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（as of Nov 7, 2019）

Executives

Chairman,CEO	Masato Matsuura
President,COO	Katsumi Kuroiwa
CFO	Shinji Hayashi
Director (part-time)	Toru Kenjo
Director (external)	Hiroyuki Ando
Director (external)	Keiichi Okubo
Auditor (full-time)	Shinkichi Iwata
Auditor (full-time)	Nobuyuki Kobayashi
Auditor (external)	Akihiro Tamaki
Auditor (external)	Teruo Yamamoto
Group Executive	Hideo Katsumata
	Hisaou Wakaizumi
	Seiichi Hatamoto
	Shinsuke Kato
	Yasuhiro Yamamoto
	Hajime Shibata
	Shingo Toguchi
	Asahi Iwanaga
Executive	Daisuke Matsuda

Chairman,CEO Masato Matsuura

Date of birth

As of October 1, 1964

Career

April, 1988: Founder and CEO
March, 1991: Senior Managing Director
August, 2004: Senior Managing Director and Resigned Director Company Executive
September, 2004: Company's Founder and CEO
April, 2005: Founder and CEO of Avex Entertainment Inc. (*1)
April, 2009: Representative Director and Chairman of Avex Telecommunications Broadcasting Inc.
April, 2010: Company President and CEO Head of President's Office (present post)
July, 2013: Director of Avex International Holdings Singapore Pte. Ltd. (*2 )
October, 2013: Representative Director and Chairman of Avex Management Inc.
December, 2014: Representative director and Chairman of AWA Inc. (present post)
December, 2016: President and CEO of Avex Ventures Inc.

(*1) Currently: Avex Digital Inc.
(*2) Currently: Avex Asia Pte. Ltd.

CFO Shinji Hayashi

Date of birth

As of June 8, 1964

Career

May, 1990: Joined Avex
April, 1993: Company Director
June, 1996: Company Managing Director
June, 2000: Company Managing Director, Exec; utive
August, 2002: ompany Managing Director, Exec
utive and Head of Organization Division
January, 2009: Director of Avex Management Inc.
February, 2009: Managing Director of Avex Entertainment Inc. (*1)
April, 2009: Director of Avex Communications Broadcasting (present post)
April, 2010: Company Representative Director and CBO, Comp
liance Officer (present post)President and CEO of Avex Marketing Inc. (*2)
June, 2014: Company Representative Director and CMO
June, 2016: Company Director
Company Corporate Executive and COO
Company Chairman of Compliance Committee(present post)
Member of the Company's Retribution Committee (present post)
Company's Risk Management Officer (present post)
January, 2017: Company Director and COO
April, 2017: Director of Avex Entertainment Inc. (present post)

(*1) Currently: Avex Digital Inc.
(*2) Currently: Avex Music · Creative Inc.

Director (part-time) Richard Blackstone

Date of birth

As of April 1, 1960

Career

August, 1988: Attorney-at-law, Zissu, Stein & Mosher(Alan Bergman, Esg.)(licensed in NY)
August, 1989: Director of Business Affairs, Zomba Enterprises, Inc.
June, 1997: Head of Creative & Head of Business Affairs, Zomba Enterprises, Inc.
August, 2003: President, Zomba Music Publishing, BMG Music Publishing, North America
May, 2005: Worldwide Chairman／CEO, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
September, 2010: Chief Creative Officer, BMG US, BMG Rights Management(US), LLC
February, 2012: EVP, Creative & Business Development BMG US
January, 2015: CEO, Blackstone Entertainment, Inc. (present post)
February, 2016: Company Executive Officer
June, 2016: Company Director (present post)
Company's Corporate Executive
President and CEO of Avex International Inc.
Executive Vice President of Avex International Holding Corporation

Director (part-time) Toru Kenjo

Date of birth

As of December 29, 1950

Career

September, 1991: Director and Head of Editorial Dept. At Kadokawa Shoten Inc.
November, 1993: Founder,Presi; dent and CEO of Gentosha Inc. (present post)
October, 2005: President and CEO of Touchdown Inc. (present post)
May, 2009: Senior advisor at Avex Telecommunications Broadcasting Inc. (present post)
June, 2009: President and CEO of Gentosha Inc. (present post)
June, 2010: Company Director (part-time) (present post)
April, 2011: External Director of Brangista Inc. (present post)
March, 2012: President and CEO of Cab Inc. (present post)
November, 2014: External Director of Tetsujin Inc.

Currently:Kadokawa Corporation

Director (external) Hiroyuki Ando

Date of birth

As of February 4, 1964

Career

April, 1986: Joined HOYA Corporation
January, 1992: Researcher at Sanno University's General Research Institute
April, 2004: Faculty Member of Management Information Dept. at the same University
September, 2005: Master of Science at the Wales National University,UK
April, 2006: Senior researcher at Sanno University's General Research Institute
April, 2008: Professor at the General Research Institute of the same university's Graduate School (MBA Course)
November, 2009: Keio Academic Enterprise Co.,Ltd (Keio Marunouchi City Campus) Senior Consultant
May, 2013: Consultant at Keio Marunouchi City Campus (present post)
June, 2016: Company External Director (present post)
June, 2017: Member of the Company's Retribution Committee (present post)

Director (external) Keiichi Okubo

Date of birth

As of April 15, 1944

Career

April, 1972: Prosecutor at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office
April, 1991: Head of Security Section at the Ministry of Justice's Department of Immigration
April, 1995: Head of Criminal Division at Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office
October, 1996: Head of Public Security Division at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office
August, 1997: Head of Trial Division at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office
September, 1999: Prosecutor at Supreme Public Prosecutors Office
September, 2000: Chief Prosecutor at Kochi District Public Prosecutors Office
April, 2002: Chief Prosecutor at Sapporo District Public Prosecutors Office
April, 2004: Notary at Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau
June, 2012: External Corporate Auditor at Mitsui-Soko Inc. (currently: Mitsui-Soko Holdings Inc.)
June, 2016: Retired from the above company
October, 2016: Lawyer (present post)
June, 2017: Company External Director (present post) Member of Compliance Committee

Auditor Shinkichi Iwata

Date of birth

As of November 3, 1947

Career

April, 1993: Joined Avex, Head of Management Planning Office
March, 1995: Company Director
June, 2000: Company Director, Group Executive
April, 2001: Company Director, Executive, Head of Chairman's Office
June, 2002: Company Executive, Group Executive of Avex Network Inc.*President and CEO
April, 2004: Director and Chairman of the above company
June, 2004: Company Director, Vice Head of Management Division and Head of General Affairs Department
October, 2004: Company Director and Head of General Affairs Department of the Group Management Division
June, 2005: Company auditor (full-time) (present post)

*Currently: Avex Music Creative Inc.

Auditor Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Date of birth

As of September 4, 1956

Career

October, 1998: Joined Avex Distribution Inc.*
July, 1999: Director of the above company
April, 2004: Managing Director of the above company
April, 2007: Director of Avex Marketing Inc.*
May, 2010: Executive and Head of 2ndSales Promotion Division of the above company
July, 2011: Executive and Head of Management Division of the above company
June, 2013: Company auditor (full-time) (present post)

*Currently: Avex Music Creative Inc.

Auditor Akihiro Tamaki

Date of birth

As of October 25, 1966

Career

September, 1994: Joined the New York Office of PriceWaterhouse (*1)
September, 1996: Joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (*2)
March, 1998: US-Certified Public Accountant
January, 2000: Joined Intellaset Inc.
July, 2001: Joined Innovation & Initiative, Inc. (*3 )
June, 2006: Founder and Representative Director of PSY-fa Inc. (present post)
June, 2008: Company's External Corporate Auditor (present post)
June, 2010: External Director of SBI Holdings Inc.
December, 2014: Member of the Company's Investment Review Committee
June, 2016: Member of the Company's Retribution Committee (present post)

*Currently1:PricewaterhouseCoopers
*Currently2:Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
*Currently3:INVENIO Co., Ltd.

Auditor Teruo Yamamoto

Date of birth

As of August 28, 1951

Career

April, 1974: Joined Kao Sekken Inc. (currently: Kao Inc)
May, 1985: Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Illinois, USA
June, 1988: Treasurer at Kao Corporation of America
February, 1998: Head of IR Dept. at Kao Inc.
February, 1999: Head of Finance Dept. at the above company
February, 2006: Director, Managing Executive, Head of the Corporate Planning Office and Financial Accounting Officer at Kanebo Cosmetics Inc.
June, 2009: Director of Kao Inc.
March, 2011: General Manager of Accounting & Finance Department at the above company
December, 2014: Retired from the above company
May, 2016: Company's Advisory Agreement
March, 2017: Termination of contract at above company
June, 2017: Company's External Auditor (present post)

President,COO Katsumi Kuroiwa

Date of birth

As of January 19, 1972

Career

May, 2001: Joined Axev inc. (*1)
April, 2005: Director of Avex Live Creative Inc. (*2)
April, 2010: Executive of the above company
May, 2012: Director of Avex Taiwan Inc.
June, 2012: President and CEO of Avex Live Creative Inc. (*2)
October, 2013: Executive of Avex International Holdings Singapore Pte.Ltd. (*3)
June, 2016: Company’s Corporate Executive
January, 2017: Company’s Group Executive
April, 2017: Founder and CEO of Avex Entertainment Inc.(present post)
Director of Avex Management Inc.(present post)
Director of Avex Classics International Inc.(present post)