List of executives / Group companies

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)

(*1) Currently: Avex Management Inc.
(*2) Currently: Avex Entertainment Inc.
(*3) Currently: Avex Asia Pte.Ltd.

Avex Entertainment Inc.

Location

Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577

Capital

200 million yen

Representative

CEO & President　Katsumi Kuroiwa　(As of April 1, 2017)

Avex Digital Inc.

Location

Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577

Capital

487.55 million yen

Representative

CEO & President　Hisaou Wakaizumi　(As of April 1, 2017)

Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc.

Location

Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577

Capital

3,500 million yen

Representative

CEO & President　Hisaou Wakaizumi　(As of June 24, 2016)

Avex Travel Creative Inc.

Location

Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577

Capital

1 hundred million yen

Representative

CEO & President　Ken kato　(As of June 10, 2016)

AVEX AY FACTORY LLC.

Location

Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577

Capital

5 million yen　(As of April 20, 2017)

EntameCoin Inc．

Location

Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577

Capital

990 million yen

Representative

CEO & President　Yuzo Arita

Avex International Holding Corporation

Location

Delaware, USA

Capital

1 million U.S. dollars.

Representative

Chairman and CEO Richard Blackstone
Vice Chairman and COO Ryuhei Chiba　(As of April 1, 2017)

Avex USA Inc.

Location

Los Angeles, California, USA

Representative

Chairman　Hajime Shibata
President　Naoki Osada

Avex Asia Pte. Ltd.

Location

3 Fraser Street #05-21, Duo Tower Singapore 189352

Capital

2,671,000 Singapore Dollars

Representative

CEO & President　Shunta Takahashi

Avex Taiwan Inc.

Location

12F-3, No.88, Dunhua N.Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Capital

215 million NT dollar

Representative

Chairman at Avex Taiwan Inc. (present post) Shinji Miyazaki (As of July 1, 2015)

Avex Taiwan Inc.

Location

12F-3, No.88, Dunhua N.Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Capital

215 million NT dollar

Representative

Chairman at Avex Taiwan Inc. (present post) Shinji Miyazaki (As of July 1, 2015)

Avex China Inc.

Capital

100 million yen

Representative

President Shunta Takahashi
Accounting Shinji Miyazaki

Avex Hong Kong Limited

Location

20/F, Tower 535, 535 Jaffe Road, Causeway Bay

Capital

10 million Hong Kong dollars

Representative

Director Shunta Takahashi