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Executive

President & CEO

Komei Fukushima

1988
Eisai Co., Ltd.
2006
Eisai Research Institute of Boston, Inc.
2014
Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine
2015
Project Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine
2016
President and Chief Executive Officer (Representative Director), K Pharma, Inc. (present)

Managing Director & CFO

Masato Matsumoto

2001
PwC Consulting (currently IBM Japan, Ltd.)
2005
Mizuho Investors Securities Co., Ltd. (currently Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.)
2012
Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
2013
Cross Company (currently Stripe International Inc.)
2016
Director, Stripe International Inc.
2021
Director and Chief Financial Officer, K Pharma Inc.
2024
Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, K Pharma, Inc. (present)

CSO

Hideyuki Okano

1983
Instructor, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine
1985
Instructor, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University
1989
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1992
Instructor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
1994
Professor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba
1997
Professor, Division of Neuroanatomy, Department of Neuroscience, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
2001
Professor, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine
2007
Dean, Keio University Graduate School of Medicine
2008
Visiting Professor, University of Queensland
2014
Visiting Professor, Hoshi University
2015
Dean, Keio University School of Medicine
2019
Director, K Pharma, Inc. (present)
2021
Visiting Professor, Fujita Health University
2022
Visiting Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (present)
2024
Distinguished Professor and Director, Keio University Regenerative Medicine Research Center (present)
2024
President, International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) (present)

CTO

Masaya Nakamura

1998
Research Fellow, Georgetown University
2000
Instructor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine
2004
Assistant professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine
2007
Lecturer (part-time), Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University
2012
Associate professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine
2015
Professor & Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine (present)
2017
Assistant Dean, Keio University School of Medicine
2019
Executive Director, The Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine (JSRM) (present)
2019
Director, K Pharma, Inc. (present)
2021
Vice Dean, Keio University School of Medicine

Outside Director

Miho Yamada

1989
Mitsubishi Corporation's Osaka Branch
1992
Merrill Lynch Securities Tokyo Branch (currently BofA Securities Co., Ltd.)
2000
Merrill Lynch Japan Securities (currently Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.)
2009
Director, Le Credit Trust Co., Ltd.
2012
Outside Director, CBS Financial Services Co., Ltd.
2014
Representative Director, CBS Financial Services Co., Ltd. (present)
2025
Outside Director, K Pharma, Inc. (present)

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member (full-time)

Shunsuke Toyokawa

1991
Tsumura & Co.
2010
Director, Head of External Affairs Department, Tsumura & Co.
2011
General Manager, Head of External Affairs Department, Tsumura & Co.
2013
General Manager, Head of Audit & Supervisory Board Office, Tsumura & Co.
2017
General Manager, Head of Audit & Supervisory Committee Office, Tsumura & Co.
2017
General Manager, Internal Auditing Department, Tsumura & Co.
2022
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member (full-time), K Pharma, Inc. (present)

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Yasutaka Nishida

2005
Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC
2012
President, Accounting Firm (present)
2019
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, K Pharma, Inc. (present)

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Akiko Isohata

2001
Tokyo Hatchobori Law Office
2011
Partner, Tokyo Hatchobori Law Office (present)
2022
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation
2022
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, K Pharma, Inc. (present)

Director Miho Yamada serves as an Outside Director.
Audit & Supervisory Board Members Shunsuke Toyokawa, Yasutaka Nishida, and Akiko Isohata serve as Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Members.