Independent Director
Izumi Kobayashi
Career summary
- Apr. 1981
- Joined Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Ltd.*1
- Jun. 1985
- Joined Merrill Lynch Futures Japan Inc.
- Dec. 2001
- President and Representative Director, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd.*2
(until November 2008) - Nov. 2008
- Executive Vice President, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency,
The World Bank Group (until July 2013) - Jul. 2013
- Outside Director, ANA HOLDINGS INC. (until June 2025)
- Jun. 2014
- Outside Director, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (until June 2023)
- Jun. 2017
- Outside Director, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (until June 2025)
- Jun. 2020
- Outside Director, OMRON Corporation (to present)
- Jun. 2025
- Director of the Company (to present)
Member of the Compensation Committee (to present) - Apr. 2026
- Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member),
ARCHION Corporation (to present)
*1 Currently, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
*2 Currently, BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd.