Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation
Appointment of Director of the Board*1 (Effective as of June 24, 2026)
New
Current
Name
Director of the Board
Toshiya Katsuragi
Outside Director of the Board
Toshihiro Otsuka
Outside Director of the Board
Yuko Chiyoda
*1 To be appointed subject to approval at the Company's General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 24, 2026.
Retirement of Director of the Board (Effective as of June 24, 2026)
New
Current
Name
(Retirement)
Outside Director of the Board
Kiyomi Kikuchi
(Retirement)
Outside Director of the Board
Tatsumi Yamada
Directors of the Board, Corporate Executive Officers and Executive Officers (Effective as of June 24, 2026)
Directors of the Board*1
Director of the Board, Chairperson | Nobuo Fukuda |
Director of the Board | Manabu Chikumoto |
Director of the Board | Toshiya Katsuragi |
Outside Director of the Board | Akihiro Eto |
Outside Director of the Board | Shuichi Sakamoto |
Outside Director of the Board | Geoffrey Coates |
Outside Director of the Board | Seiji Kuraishi |
Outside Director of the Board | Toshihiro Otsuka |
Outside Director of the Board | Yuko Chiyoda |
Corporate Executive Officers
Representative Corporate Executive Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer | Manabu Chikumoto |
Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Supervising - Administration, Legal, Internal Control | Isao Yano |
Corporate Executive Officer, Chief Transformation Officer, Supervising - Sustainability, Strategy, Digital, Corporate Development, Communications | Ken Araki |
Executive Officers
Executive Officer, Chief Human Resource Officer | Masahiko Tanaka |
Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer | Minoru Kida |
Executive Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer | Noriyuki Mita |
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Appointment of Corporate Auditors*2 (Effective as of June 22, 2026)
New
Current
Name
Director of the Board
Toshiya Katsuragi*3
*2 To be appointed subject to approval at the Company's General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 22, 2026.
*3 Retired as Chief Technology Officer of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation as of the end of March this year.
Directors of the Board, Corporate Executive Officers and Executive Officers (Effective as of June 22, 2026)
Directors of the Boards
Representative Director of the Board | Manabu Chikumoto |
Representative Director of the Board | Yasuo Shimodaira |
Representative Director of the Board | Kazumitsu Sakurai |
Director of the Board | Isao Yano |
Director of the Board | Ken Araki |
Director of the Board | Nobuo Fukuda |
Corporate Auditor | Masahiro Yoshizumi |
Corporate Auditor | Mikio Kasubuchi |
Corporate Auditor | Tetsuji Suzuki |
Corporate Auditor | Toshiya Katsuragi |
Executive Officers
Representative Director, President and CEO | Manabu Chikumoto |
Representative Director, Managing Executive Officer, Head of Basic Materials | Yasuo Shimodaira |
Representative Director, Managing Executive Officer, Chief Supply Chain Officer | Kazumitsu Sakurai |
Managing Executive Officer, Chief Compliance Officer | Isao Yano |
Managing Executive Officer, Chief Transformation Officer | Ken Araki |
Managing Executive Officer, Head of MMA & Derivatives | Satoshi Kurokawa |
Managing Executive Officer, Head of Films & Performance Materials | Yosuke Egawa |
Executive Officer, Head of Composites & Shapes | Franck Ruel |
Executive Officer, Head of Information Electronics | Satoshi Wakabayashi |
Executive Officer, Head of Polymer Compounds | Hiroki Matsuo |
Executive Officer, Head of Water & Infrastructure | Ryuhei Sato |
Executive Officer, Chief Human Resource Officer | Masahiko Tanaka |
Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer | Minoru Kida |
Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer | Masaru Utsunomiya |
Executive Officer, Chief Legal Officer | Susumu Sakurai |
Executive Officer, Chief Strategy Officer | Naoto Yabe |
Executive Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer | Noriyuki Mita |
Executive Officer, Chief Digital Officer | Naohiko Uramoto |
Executive Officer, Region Head of Americas President and CEO, Mitsubishi Chemical America, Inc. | Frank Randall (Randy) Queen |
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