List of executives / Group companies

Representative Director and Chairman
Masato Matsuura

Date of birth

As of October 1, 1964

Career

Apr, 1988

Established the Company, Director

Mar, 1991

Senior Executive Director of the Company

Mar, 1996

Chief of Product Business Headquarters of the Company

Jun, 2000

Corporate Executive of the Company

Aug, 2002

Chief of Production and Promotions Headquarters of the Company

Aug, 2004

Resigned as Senior Executive Director and Director / Member of the Board of the Company

Aug, 2004

Corporate Executive of the Company

Sep, 2004

Representative Director and President of the Company

Apr, 2005

President of Avex Entertainment Inc. (currently Avex Digital Inc.)

Apr, 2009

Chairman of the Board of Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc.

Apr, 2010

Representative Director, CEO, in charge of President's Office of the Company

Jul, 2013

Director of Avex International Holdings Singapore Pte. Ltd. (currently Avex Asia Pte. Ltd.) (to present)

Oct, 2013

Chairman of the Board of Avex Management Inc.

Dec, 2014

Chairman of the Board of AWA Co. Ltd.

Nov, 2016

President of Avex Ventures Inc.

Jun, 2018

Representative Director and Chairman, CEO, in charge of President's Office of the Company

Jul, 2018

In charge of Representative Office and CEO's Office of the Company

Apr, 2019

In charge of Technology Department of the Company

Jun, 2020

Representative Director and Chairman of the Company (to present)

Jul, 2020

Representative Director and Chairman, Avex Creative Factory Inc. (to present)

Representative Director, CFO
Shinji Hayashi

Date of birth

As of June 8, 1964

Career

May, 1990

Joined the Company

Apr, 1993

Director of the Company

Jun, 1996

Executive Director of the Company

Jun, 2000

Corporate Executive of the Company

Aug, 2002

Chief of Compiling Headquarters of the Company

Jan, 2009

Director of Avex Management Inc.

Feb, 2009

Executive Director of Avex Entertainment Inc.(currently Avex Digital Inc.)

Apr, 2009

Director of Avex Broadcasting & CommunicationsInc. (to present)

Apr, 2010

Representative Director, CB0 of the Company

Apr, 2010

Responsible for Compliance of the Company (to present)

Apr, 2010

President of Avex Marketing Inc. (currently Avex Entertainment Inc.)

Jun, 2014

Representative Director, CMO of the Company

Jun, 2016

Director, Corporate Executive, COO of the Company

Jun, 2016

Chairperson of the Compliance Committee, Member of the Compensation Committee (to present); responsible for Risk Management of the Company (to present)

Jan, 2017

Director, COO of the Company

Apr, 2017

Director of Avex Entertainment Inc.

Jun, 2018

Representative Director, CFO of the Company (to present)

Jul, 2018

In charge of Management Administration Department, HR and General Affairs Department, and Accounting and Legal Affairs Department of the Company (to present)

Apr, 2019

In charge of PR Office of the Company (to present)

Jun, 2020

Member of the Compliance Committee of the Company (to present)

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

Sep, 1991

Director and General Manager, Editing Department of Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. (currently KADOKAWA CORPORATION)

Nov, 1993

Established GENTOSHA INC., Representative Director and President (to present)

Oct, 2005

Representative Director and President of Touchdown Co., Ltd. (to present)

May, 2006

Executive Advisor of Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc. (to present)

Jun, 2010

Director (part-time) of the Company (to present)

Mar, 2012

Representative Director and President of Kab, Inc. (to present)

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)

Board Director and Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Outside)
Keiichi Okubo

Date of birth

As of April 15, 1944

Career

Apr, 1972

Prosecutor of Tokyo District Public ProsecutorsOffice

Apr, 1991

Director of the Enforcement Division, Immigration Bureau of Ministry of Justice

Apr, 1995

Director-General of the Criminal Affairs Department of Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office

Oct, 1996

Director-General of the Public Security Department of Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office

Aug, 1997

Director-General of the Trial Department of Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office

Sep, 1999

Prosecutor of Supreme Public Prosecutors Office

Sep, 2000

Chief Prosecutor of Kochi District Public Prosecutors Office

Apr, 2002

Chief Prosecutor of Sapporo District Public Prosecutors Office

Apr, 2004

Notary Public belonging to Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau

Jun, 2012

Outside Corporate Auditor of MITSUI-SOKO Co., Ltd. (currently Mitsui-Soko Holdings Co., Ltd.)

Oct, 2016

Attorney-at-law (to present)

Jun, 2017

Outside Director of the Company (to present)

Jun, 2017

Member of the Compliance Committee of the Company (to present)

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.

