About Management
Directors
- Outside Director (serving on the Audit & Supervisory Committee)
Independent Director - Rika Saeki
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Rika Saeki is an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois, U.S.A., and is registered in Japan with the Daini Tokyo Bar Association as a Foreign Special Member. She has considerable experience at Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell and Morrison & Foerster with mergers and acquisitions and international alliances involving companies in a variety of sectors including food, pharmaceuticals and technology, as well as providing critical advice on corporate governance and other matters. She also possesses management supervisory experience with respect to domestic companies based on her position as an Outside Director serving on the Audit and Supervisory Committee of Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
Based on her extensive experience as a foreign attorney and an Outside Director serving on an Audit and Supervisory Committee, she is expected to provide advice as a Director serving on the Audit and Supervisory Committee on all areas including decision making related to important managerial decisions, handling of expected risks, corporate governance and internal control system, and the Company has appointed Saeki as a Director serving on the Audit and Supervisory Committee (Outside Director).
| September 1993 | Joined Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) |
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| November 1993 | Admitted to the Illinois Bar, U.S.A. |
| May 2000 | Joined Morrison & Foerster LLP |
| January 2008 | Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster LLP (incumbent) |
| December 2013 | Registered as a Foreign Special Member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association |
| June 2016 | Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member), Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. |
| March 2025 | Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member), Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Holdings Inc. |