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Representative Director, President & CEO

Tomoya Higashiura

Tomoya Higashiura

Representative Director, President & CEO

  • Number of Shares Held100,000 shares
  • Attendance at the Board of Directors Meeting100％
  • Major Concurrent PositionsDirector of Asahi Pretec Corp.
    Representative Director of Waste System Japan Corporation
    Chairperson and Director of RENATUS Co., Ltd.
    Director of Japan Waste Corporation
Career History
April 1984 Joined NEC Corporation
February 2001 Joined Asahi Pretec Corp. (currently Japan Waste Corporation)
June 2006 Appointed Director, Senior Vice President of Planning & Administration Department
April 2009 Appointed Director and General Manager of Corporate Development & Administration Division of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.)
June 2010 Appointed Director and General Manager of Precious Metals Recycling Business Division of Asahi Pretec Corp. (currently Japan Waste Corporation)
April 2011 Appointed Director of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.)
June 2014 Appointed Representative Director, President of Asahi Pretec Corp. (currently Japan Waste Corporation)
April 2018 Appointed Representative Director, President of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.)
Appointed Director of Asahi Pretec Corp. (currently Japan Waste Corporation) (to present)
June 2020 Appointed Representative Director, President & CEO of ARE Holdings, Inc. (to present)
April 2023 Appointed Director of Asahi Pretec Corp.(newly established through an absorption-type split and change of trade name) (to present)
March 2024 Appointed Representative Director, President of Waste System Japan Corporation (to present)
Appointed Chairperson and Director of RENATUS Co., Ltd. (to present)

Audit and Supervisory Committee Members

原 良憲

Yoshinori Hara

Independent Outside Director

  • Number of Shares Held-
  • Attendance at the Board of Directors Meeting100％
  • Attendance at the Audit and Supervisory Committee Meetings100%
  • Major Concurrent PositionsAdjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
    Professor of the School of Data Science, Osaka Seikei University
Career History
April 1983 Joined NEC Corporation
August 1990 Became a Visiting Researcher, Stanford University
July 2004 Supervised NEC Kansai Research Laboratories
April 2006 Professor of Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University (to present)
April 2018 Dean of Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
June 2019 Appointed Independent Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
June 2023 Appointed Head of Independent Outside Director of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.) (serving as Chairman of Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) (to present)
April 2024 Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University (to present)
Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University (to present)
Professor of the School of Data Science, Osaka Seikei University (to present)

木村 美代子

Miyoko Kimura

Independent Outside Director

  • Number of Shares Held-
  • Attendance at the Board of Directors Meeting100％
  • Attendance at the Audit and Supervisory Committee Meetings100%
  • Major Concurrent PositionsPresident & CEO of KING JIM CO., LTD.
    Outside Director, JAPAN POST HOLDINGS Co., Ltd.
Career History
April 1988 Joined PLUS Corporation
May 1999 Joined ASKUL Corporation
February 2010 Appointed Representative Director and President of ASMARU Corporation
August 2017 Appointed Director, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Senior Vice President of Life Creation Unit and Value Creation Center Unit of ASKUL Corporation
May 2021 Appointed Director in charge of branding, design, and supplier relations of ASKUL Corporation
June 2021 Appointed Independent Outside Director of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.) (serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) (to present)
September 2022 Appointed Director and Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, R&D Division of KING JIM CO., LTD.
June 2023 Appointed Outside Director of JAPAN POST HOLDINGS Co., Ltd. (to present)
September 2024 Appointed President & CEO of KING JIM CO., LTD. (to present)

鍵本 充敏

Mitsutoshi Kagimoto

Director

  • Number of Shares Held2,000 shares
  • Attendance at the Board of Directors Meeting100％
  • Attendance at the Audit and Supervisory Committee Meetings100%
  • Major Concurrent PositionsAuditor of Asahi Pretec Corp.
Career History
April 1984 Joined Teijin Limited
February 2006 Joined Asahi Pretec Corp. (currently Japan Waste Corporation)
March 2009 Appointed Assistant General Manager of Kitakanto Office of Asahi Pretec Corp. (currently Japan Waste Corporation)
December 2009 Appointed Representative Director and President of JW Glass Recycling Co., Ltd. (currently TRE Glass Corporation)
April 2013 Appointed General Manager of Purchase Division of INTER CENTRAL, INC.
October 2015 Appointed General Manager of Secretariat of Audit and Supervisory Committee of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.)
June 2021 Appointed Director of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.) (full-time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) (to present)
December 2021 Appointed Auditor of Asahi Pretec Corp. (currently Japan Waste Corporation)
April 2023 Appointed Auditor of Asahi Pretec Corp. (newly established through absorption-type split and change of trade name) (to present)

山本 明紀

Akinori Yamamoto

Independent Outside Director

  • Number of Shares Held-
  • Attendance at the Board of Directors Meeting100％
  • Attendance at the Audit and Supervisory Committee Meetings100%
  • Major Concurrent PositionsRepresentative, Yamamoto Certified Public Accountant Office
    Representative Director, GIP Co., Ltd.
Career History
April 2005 Joined Tohmatsu & Co. (currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)
April 2007 Joined GCA Corporation (currently Houlihan Lokey, Inc.)
January 2019 Appointed Partner, Executive Director of GCA Corporation
February 2022 Appointed Executive Director of JPMorgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd.
March 2023 Appointed Representative of Yamamoto Certified Public Accountant Office (to present)
June 2023 Appointed Independent Outside Director of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.) (serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) (to present)
Representative Director of GIP Co., Ltd. (to present)

鶴 由貴

Yuki Tsuru

Independent Outside Director

  • Number of Shares Held-
  • Attendance at the Board of Directors Meeting100％
  • Attendance at the Audit and Supervisory Committee Meetings100%
  • Major Concurrent PositionsLawyer, Kyowa-Sogo Partners Law Office
    Member of Infringement Judgement Advisory Committee
    Customs Technical Advisor
    External Director, Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.
    Part-time Auditor, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation
    Outside Director, SUGIMOTO & CO., LTD
    Outside Director, JAMCO Corporation
Career History
April 2000 Registered in the role of attorneys (joined Tokyo Bar Association)
October 2007 Joined Kyowa-Sogo Partners Law Office (to present)
April 2015 Appointed Member of Infringement Judgement Advisory Committee (to present)
February 2019 Appointed Customs Technical Advisor (to present)
June 2020 Appointed External Director of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. (to present)
June 2021 Appointed Part-time Auditor of National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (to present)
June 2022 Appointed Outside Director of SUGIMOTO & CO., LTD (to present)
Appointed Outside Director of JAMCO Corporation (to present)
June 2023 Appointed Independent Outside Director of Asahi Holdings, Inc. (currently ARE Holdings, Inc.) (serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) (to present)

Corporate Officers

Position Name Major Concurrent Positions
Corporate
Officer		 Tsutomu
Nakashima		 Director and Chairman of Asahi Pretec Corp.
Corporate
Officer		 Nobuo
Tajima		 Representative Director & President of ASAHI METALFINE, Inc.
Corporate
Officer		 Yoshihito
Iwasa		 Representative Director & President of Asahi Pretec Corp.