Board Director and Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Full-Time)
Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Date of birth

As of September 4, 1956

Career

Oct, 1998

Joined Avex Distribution, Inc. (currently Avex Entertainment Inc.)

Jul, 1999

Director of Avex Distribution, Inc.

Apr, 2004

Executive Director of Avex Distribution, Inc.

Apr, 2007

Director of Avex Marketing Inc. (currently Avex Entertainment Inc.)

May, 2010

Corporate Executive, Head of Sales & Promotion 2 Division of Avex Marketing Inc.

Jul, 2011

Corporate Executive, Head of Administration Division of Avex Marketing Inc.

Jun, 2013

Full-time Auditor of the Company (to present)

Dec, 2016

Auditor of NexTone Inc. (to present)

Board Director and Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Outside)
Akihiro Tamaki

Date of birth

As of October 25, 1966

Career

Sep, 1994

Joined Price Waterhouse LP (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP), New York

Sep, 1996

Joined Deloitte Touch Tohmatsu (currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)

Mar, 1999

Registered as a U.S. certified public accountant

Dec, 1999

Retired from Deloitte Touch Tohmatsu (currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)

Jan, 2000

Joined IntellAsset, Inc.

Jul, 2001

Joined INNOVATION & INITIATIVE Co., Ltd. (currently INVENIO Co., Ltd.)

Jun, 2006

Established PSY-fa Co., Ltd., Representative Director (to present)

Jun, 2008

Outside Auditor of the Company (to present)

Jun, 2010

Outside Director of BI Holdings, Inc.

Jun, 2016

Member of the Compensation Committee of the Company (to present)

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)

Representative Director, CEO
Katsumi Kuroiwa

Date of birth

As of January 19, 1972

Career

May, 2001

Joined Axev, Inc. (currently Avex Management Inc.)

Apr, 2005

Director of Avex Live Creative Inc. (currently Avex Entertainment Inc.)

Apr, 2010

Corporate Executive of Avex Live Creative Inc.

May, 2012

Director of Avex Taiwan Inc. (to present)

Jun, 2012

Representative Director and President of Avex Live Creative Inc. (currently Avex Entertainment Inc.)

Oct, 2013

Corporate Executive of Avex International Holdings Singapore Pte. Ltd. (currently Avex Asia Pte. Ltd.)

Jun, 2016

Corporate Executive of the Company

Jan, 2017

Group Executive of the Company

Apr, 2017

Representative Director and President of Avex Entertainment Inc. (to present)

Apr, 2017

Director of Avex Management Inc. (to present)

Apr, 2017

Director of Avex Classics International Inc. (to present)

Jun, 2018

Representative Director, COO of the Company

Jul, 2018

Chief of Business Management Department of the Company (to present)

Apr, 2019

In charge of New Business Development Department of the Company

Jun, 2020

Representative Director, CEO, in charge of Technology Department (to present)

Board Director and Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Outside)
Yoshihide Sugimoto

Date of birth

As of October 31, 1980

Career

Dec, 2009

Attorney-at-law (to present)

Dec, 2009

Joined Kiyoshi Suda Law Office

Apr, 2011

Established Legal Partners Law Office (currently Anshin Partners Law Office)

Dec, 2015

Assumed as Director Chairman of Brangista. inc (Outside) (to present)

May, 2017

Assumed as Advisor of Dentons (to present)

May, 2018

Assumed as Advisor of Zhongyunyuezhong (Beijing) Culture Development Co., Ltd. (to present)

Oct, 2018

Assumed as Outside Director of NATTY SWANKY(to present)

Avex Entertainment Inc.

Location

Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu-Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073

Capital

200 million yen

Representative

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

Avex Digital Inc.

Location

Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu-Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073

Capital

100 million yen

Representative

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

Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc.

Location

Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu-Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073

Capital

3,500 million yen

Representative

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

Avex Travel Creative Inc.

Location

Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu-Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073

Capital

1 hundred million yen

Representative

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

AVEX AY FACTORY LLC.

Location

Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu-Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073

Capital

5 million yen　(As of April 20, 2017)

Avex ASUNARO Company Inc.

Location

Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu-Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073

Representative

CEO & President Shingo Toguchi

Avex Creative Factory Inc.

Location

Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu-Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073

Representative

Chairman Masato Matsuura

CEO & President Yuta Nakayama

Avex Business Development Inc.

Location

Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu-Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073

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 Ltd.

Location

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

Capital

10 million Hong Kong dollars

Representative

Director Shunta Takahashi

Avex Shanghai Co.,Ltd.

Location

Bund Center, Suite 1865, 222 Yanan Road (East), Shanghai 200002, PRC

Capital

3,000,000 Renminbi

Representative

Accounting Shinji Miyazaki