(As of April 1, 2020)
Board of Directors

- Name
- Minoru Usui
- Current position
- Chairman and Director
Work history | |
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November 1979 |
Joined Shinshu Seiki Co., Ltd. (now Seiko Epson Corporation) |
April 1997 |
Appointed General Manager, IJ Development & Design Department, Imaging & Information Products Operations Division |
April 2002 |
Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Imaging & Information Products Operations Division |
June 2002 |
Appointed Director |
November 2004 |
Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, Corporate Research & Development Division |
November 2005 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Production Engineering & Development Division |
July 2007 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Corporate Research & Development Division |
October 2007 |
Appointed Managing Director |
June 2008 |
Appointed President and Representative Director Appointed Chief Executive Officer |
April 2020 |
Appointed Chairman and Director (current position) |

- Name
- Yasunori Ogawa
- Current position
- President and Representative Director
Work history | |
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April 1988 |
Joined Seiko Epson Corporation |
April 2008 |
Appointed General Manager, VI Business Management Department |
October 2008 |
Appointed General Manager, VI Planning & Design Department |
April 2017 |
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Visual Products Operations Division |
June 2017 |
Appointed Executive Officer |
June 2018 |
Appointed Director, Executive Officer |
October 2018 |
Appointed Chief Technology Officer Appointed General Administrative Manager, Technology Development Division |
June 2019 |
Appointed Director, Managing Executive Officer Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Wearable Products & Industrial Solutions Operations Segment |
April 2020 |
Appointed President and Representative Director (current position) Appointed Chief Executive Officer (current position) |

- Name
- Koichi Kubota
- Current position
- Representative Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer
Work history | |
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April 1983 |
Joined Epson Corporation (now Seiko Epson Corporation) |
November 1999 |
Appointed General Manager, Branded Products Marketing & Sales Department |
July 2008 |
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Visual Instruments Operations Division |
June 2010 |
Appointed Executive Officer |
October 2011 |
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Visual Products Operations Division |
June 2012 |
Appointed Director |
June 2013 |
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Printer Operations Division |
June 2015 |
Appointed Managing Director |
April 2016 |
Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, Corporate Planning Division |
June 2016 |
Appointed Director, Managing Executive Officer |
April 2017 |
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Operations Division (current position) |
June 2017 |
Appointed Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer |
October 2018 |
Appointed Representative Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer (current position) |

- Name
- Tatsuaki Seki
- Current position
- Director, Managing Executive Officer
Work history | |
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April 1983 |
Joined Epson Corporation (now Seiko Epson Corporation) |
November 2005 |
Appointed General Manager, BS Business Management Support Department |
October 2014 |
Appointed General Manager, Financial & General Accounting Department |
October 2015 |
Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, Management Control Division |
June 2016 |
Appointed Director, Executive Officer Appointed Chief Financial Officer (current position) Appointed Chief Compliance Officer (current position) Appointed Chief Corporate Communications Officer (current position) Appointed General Administrative Manager, Management Control Division (current position) |
June 2019 |
Appointed Director, Managing Executive Officer (current position) |

- Name
- Masayuki Kawana
- Current position
- Director, Executive Officer
Work history | |
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April 1988 |
Joined Seiko Epson Cooperative Union |
March 1999 |
Joined Seiko Epson Corporation |
October 2008 |
Appointed General Manager, Human Resources Department |
June 2014 |
Appointed Director Appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (current position) Appointed General Administrative Manager, Human Resources Division (current position) |
June 2015 |
Appointed President, Orient Watch Co., Ltd. |
June 2016 |
Appointed Director, Executive Officer (current position) |
October 2016 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, CSR Management Office |
June 2018 |
Appointed Chairman, Epson Sales Japan Corporation(current position) |
April 2020 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Health Management Office (current position) |

- Name
- Toshiya Takahata
- Current position
- Director, Executive Officer
Work history | |
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April 1986 |
Joined Seiko Epson Corporation |
April 2012 |
Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Printer Operations Division |
April 2014 |
Appointed General Manager, BIJ Planning & Design Project |
June 2014 |
Appointed Executive Officer |
April 2015 |
Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, Intellectual Property Division |
June 2015 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Intellectual Property Division |
October 2018 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Corporate Planning Division |
April 2019 |
Appointed Chief Information Security Officer (current position) Appointed Chief Privacy Officer (current position) Appointed General Administrative Manager, DX Division (current position) |
June 2019 |
Appointed Director, Executive Officer (current position) |
April 2020 |
Appointed General Administrative Manager, Corporate Strategy Division (current position) Appointed General Administrative Manager, Sustainability Promotion Office (current position) |

