Leadership

Members of the Board of Directors and Executive Officers of Mizuho Financial Group.

Board of Directors

Title/Name	Status of Major Concurrent Office
Member of the Board of Directors Masahiro Kihara^* Business Experience	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.
Member of the Board of Directors Makoto Umemiya^* Business Experience	Deputy President & Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Deputy President & Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.
Member of the Board of Directors Motonori Wakabayashi^* Business Experience	Deputy President (Representative Director) of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.
Member of the Board of Directors Nobuhiro Kaminoyama^* Business Experience	Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Managing Executive Officer of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.
Chairman (Kaicho), Member of the Board of Directors Seiji Imai Business Experience	–
Member of the Board of Directors Hisaaki Hirama Business Experience	–
Member of the Board of Directors Tatsuo Kainaka Business Experience	Attorney–at–law at Takusyou Sogo Law Office Corporate Auditor (External) of Oriental Land Co., Ltd.
Member of the Board of Directors Yoshimitsu Kobayashi Business Experience	Chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated
Member of the Board of Directors Ryoji Sato Business Experience	Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Nippon Life Insurance Company
Member of the Board of Directors Takashi Tsukioka Business Experience	Honorary Advisor of Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.
Member of the Board of Directors Masami Yamamoto Business Experience	Director, Senior Advisor of Fujitsu Limited Outside Director of JFE Holdings, Inc.
Member of the Board of Directors Izumi Kobayashi Business Experience	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. Member of the Board of Directors of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Member of the Board of Directors of Mizuho Securities Co., 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)	–
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)