Leadership
Members of the Board of Directors and Executive Officers of Mizuho Financial Group.
Board of Directors
Title/Name | Status of Major Concurrent Office |
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Member of the Board of Directors of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Member of the Board of Directors of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Member of the Board of Directors of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. |
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Deputy President & Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Deputy President & Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
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Deputy President (Representative Director) of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
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Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
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Attorney–at–law at Takusyou Sogo Law Office Corporate Auditor (External) of Oriental Land Co., Ltd. |
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Chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated |
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Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Nippon Life Insurance Company |
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Honorary Advisor of Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. |
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Director, Senior Advisor of Fujitsu Limited Outside Director of JFE Holdings, Inc. |
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Outside Director of ANA HOLDINGS INC. Outside Director of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Outside Director of OMRON Corporation |
(As of June 30, 2022)
Notes:
- * indicates directors concurrently serving as executive officers as defined in the Companies Act.
- Messrs. Tatsuo Kainaka, Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, Ryoji Sato, Takashi Tsukioka, Masami Yamamoto and Ms. Izumi Kobayashi satisfying the requirements for outside directors, as defined in the Companies Act of Japan, and those for independent directors, as difined both by the Tokyo Stock Exchange and by Mizuho Financial Group.
- The designation of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the designation of committee members and the Chairman of each committee are as follows:
Chairman of the Board of Directors: Izumi Kobayashi
Nominating Committee members:
Tatsuo Kainaka (Chairman), Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, Takashi Tsukioka, Masami Yamamoto and Izumi Kobayashi
Compensation Committee members:
Masami Yamamoto (Chairman), Tatsuo Kainaka and Takashi Tsukioka
Audit Committee members:
Takashi Tsukioka (Chairman), Tatsuo Kainaka, Ryoji Sato and Hisaaki Hirama
Risk Committee members:
Hisaaki Hirama (Chairman), Izumi Kobayashi, Rintaro Tamaki(Outside Expert) and Hiroshi Naka(Outside Expert)
Executive Officers
Executive Officers as Defined in the Companies Act
Title | Name | Areas of Oversight | Major Concurrent Office |
President & Group CEO (Representative Executive Officer) |
Masahiro Kihara | Group CEO |
Member of the Board of Directors of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. |
Deputy President & Senior Executive Officer (Representative Executive Officer) | Makoto Umemiya | Group Chief Digital Innovation Officer(Group CDIO) / Head of Financial Control & Accounting Group(Group CFO) |
Deputy President & Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Deputy President & Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Masahiro Otsuka | Head of Retail & Business Banking Company | – |
Senior Executive Officer | Naofumi Fuke | Co–Head of Retail & Business Banking Company | – |
Senior Executive Officer | Hidekatsu Take | Head of Corporate & Institutional Company / Head of Global Corporate Company | – |
Senior Executive Officer | Yasuhiro Shibata | Co–Head of Global Markets Company | Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Kenya Koshimizu | Co–Head of Global Markets Company | Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Masamichi Ishikawa | Head of Asset Management Company / Deputy Head of Strategic Planning Group | Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Mitsuhiro Morishita | Head of Global Products Unit | – |
Senior Executive Officer | Yasuhiko Ushikubo | Head of Research & Consulting Unit | Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Member of the Board of Directors, Deputy President of Directors of Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd |
Senior Executive Officer | Naoshi Inomata | Head of Strategic Planning Group(Group CSO) | Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Motonori Wakabayashi | Head of Risk Management Group(Group CRO) | Deputy President (Representative Director) of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Nobuhiro Kaminoyama | Head of Human Resources Group (Group CHRO) | Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Koji Yonei | Head of IT & Systems Group (Group CIO) |
Deputy President & Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Member of the Board of Directors of Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd |
Senior Executive Officer | Mitsuhiro Kanazawa | Co-Head of IT & Systems Group (Group Co–CIO) |
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Senior Executive Officer | Hiroaki Ehara | Head of Operations Group (Group COO) | Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Deputy President (Representative Director) of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Makoto Matsubara | Head of Compliance Group (Group CCO) | Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. |
Senior Executive Officer | Hisashi Kikuchi | Head of Internal Audit Group (Group CA) | Member of the Board of Directors (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Member of the Board of Directors (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Member of the Board of Directors (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd |
(As of June 30, 2022)