News Release
Notice of Candidates for Directors (excluding Directors serving as Audit & Supervisory Committee Members), Audit & Supervisory Committee Members and Substitute Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
- IR
2024/05/10
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(Translation)
Dear all,
Name of Company: SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC.
Name of Representative: Haruki Satomi,
President and Group CEO, Representative Director
(Code No. 6460, Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime)
Further Inquiry: Makoto Takahashi,
Executive Vice President, Executive Officer,
Managing Director of Corporate Planning Division
(TEL: 03-6864-2400)
Notice of Candidates for Directors
(excluding Directors serving as Audit & Supervisory Committee Members),
Audit & Supervisory Committee Members and Substitute Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC. (the “Company”) hereby notifies that it has determined at the Board of Directors meeting today, the candidates for its Directors (excluding Directors serving as Audit & Supervisory Committee Members), Audit & Supervisory Committee Members and Substitute Audit & Supervisory Committee Member to be proposed at the Company’s 20th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 25, 2024, as described below.
Description
- Candidates for Directors (excluding Directors serving as Audit & Supervisory Committee Members)
|
Name |
Appointment Type |
Present Position |
|
Hajime Satomi |
Reappointment |
Chairman, Representative Director |
|
Haruki Satomi |
Reappointment |
President and Group CEO, Representative Director |
|
Koichi Fukazawa |
Reappointment |
Senior Executive Vice President and Group CFO, Director of the Board |
|
Shuji Utsumi |
New Appointment |
― |
|
Ayumu Hoshino |
New Appointment |
― |
|
Kohei Katsukawa |
Reappointment |
Director of the Board (External) |
|
Melanie Brock |
Reappointment |
Director of the Board (External) |
|
Fujiyo Ishiguro |
Reappointment |
Director of the Board (External) |
|
Ankur Sahu |
New Appointment |
― |
*Kohei Katsukawa, Melanie Brock, Fujiyo Ishiguro, and Ankur Sahu are candidates for External Director.
- Candidates for Audit & Supervisory Committee Members
|
Name |
Appointment Type |
Present Position |
|
Hiroshi Ishikura |
New Appointment |
― |
|
Kazutaka Okubo |
Reappointment |
Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (External) |
|
Naoko Murasaki |
Reappointment |
Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (External) |
|
Makiko Ushijima |
New Appointment |
― |
*Kazutaka Okubo, Naoko Murasaki, and Makiko Ushijima are candidates for External Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member.
- Candidate for Substitute Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
|
Name |
Appointment Type |
Present Position |
|
Kiyotaka Kunihiro |
New Appointment |
― |
*Kiyotaka Kunihiro is a candidate for substitute Standing Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
- Brief Career Profile of the Candidates for Newly Appointed Director
|
Name |
Shuji Utsumi |
|
|
Date of Birth |
April 19, 1961 |
|
|
Brief career profile |
April 1986 |
Joined Sony Corporation |
|
|
October 1994 |
Vice President, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. |
|
|
October 1996 |
Senior Vice President (Director of the Board), Sega of America Inc. |
|
|
October 2000 |
Head of Asia Pacific, Disney Interactive Asia |
|
|
October 2014 |
President (Director of the Board), Warner Music Japan Inc. |
|
|
July 2016 |
President (Director of the Board), CYBIRD Co., Ltd. |
|
|
May 2019 |
Vice President, Senior Executive Officer, SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC., |
|
|
May 2019 |
Vice President, Senior Executive Officer, SEGA GROUP CORPORATION (now SEGA CORPORATION) |
|
|
April 2020 |
CSO (Chief Strategy Officer), SEGA CORPORATION |
|
|
April 2021 |
Co-COO, of the above |
|
|
April 2021 |
CEO, Sega of America Inc. (current position) |
|
|
April 2021 |
Vice Chairman of the Board, ATLUS. CO., LTD. (current position) |
|
|
April 2022 |
Chairman of the Board, Sega Sapporo Studio Co., Ltd. |
|
|
April 2023 |
Co-COO, SEGA CORPORATION, |
|
|
September 2023 |
Chair of the Board of Directors, Rovio Entertainment Corporation (current position) |
|
|
January 2024 |
CEO, Sega Europe Ltd. (current position) |
|
|
April 2024 |
President and COO, Representative Director, SEGA CORPORATION (current position) |
|
|
April 2024 |
Director of the Board, TMS ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD. (current position) |
|
|
April 2024 |
Director of the Board, SEGA FAVE CORPORATION (current position) |
|
Name |
Ayumu Hoshino |
|
|
Date of Birth |
July 5, 1969 |
|
|
Brief career profile |
April 1995 |
Joined Sammy Corporation |
|
|
October 2006 |
Creative Officer (Executive Officer), Sammy Corporation |
|
|
August 2011 |
Director of the Board, RODEO Co., Ltd. |
|
|
April 2014 |
Senior Executive Officer (Division Manager of Research & Development Division), Sammy Corporation |
|
|
June 2014 |
Director of the Board, (Division Manager of Research & Development Division), of the above |
|
|
April 2016 |
Executive Vice President, Representative Director (Division Manager of Research & Development Group Division, Division Manager of Technical Research & Development Division and Development Promotion Division) of the above |
|
|
November 2019 |
President & CEO, ZEEG Co. Ltd. |
|
|
April 2020 |
Director of the Board, SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC. |
|
|
June 2021 |
Councilor, The Nikkoso Research Foundation for Safe Society (current position) |
|
|
April 2022 |
Senior Executive Vice President and COO, Representative Director (in charge of Research & Development Group Division and Managing Director of Public Relations Division) , Sammy Corporation |
|
|
April 2024 |
President & COO, Representative Director (Managing Director of Public Relations Division) of the above (current position) |
|
|
April 2024 |
CEO, ZEEG LLC. (current position) |
|
Name |
Ankur Sahu |
|
|
Date of Birth |
October 18, 1969 |
|
|
Brief career profile |
October 1998 |
Partner Managing Director, Co-head Asia Pacific, Merchant Banking Division, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. |
