June 26, 2026 – Japan InvestmentCorporation today announced the board directors appointed at its 17th AnnualGeneral Meeting of Shareholders held on June 26. The board directors decidedresponsibility of each director and the investment committee members at a boardmeeting held afterwards the same day. Appointees are shown below.
＜ExecutiveDirectors＞
＜External directors＞
Note: Member of the board Keisuke Yokoo and ShinnosukeKameyama resigned at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting ofShareholders on the expiration of term of office.
New President, ChiefExecutive Officer career summary: Jiro Seguchi
1986 Bankof Tokyo
1999 MerrillLynch Japan Securities
2010 MerrillLynch Japan Securities, CEO
2013 Bankof America, Head of Asia Pacific Global Corporate and Investment Banking
2019 Bank of America, Co-President of AsiaPacific
New Director and ChiefStrategy Officer career summary: Kazuaki Osumi
2002 JoinedMinistry of Economy Trade andIndustry
2019 Director General for Representative Officein Silicon Valley,
New Energy and Industrial Technology DevelopmentOrganization (NEDO)
2022 Director, Research andDevelopment Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and EnvironmentBureau, METI
2024 Director,Research and Development Division, Innovation and Environment Policy Bureau, METI
About Japan Investment Corporation (JIC)
Japan InvestmentCorporation (“JIC”) was established in September 2018 under the IndustrialCompetitiveness Enhancement Act. JIC’s investment focus areas are creating avirtuous cycle of domestic investment and innovation; creating and fosteringstartups; leveraging promising untapped management resources lying dormant inlocal areas, including startups from academia and medium-sized companies; andpromoting business restructuring in response to changes in market and businessenvironments. JIC provides risk capital to these areas through fundsindependently established by JIC and LP investment in private funds to promoteopen innovation in Japan, strengthen the competitiveness of Japanese industries,and contribute to expansion of Japan’s investment ecosystem.
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