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Executives
Skill Matrix
As of January 7, 2025
| Skills and Experience | ||||||||
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| Corporate Management |
Education Industry |
Personnel/ human resources development |
Marketing /Sales |
Compliance / Risk Management |
Finance / Accounting | IT | ||
| Shigeki Matsuo | President and Representative Director | |||||||
| Keiji Takigawa | Director | |||||||
| Hisano Murakami | Director (outside) | |||||||
| Koetsu Sanga | Director (outside) | |||||||
| Hideki Hasegawa | Director (outside) | |||||||
| Keiko Hirayama | Director (outside) | |||||||
- Position
- Name
- President and Representative Director
- Shigeki Matsuo
Date of Birth
March 20, 1969
Career History
Apr. 1991 Joined Fukutake Publishing Co., Ltd. (currently Benesse Holdings, Inc.) Jan. 2007 General Manager of the Elementary and Junior High School Business Division at Benesse Corporation (currently Benesse Holdings, Inc.) Jan. 2012 General Manager of the U.S. Business Development Office at Benesse Corporation Feb. 2012 President and Representative Director at Benesse America Inc. Aug. 2015 General Manager of the Domestic English Company’s Corporate Business Division at Benesse Corporation Dec. 2015 President and CEO of Berlitz Japan, Inc. June 2016 Director at Simul International, Inc. Jan. 2023 Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of the Off-Campus Learning Company and General Manager of the Cram School and Classroom Business Division at Benesse Corporation Apr. 2023 Director at Tokyo Educational Institute Co., Ltd.
Director at Benesse BE studio Inc.
Director at Kyoto Rakusai Yobikou Co., Ltd.May 2023 Director at Tokyo Individualized Educational Institute June 2023 Director at UP Inc. Oct 2023 Executive Officer, General Manager of the Off-Campus Learning Company and General Manager of the Cram School May 2024 President and Representative Director of TIEI (current position)
- Director
- Keiji Takigawa
Date of Birth
Feb 6,1970
Career History
Dec. 1993 Joined EDUTECH JAPAN Co., Ltd. Mar. 2005 Deputy General Manager of the Operations Department Mar. 2006 Manager of the Operations Department Mar. 2008 Deputy General Manager of Operations Headquarters Mar. 2010 Head of Operations Headquarters Mar. 2013 General Manager/School Director Mar. 2019 Director and CEO June 2023 Off-Campus Learning Company Advisor and Cram School/Classroom Business Expert at Benesse Corporation May 2024 Director of Tokyo Individualized Educational Institute (TIEI) (current position)
- Director (outside)
- Hisano Murakami
Date of Birth
Feb 28,1969
Career History
Apr. 1991 Joined Fukutake Publishing Co., Ltd. (currently Benesse Holdings, Inc.) Apr. 2000 General Manager of the Elementary School Course Division at Benesse Corporation (currently Benesse Holdings Inc.) Apr. 2008 Executive Officer, General Manager of the Assistant High School Course Division Apr. 2013 General Manager of the Human Resources Division at Benesse Corporation Apr. 2014 Director and General Manager of the Human Resources Division Apr. 2016 Executive General Manager of Product Infrastructure Headquarters Apr. 2020 Executive Officer, Executive General Manager of Business Infrastructure Headquarters Apr. 2022 Director, Executive Officer, Executive General Manager of Business Infrastructure Headquarters Jan. 2023 Director, Executive Officer, Executive General Manager of Human Resources Headquarters Apr. 2023 Executive Officer, CHRO and Executive General Manager of Human Resources Headquarters at Benesse Holdings, Inc. Apr. 2024 Managing Executive Officer, CHRO and Executive General Manager of Human Resources and General Affairs Headquarters (current position)
Managing Executive Officer and Executive General Manager of Human Resources and General Affairs Headquarters at Benesse Corporation (current position)
Director at Benesse Business-mate, Inc. (current position)
- Director (outside)
- Koetsu Sanga
Date of Birth
Oct. 30, 1955
Career History
April 1978 Joined Arthur Andersen LLP Nov. 1978 Analyst, Andersen Consulting (currently Accenture Japan Ltd.) Mar. 1981 Registered as Certified Public Accountant Sept. 1990 Partner, Andersen Consulting (currently Accenture Japan Ltd.) Aug. 2000 Representative Director and President, Satiscom Co., Ltd. Feb. 2003 Principal, ABeam Consulting Ltd. June 2018 Advisor, ABeam Consulting Ltd. July 2018 Management Director, DX Business Division Layers Consulting Co., Ltd. May 2020 Outside Director at the Company (current)
- Director (outside)
- Hideki Hasegawa
Date of Birth
Jun 31,1971
Career History
Apr. 1994 Senior Manager at Accenture Japan Ltd May 2008 Executive Officer and CIO at Tokyu Hands Inc. (currently Hands Inc.) Apr. 2013 Representative Director and President of HANDS LAB INC June 2018 Representative Director and President of ROCKESTA INC. (current position) Oct. 2018 Executive Officer and CIO of Mercari, Inc. Jan. 2020 Advisor to YOSHINOYA HOLDINGS CO., LTD. Feb. 2020 Executive Officer and CIO at CO-OP Sapporo (current position) June 2021 Representative Director and President of Cloud First Co., Ltd. (current position) Aug. 2021 Outside Director at BOOKOFF GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED (current position)
- Director (outside)
- Keiko Hirayama
Date of Birth
Apr16,1973
Career History
