List of executives / Group companies
(as of Sep 01, 2020)
Chairman Masato Matsuura
Date of birth
As of October 1, 1964
Career
- April, 1988
- Founder and CEO
- March, 1991
- Senior Managing Director
- May, 1996
- General Manager of Product Business
- June, 2000
- Corporate Executive
- August, 2020
- General Manager of Production and Advertising Business
- 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
- July, 2013
- Director of Avex International Holdings Singapore Pte. Ltd. (*2 ) (present post)
- October, 2013
- Representative Director and Chairman of Avex Management Inc.
- December, 2014
- Representative director and Chairman of AWA Inc.
- December, 2016
- President and CEO of Avex Ventures Inc.
- June, 2018
- Chairman and CEO
Manage of CEO Office
- July, 2018
- Representative room
Manage of CEO Headquarters
- April, 2019
- Manage of Technology Headquarters(present post)
(*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
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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)
- June, 2018
- CFO
- July, 2018
- Manage of Management Information Administration,Manage of General Affairs & Personnel Administration,Manage of Financial Affairs(present post)
- April, 2019
- Manage of Public Relations(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,CEO 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
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Founder and CEO of Avex Entertainment Inc.(present post)
Director of Avex Management Inc.(present post)
Director of Avex Classics International Inc.(present post)
- June, 2018
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President and COO
- July, 2018
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General Manager of Business Administration(present post)
- April, 2019
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Manage of New Business Promotion (present post)
(*1) Currently: Avex Management Inc.
(*2) Currently: Avex Entertainment Inc.
(*3) Currently: Avex Asia Pte.Ltd.
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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
100 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)

Avex ASUNARO Company Inc.
Location
Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577
Representative
CEO & President Shingo Toguchi
Avex Creative Factory Inc.
Location
Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577
Representative
Chairman Masato Matsuura
CEO & President Yuta Nakayama
Avex Business Development Inc.
Location
Avex Building, 3-1-30 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8577
Representative
CEO & President Shinsuke Kato

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
Affiliated Companies
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AWA CO.Ltd |
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Memory-Tech Holdings Inc. |
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