|
|
August 2005 |
Director of the Board (External), of USJ Co., Ltd.（now USJ LLC） |
|
|
March 2006 |
Director of the Board (External), of SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. |
|
|
March 2011 |
Director of the Board (External), of eAccess Ltd.（now SoftBank Corp.） |
|
|
November 2011 |
Director of the Board (External), of Japan Renewable Energy Corporation（now ENEOS Renewable Energy Corporation） |
|
|
August 2019 |
Founder & Managing Partner, Kyoto Pacific Capital, Inc. |
|
|
March 2023 |
Appointed as Outside Corporate Auditor of airweave Inc. (current position) |
|
|
December 2023 |
Founder & Managing Partner, Kyoto Pacific Capital, Inc. (current position) |
- Brief Career Profile of the Candidates for Newly Appointed Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
|
Name |
Hiroshi Ishikura |
|
|
Date of Birth |
June 30, 1965 |
|
|
Brief career profile |
April 1988 |
Joined Aoyama Audit Corporation (now PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan LLC) |
|
|
August 1990 |
Certified Public Accountant registered |
|
|
August 1995 |
Joined Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu International (now Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC) |
|
|
July 1998 |
Joined Capital Management, INC |
|
|
July 2003 |
Joined Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu International (now Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC) |
|
|
May 2004 |
Partner of the above |
|
|
January 2006 |
Joined Sammy Networks Co., Ltd. Director of Corporate Planning Office |
|
|
June 2006 |
Executive Vice President, Director of the Board of the above |
|
|
May 2012 |
Joined of the Company Deputy Managing Director of Group Internal Control Office, Group CSR Promotion Office and Internal Audit Office |
|
|
April 2013 |
Certified Internal Auditor registered |
|
|
June 2013 |
Vice President, Executive Officer and Managing Director of Group Internal Control Office, Group CSR Promotion Office and Internal Audit Office of the Company |
|
|
April 2021 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SEGA CORPORATION (current position) |
|
|
June 2021 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of DARTSLIVE Co., Ltd. (current position) |
|
|
June 2021 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SEGA Logistics Service Co., Ltd. (current position) |
|
|
June 2022 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SEGA SAMMY GOLF ENTERTAINMENT INC. (current position) |
|
|
September 2022 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Sunrockers,Ltd. (current position) |
|
Name |
Makiko Ushijima |
|
|
Date of Birth |
April 10, 1965 |
|
|
Brief career profile |
April 1989 |
Joined the Defense Agency (now the Ministry of Defense) |
|
|
May 1995 |
Registered as a New York lawyer |
|
|
November 1995 |
Joined Shearman & Sterling LLP |
|
|
May 1998 |
Joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
|
|
July 2002 |
Executive Officer and Head of Legal Office of GE Fleet Services Corporation |
|
|
February 2003 |
Joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP |
|
|
July 2008 |
Registered as a US certified public accountant (Illinois) |
|
|
December 2008 |
Registered as a lawyer (First Tokyo Bar Association) |
|
|
December 2008 |
Joined Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
|
|
July 2011 |
Joined Sidley Austin Foreign Law Joint Enterprise |
|
|
February 2017 |
Joined Jones Day Tokyo (Of Counsel) (current position) |
|
|
September 2019 |
Director (External/Independent Director) of BrainPad Inc. |
|
|
September 2023 |
Director（External/Independent Director, Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee) of the above (current position) |
- Brief Career Profile of the Candidates for Newly Appointed Substitute Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
|
Name |
Kiyotaka Kunihiro |
|
|
Date of Birth |
April 30, 1957 |
|
|
Brief career profile |
April 1980 |
Joined Computer Services Corporation (now SCSK Corporation) |
|
|
October 1991 |
Joined Sega Enterprises, Ltd., (now SEGA CORPORATION) |
|
|
July 2001 |
Deputy Director of Accounting and Finance Division, SEGA CORPORATION |
|
|
October 2004 |
General Manager of Accounting and Finance Division, of the above |
|
|
October 2009 |
General Manager of Budget Management Department, of the above |
|
|
April 2017 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of TMS ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD. (current position) |
|
|
June 2019 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SEGA TOYS CO., LTD. (now SEGA FAVE CORPORATION) (current position) |
|
|
June 2020 |
Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SEGA CORPORATION (current position) |
|
|
June 2021 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of ATLUS. CO., LTD. (current position) |
|
|
April 2024 |
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of WAVEMASTER INC. (current position) |
- Directors to be retired
|
Name |
Present Position |
|
Yukio Sugino |
Senior Executive Vice President, Director of the Board |
|
Hideo Yoshizawa |
Senior Vice President, Director of the Board |
* Yukio Sugino is scheduled to retire the position of Director at the end of the Company’s 20th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 25, 2024, but he will continue to serve as President and Co-COO, Representative Director of SEGA CORPORATION.
*Hideo Yoshizawa is scheduled to retire the position of Director at the end of the Company’s 20th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 25, 2024, but he will continue to serve as Vice President, Executive Officer of the Company.
- Audit & Supervisory Board Members to be retired
|
Name |
Present Title |
|
Yukito Sakaue |
Director, Standing Audit and Supervisory Committee Member |
|
Shione Kinoshita |
Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (External) |
* Yukito Sakaue and Shione Kinoshita are scheduled to retire the position of Audit & Supervisory Board Member at the end of the Company’s 20th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 25, 2024.
*Yukito Sakaue will continue to serve as Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
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