Corporate Executives

Director

Akira Kurokawa

Director of the Board, Chairman

  • Corporate Management
  • Life science business
  • Understanding medical field and patients

Takeshi Ito

Representative Director of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer

  • Corporate Management
  • Life science business
  • Understanding medical field and patients

Kanoko Oishi

Director of the Board *

  • Corporate management
  • Understanding medical field and patients
  • ESG and service to society

Yutaro Shintaku

Director of the Board *

  • Corporate management
  • Life science business
  • Global leadership

Kunihito Minakawa

Director of the Board *

  • Global leadership
  • Finance and accounting
  • Legal affairs and risk control

Noboru Kotani

Director of the Board *

  • Corporate management
  • Life science business

Tamie Minami

Director of the Board *

  • Life science business
  • Global leadership
 
  • Outside Directors are independent officers as designed by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Corporate Auditor

Hiroshi Isaka

Standing Corporate Auditor

  • Life science business
  • Understanding medical field and patients

Masahiko Ikaga

Outside Auditor *

  • Corporate management
  • Finance and accounting
  • Legal affairs and risk control

Junichi Asatani

Outside Auditor *

  • Life science business
  • Finance and accounting
  • Legal affairs and risk control

Yaeko Hodaka

Outside Auditor *

  • Global leadership
  • Legal affairs and risk control
  • ESG and service to society
  • Outside Auditor are independent officers as designed by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Among skills respectively held, two or at most three skills, which are specifically advantageous or those with strong relevance to the businesses of Santen, are described.

  • Corporate management
  • Life science business
  • Understanding medical field and patients
  • Global leadership
  • Finance and accounting
  • Legal affairs and risk control
  • ESG and service to society

Corporate Officers

Chief Operating Officer
Head of China Business
Rie Nakajima*
Head of Japan BusinessIppei Kurihara*
Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) BusinessMarianthi Psaha
Head of Japan Sales and Marketing Division, Head of Sales Department, Head of Marketing DepartmentShinichi Teramachi
Head of Asia BusinessTomoyuki Yoshida
Head of Sales and Marketing Division – OTC productsYoshinori Watanabe
Head of Ophthalmology Innovation CenterReza Haque*
Chief Medical OfficerPeter Sallstig*
Chief of Staff to CEOFumiyasu Ako*
Global Head of Business DevelopmentKen Araki*
Head of Supply Chain DivisionFrank Binder
Chief Product Supply OfficerMark Dawson*
Chief Communications OfficerNobuko Kato
Chief Financial OfficerKazuo Koshiji*
General Counsel & Chief Compliance OfficerMika Masunari*
Global Head of Core Principle & SustainabilityTakahiro Morita
Global Head of Corporate StrategyYoko Saiki*

* Corporate Management Member (CMM)