Leadership

Career Summary of Directors

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  Katsunori Sugiura

  Representative Director & President
  Date of birth: October 14, 1978

  • March 2006

    Joined the Company

  • March 2011

    Managing Director, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd.

  • March 2014

    Representative Director & President, SUGI Smile Co., Ltd.

  • March 2017

    Representative Director & President, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd. (present post)

  • May 2018

    Representative Director & Senior Vice President, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd.

  • May 2021

    Representative Director & President, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd. (present post)

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  Shinya Sugiura

  Representative Director & Senior Vice President
  Date of birth: November 30, 1979

  • April 2004

    Joined the Company

  • March 2010

    Director, and General Manager of the Home Medical Care Division, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd.

  • March 2011

    Director, SUGI Medical Co., Ltd.

  • March 2017

    Managing Director, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd.

  • May 2017

    Director, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd.

  • May 2021

    Representative Director & President, SUGI Medical Co., Ltd. (present post)

  • December 2021

    Representative Director & President, SUGI Nursing Care Co., Ltd.

  • March 2023

    Director & Senior Vice President, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd.

  • May 2023

    Director & Senior Vice President, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd.

  • September 2024

    Representative Director & President, I&H Co., Ltd.

  • March 2025

    Representative Director & Senior Vice President, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd. (present post)

  • May 2025

    Representative Director & Senior Vice President, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd. (present post)

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  Eiichi Sakakibara

  Director & Chairman
  Date of birth: August 14, 1956

  • September 1986

    Joined the Company

  • September 2008

    Managing Director, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd.

  • March 2011

    Representative Director & President, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd.

  • March 2017

    Representative Director & Chairman, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd.

  • May 2017

    Representative Director & President, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd.

  • May 2021

    Representative Director & Chairman, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd.

  • May 2025

    Director & Chairman, Sugi Pharmacy Co., Ltd. (present post)

  • May 2025

    Director & Chairman, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd. (present post)

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  Shigeyuki Kamino

  External Director
  Date of birth: May 23, 1947

  • April 1970

    Joined Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd.

  • May 2007

    Representative Director, Mie Sangyo Co., Ltd. (present post)

  • June 2008

    Representative Director & Senior Vice President, Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd.

  • April 2009

    Representative Director & President, MEITETSU Department Store Co., Ltd.

  • May 2012

    Chairperson, Chubu Department Store Association

  • May 2015

    External Director, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd. (present post)

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  Shiro Uchida

  External Director
  Date of Birth: April 2, 1955

  • October 1980

    Joined Tokyo Office of Peat Marwick Mitchell Accounting Firm

  • January 1993

    Partner in Charge of Japanese Companies in the U.S. at Chicago Branch, Price, Waterhouse & Co.

  • October 1999

    Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting Co., Ltd.

  • October 2002

    Director, IBM Business Consulting Services KK.

  • October 2005

    Representative Director and President, BearingPoint Co., Ltd.

  • May 2009

    Representative Director and President, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consultants Co., Ltd.

  • July 2012

    Representative Director and Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers Co., Ltd.

  • January 2015

    Representative Director and Chairman, SAP Japan Co., Ltd.

  • April 2022

    External Director, SNK Corporation (present post)

  • April 2023

    President, Community Mesh Corporation (present post)

  • May 2024

    External Director, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd. (present post)

  • March 2025

    External Director, Aoyama Zaisan Networks Co., Ltd. (present post)

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  Hideaki Takaishi

  External Director
  Date of Birth: October 7, 1958

  • April 1983

    Joined Mitsubishi Corporation

  • April 2011

    General Manager, Corporate Management Department, Mitsubishi Corporation

  • April 2012

    Representative Director, Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer, IT Frontier Corporation

  • July 2014

    Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Tata Consultancy Services Japan, Ltd.

  • June 2016

    Director and Audit and Supervisory Committee Member, Chiyoda Corporation

  • June 2018

    Director and Executive Managing Officer, Mitsubishi Shoji Construction Materials Corporation

  • April 2021

    External Director, Sanntsu Corporation

  • June 2021

    External Auditor, SystemEXE, Inc. (present post)

  • August 2023

    Full-time Auditor, Legaseed Inc. (present post)

  • May 2024

    External Director, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd. (present post)

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  Kaseri Oura

  External Director
  Date of Birth: October 27, 1975

  • September 1998

    Joined Kyowa Hakko U.S.A.

  • June 2010

    Joined Bristol-Myers Squibb U.S.A.

  • October 2012

    Executive Officer responsible for Research and Development Division, Bristol-Myers Squibb K.K.

  • June 2016

    People & Business Resource Group General Manager, Bristol-Myers Squibb U.S.A.

  • September 2019

    CEO and Executive Director, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund

  • November 2019

    Director, Tokyo American Club

  • September 2021

    Executive General Manager, Labcorp Development Japan K.K. (now Labcorp Laboratories Japan G.K.)

  • May 2022

    Regular Member of Board of Overseers, Temple University Japan Campus

  • November 2023

    Governor, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan

  • May 2024

    External Director, SUGI Holdings Co., Ltd. (present post)

  • February 2025

    Representative Director & President, Illumina K.K. (present post)