January 31, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Name of listed company: ZENRIN Co., Ltd.
Representative: Zenshi Takayama President and CEO
Representative Director
(Securities code: 9474 Stock exchange listings: Tokyo and Fukuoka)
Contact: Yumiko Toshima
Director, Senior Executive
Officer and Head of Corporate
Management Division
(TEL: +81-93-882-9050)
Notice Concerning Change of Representative Directors
ZENRIN Co., Ltd. (the "Company") hereby announces at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on January 31, 2025, to change the Company's representative directors as described below.
1. Names and job titles of newly appointed and retiring representative directors
Name | New title | Current title | |||
Zenshi Takayama | Chairman, | President and CEO, | |||
Representative Director | Representative Director | ||||
Michio Takegawa | President and CEO, | Director, Senior Executive Officer | |||
Representative Director | |||||
and Head of Corporate Strategy | |||||
and Head of Corporate Strategy | |||||
Junya Amita | Director | Executive Vice President, | |||
Representative Director | |||||
- Career summary of newly appointed representative director is shown in the attached document.
- Junya Amita will become a director without representative rights and is scheduled to retire from his position as a director at the expiration of his term of office at the 65th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held in June 2025, and will assume the position of an Advisor to the Company.
2. Reason for change
Under the corporate philosophy of "Contributing to people's lives by creating ZENRIN Geospatial Information," our Group has been working to improve the accuracy of location information and build a service infrastructure to respond to various changes in the business environment in the VUCA era. From the next fiscal year, which will be the period of the next medium- to long-term business plan, we have decided to change our management structure in order to transform ourselves into a company that creates customer value by utilizing these business foundations and aiming to enhance our corporate value and achieve sustainable growth of our Group.
3. Scheduled date of assuming office April 1, 2025
(Attachment)
Career summary of newly appointed representative director
Name | Michio Takegawa | ||
Date of birth | August 18, 1973 | ||
April 1996 | Joined the Company | ||
April 2012 | General Manager, ITS Sales Department 2, Business Group-2 | ||
April 2014 | General Manager, Business Promotion Division, Business Group-2 | ||
Career | |||
April 2016 | General Manager, ADAS Strategy Planning Office | ||
summary | |||
April 2018 | Vice President and Head of IoT Business | ||
April 2022 | Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy | ||
June 2024 | Director, Senior Executive Officer and Head of Corporate Strategy | ||
Number of | 4,777 shares | (as of September 30, 2024) | |
shares held | |||