- Name
- Hideaki Omiya
- Current position
- Outside Director
Work history | |
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April 2007 |
Appointed Director and Senior Executive Vice President, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. |
April 2008 |
Appointed President, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. |
April 2013 |
Appointed Chairman, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. |
June 2014 |
Appointed Outside Director, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |
June 2016 |
Appointed Outside Director, Mitsubishi Corporation |
June 2018 |
Appointed Outside Director, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (current position) |
April 2019 |
Appointed Director, Senior Executive Adviser, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. |
June 2019 |
Appointed Senior Executive Adviser, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (current position) |

- Name
- Mari Matsunaga
- Current position
- Outside Director
Work history | |
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April 1977 |
Joined Japan Recruit Center Co., Ltd. (now Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.) |
July 1986 |
Appointed Editor in chief of Shushoku Journal, Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. |
July 1988 |
Appointed Editor in chief of Travaille, Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. |
July 1997 |
Joined NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (now NTT DoCoMo, Inc.) Appointed Head of Planning Office for Gateway Business Dept. |
April 2000 |
Appointed Representative, Mari Matsunaga Office |
June 2012 |
Appointed Outside Director, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. (current position) Appointed Independent Director, Terumo Corporation |
June 2014 |
Appointed External Director, ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (current position) |
June 2016 |
Appointed Outside Director, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |

- Name
- Taro Shigemoto
- Current position
- Director,
Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history | |
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April 1985 |
Joined Suwa Seikosha Co., Ltd. (now Seiko Epson Corporation) |
February 2014 |
Appointed Chairman and President, Epson Engineering (Shenzhen) Ltd., |
June 2016 |
Appointed Special Audit & Supervisory Officer, General Administrative Manager, Audit & Supervisory Committee Office |
June 2018 |
Appointed Director, Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (current position) |

- Name
- Michihiro Nara
- Current position
- Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history | |
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April 1974 |
Registered as an attorney-at-law |
April 2006 |
Appointed Vice President, Japan Federation of Bar Associations Appointed Chairman, Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association |
March 2011 |
Member of Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice |
June 2013 |
Appointed Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Seiko Epson Corporation |
June 2014 |
Appointed Outside Director of the Board, Oji Holdings Corporation (current position) |
June 2015 |
Appointed Independent Auditor, CHORI CO., LTD. Appointed Outside Director, NIHON TOKUSHU TORYO CO., LTD. (current position) |
June 2016 |
Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, CHORI CO., LTD. |

- Name
- Chikami Tsubaki
- Current position
- Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history | |
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April 1970 |
Joined EBARA-Infilco Co., Ltd. (now EBARA CORPORATION) |
May 1975 |
Joined Asahi & Co. (now KPMG AZSA LLC) |
March 1979 |
Registered as Certified Public Accountant |
July 1999 |
Appointed Managing Director, Asahi & Co. (now KPMG AZSA LLC) |
July 2004 |
Appointed Chief Executive, The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants |
June 2013 |
Appointed Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, NKSJ Holdings, Inc. (now Sompo Holdings, Inc.) |
June 2014 |
Appointed Statutory Auditor, HEIWA REAL ESTATE CO., LTD. (current position) |
June 2016 |
Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |

- Name
- Yoshio Shirai
- Current position
- Outside Director,
Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Work history | |
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June 2001 |
Appointed Member of the Board of Directors, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION |
June 2003 |
Appointed Managing Officer, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION |
June 2005 |
Appointed Senior Executive Member of the Board of Directors, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION |
June 2007 |
Appointed Executive Vice President, Member of the Board, Hino Motors, Ltd. |
June 2008 |
Appointed President, Member of the Board, Hino Motors, Ltd. |
June 2013 |
Appointed Councilor, Hino Motors, Ltd. Appointed Vice Chairman, Toyota Tsusho Corporation |
June 2015 |
Appointed Advisor, Toyota Tsusho Corporation |
June 2016 |
Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Seiko Epson Corporation (current position) |
June 2017 |
Appointed Advisor, Hino Motors, Ltd. Appointed Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, Fujikura Ltd.(current position) |