Apr. 1996 In charge of service planning at NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (currently NTT DOCOMO, Inc.) July 2001 Overseas i-mode Project Lead, NTT DOCOMO, Inc. Mar. 2005 Senior Marketing Manager at Amazon Japan K.K. (currently Amazon Japan G.K.) May 2007 Consumer Marketing Manager at Google Japan Inc. (currently Google Japan G.K.) Apr. 2013 Head of YouTube marketing Oct. 2013 Head of YouTube Marketing and Head of Brand Marketing Feb. 2015 Head of Brand Marketing and Head of Search Marketing Apr. 2017 Head of Brand Marketing, Head of Search Marketing, and Co-chair of Women@Google Japan May 2018 Head of Japan Marketing at Uber Technologies, Inc. Sep. 2018 Japan Lead at Women of Uber Mar. 2021 Marketing & Franchise Development Director at The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd. Sep. 2021 Marketing & Franchise Development Director and WomenBERG Japan Lead Jan. 2023 CMO and Head of Public Relations Department of SJ Mobile Labs Japan Co., Ltd. (currently Habitto Co., Ltd.) Jan. 2024 Founder and Representative Director of Blue Blossom Co., Ltd. (current position)
- Audit & Supervisory Board Member (Full-Time)
- Yutaka Fujita
Date of Birth
May 4, 1955
Career History
Sept. 1994 Joined the Company Sept. 1996 General Manager of the Metropolitan Area Business Division's No. 1 Regional Supervisory Department June 1998 General Manager of the Personnel Department July 2000 General Manager of the Human Resources Development Division Nov. 2002 General Manager of the Metropolitan Area No. 10 Regional Business Department June 2003 General Manager of the Kyushu Regional Business Department Oct. 2007 General Manager of the Personnel Department June 2012 General Manager of Customer Consultation Rooms Feb. 2013 Chair of the Crisis Management Committee May 2013 Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Board Member (current) Mar. 2021 Audit & Supervisory Board Member of HRBC Co., Ltd. (current)
- Audit & Supervisory Board Member
- Naoto Saito
Date of Birth
May 11, 1963
Career History
Apr. 1986 Joined Fukutake Publishing Co., Ltd. (currently Benesse Holdings, Inc.) Nov. 2005 Expert Member of the Financial Services Agency's Business Accounting Council Jan. 2010 General Manager of the Accounting Division at Benesse Corporation Apr. 2012 Director and Accounting Division General Manager at the Company Mar. 2015 Director at Berlitz Japan, Inc. Apr. 2015 Director at Benesse Corporation May 2015 Audit & Supervisory Board Member at TIEI (current position) Apr. 2016 Group Controller and Internal Auditing Division General Manager at Benesse Holdings, Inc.
Director of Accounting & Performance Management and Internal Auditing Division General Manager at Benesse CorporationJuly 2016 Group Controller, General Manager of the Finance & Accounting Division, and General Manager of the Internal Auditing Division at Benesse Holdings, Inc.
Director, General Manager of the Finance & Accounting Division, and General Manager of the Internal Auditing Division at Benesse CorporationOct. 2016 General Manager of the Finance & Accounting Division at Benesse Holdings, Inc.
Director and Finance & Accounting Division General Manager at Benesse CorporationJuly 2017 Senior Executive Officer and Finance & Accounting Division General Manager at Benesse Holdings, Inc. Apr. 2018 Senior Executive Officer and Business Administration Division General Manager at Benesse Holdings, Inc.
Director and Business Administration Division General Manager at Benesse CorporationJune 2019 Standing Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Benesse Holdings, Inc. (current)
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Benesse Corporation (current)
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Berlitz Japan, Inc.
- Audit & Supervisory Board Member (outside)
- Masahiro Nagasawa
Date of Birth
Apr. 1, 1954
Career History
Apr. 1979 Joined Araki Tax Accounting Office Oct. 1981 Joined PricewaterhouseCoopers CPA Firm (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC) Apr. 1984 Joined KPMG AZSA & Co. (currently KPMG AZSA LLC) Mar. 1985 Licensed as a certified public accountant Aug. 2002 Partner at Asahi & Co. (currently KPMG AZSA LLC) July 2012 Founded Nagasawa CPA Accounting Office
Appointed Representative of the accounting office (current position)
Representative Director of Seiran Consulting Co., Ltd. (current position)June 2013 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at Iwaki Co., Ltd. (current position) July 2013 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at Ito En, Ltd. May 2014 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at the Company (current position) June 2014 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at Muraki Corporation Dec. 2014 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at Hinokiya Group Co., Ltd. (current position) June 2016 Outside Director at Muraki Corporation
- Audit & Supervisory Board Member (outside)
- Yukio Takami
Date of Birth
Nov. 2, 1955
Career History
Apr. 1984 Licensed as a lawyer by the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association
Joined Naritomi General Law FirmApr. 2001 Opened Nishikomi & Takami Law Firm Apr. 2007 Vice-President of the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association Apr. 2011 Part-Time Director of Radiopress Inc. (current position) June 2013 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at DM Solutions Co., Ltd. (current position) May 2015 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at the Company (current position) June 2016 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at Enshu Truck Co., Ltd. June 2018 Outside Director at Enshu Truck Co., Ltd. (current position)