Law, Waseda University
July 2008 Director of Global COE (Corporate Law and Legal Creation) Research Institute at the same university
April 2012 Executive Committee Member of Japan Broadcasting Corporation
April 2019 Professor Emeritus, Waseda University (current)
July 2020 Outside Director of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company (current)
May 2022 Outside Director of Shochiku Co., Ltd. (current)
June 2022 Director of the Company (current)

Eriko Hayashi

Outside Director

Biography

October 2001 Registered as an attorney, joined Oh-Ebashi Law Office
June 2007 She admitted to the New York State Bar
In January 2010 She became a partner of Oh-Ebashi Law Office
June 2010 Chief Representative of Oh-Ebashi LPC Shanghai Office
March 2019 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Kaizen Platform Co., Ltd. (current)
November 2019 Established Yori Law Office and assumed office as representative (current position)
December 2019 Outside Director of Change Co., Ltd. (current)
August 2021 ERIO (same) representative employee (current)
March 2022 /th> Outside Corporate Auditor of Mujin Co., Ltd. (current)
June 2022 Director of the Company (current)

Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Masanori Kimura

Full-time Auditor

Biography

April 1982 Joined the Company
May 2000 Chief Manager of Corporate Service Department
May 2003 Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of Management Information Headquarters, General Manager of Human Resources & General Affairs Department
July 2004 General Manager of Production Business Headquarters
June 2005 Director
May 2008 General Manager of Management Information Headquarters
May 2009 Head of Healthcare Business Headquarters
May 2013 General Manager of Agri-Farm Division
June 2016 Corporate Auditor (current)

Hideto Uemura

Full-time Auditor

Biography

April 1982 Joined the Company
May 2003 Deputy General Manager of Business Development Headquarters
April 2009 Deputy General Manager of Research and Development Headquarters
May 2010 Executive Officer
May 2015 Senior Executive Officer, General Manager of Marketing Headquarters
June 2017 Director of Corporate Strategy Promotion Headquarters
June 2018 Director, Director of Ueno Techno Center
June 2020 Corporate Auditor (current)

Katsusuke Amano

Auditor

Biography

April 1978 Registered as an attorney, joined Norio Tamura Law Office
April 1983 Transferred to Kitahama Law Office (currently Kitahama Law Office/Foreign Law Joint Enterprise)
January 1985 Partner, Kitahama Law Office (currently same as above)
February 2003 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Aoyama Capital Co., Ltd. (current position)
June 2010 Appointed Outside Director of Gunze Ltd.
June 2012 Corporate Auditor of the Company (current)
January 2020 Partner Attorney at Kitahama Law Office (current position)
March 2020 Outside Corporate Auditor of TOYO TIRE Co., Ltd. (current)

Yasuhiro Tani

Auditor

Biography

October 1981 Joined Asahi Accounting Co. (now KPMG AZSA LLC)
April 1985 Registered as a certified public accountant
April 1986 Established Certified Public Accountant Tani Accounting Office (current)
May 2003 Registered as a tax accountant
April 2006 Professor, GLOBIS University Graduate School of Management (current)
June 2020 Corporate Auditor of the Company (current)
March 2021 Outside Director of Noritz Corporation (current)

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