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Directors

Position Name Career
President and Representative Director Masahiro Ikeura Please click here for a brief biography
Director and Advisor Shigetoshi Aota Please click here for a brief biography
Director Tadashi Uehara Please click here for a brief biography
Outside Director Mayumi Hirase Please click here for a brief biography
Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member 		Hidemi Ota Please click here for a brief biography
Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member 		Masato Tsujikawa Please click here for a brief biography
Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member 		Masato Higuchi Please click here for a brief biography

Skills Matrix of Directors

The skills possessed by each director are marked with a ● where applicable.

Name Position Suitability Corporate
Management		 Sustaina-
bility		 Governance Universal Finance /
Accounting		 Legal Affairs Risk Management Human Resources /
Labor		 Sales /
Marketing		 Engineering /
Safety
Masahiro Ikeura President and Representative Director For more information, click here
Shigetoshi Aota Director and Advisor For more information, click here
Tadashi Uehara Director For more information, click here
Mayumi Hirase Director (Outside) For more information, click here
Hidemi Ota Director (Outside)
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
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Masato Tsujikawa Director (Outside)
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
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Masato Higuchi Director (Outside)
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
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Note: The ○ marks in this matrix represent the skills particularly expected of each Director and do not represent all the skills possessed by each Director.

The Company has adopted an Operating Officer system. The expertise and experience of Operating Officers who do not concurrently serve as Directors are as follows:

Name Position Corporate
Management 		Sustainability Governance Universal Finance /
Accounting 		Legal Affairs Risk Management Human Resources /
Labor 		Sales /
Marketing 		Engineering /
Safety
Takashi Hirashima Senior Operating Officer
Hiroshi Kawamoto Senior Operating Officer
Akinobu Endoh Senior Operating Officer
Yutaka Setoi Operating Officer
Terutaka Hiraoka Operating Officer

Skills of Directors required by the Company

Our Group’s management philosophy is to contribute to the enrichment of our nation and the creation of a brighter society through the construction, maintenance, and repair of societal infrastructure such as bridges, buildings, and coastal structures. In our age of rapidly advancing globalization, Directors who take on the difficult task of steering the Company are required to have a variety of skills in order to embody its management philosophy and ensure its sustainable growth.
The Company defines the skills particularly expected of Directors, which are important for enhancing corporate value and promoting sustainable management and diversity, as follows:

Skills Definitions
Corporate Management Capabilities to guide and supervise the Company as a company that “works together” and “grows together” with its stakeholders, with experience in overcoming management crises and ideas that can create the future amid such hardships.
Sustainability Capabilities to guide and supervise the Company’s social contribution activities in cooperation with external expert organizations, with knowledge related to environmental and social initiatives necessary for continuing sustainable growth and development over the medium- to long-term as well as deep insight into “coexistence and co-prosperity with society.”
Governance Capabilities to prevent crises, to enhance employees’ awareness of compliance, and to guide and supervise the Company as a company that makes social contributions, with a high degree of awareness about the important factors in governing a company such as corporate governance, internal controls, compliance, and risk management.
Universal The Company is a group of professionals that engages in social contribution activities through the development of social infrastructure. As a company responsible for protecting the safety and security of people’s lives, we believe it is important to keep a universal perspective in mind at all times. Capabilities to grasp the Company’s corporate activities from a universal perspective and to appropriately guide and supervise these activities by leveraging experience in a different environment through substantial social contribution activities.
Finance / Accounting Capabilities to supervise financial positions and operating results in cooperation with external audit firms, to prevent accounting irregularities, such as window dressing, and to ensure compliance in corporate accounting, with a career background as a leader supervising finance/accounting and tax affairs.
Legal Affairs Capabilities to identify laws and regulations that may have an enormous impact on corporate management and to guide and supervise appropriate measures from a legal perspective, with broad insight into legal affairs in the Company’s management, which requires the prompt development of systems and processes to adapt to changes in the market environment.
Risk Management Capabilities to identify various risks that may have an enormous impact on corporate management and to guide and supervise appropriate measures, with broad insight into risk management in the Company’s current management, in which the market environment is drastically changing.
Human Resources / Labor Capabilities to appropriately guide and supervise the Company’s activities in cooperation with external expert organizations, with a drive for systemic reforms to draw out the abilities of employees and motivate them to contribute to the development of the Company, as well as knowledge related to human resources development and labor, along with a high degree of awareness about compliance with labor regulations.
Sales / Marketing Capabilities to understand the nature of the order-based industry with public works at the core of management, to accurately grasp current challenges and their impact on changes in the market, and to guide and supervise the Company’s business policies and sales policies for developed products.
Engineering / Safety Capabilities to guide and supervise the technological development policies or safety management systems in the Company’s business, with technologies important in the design, manufacturing, and engineering on site of steel structures as well as knowledge related to safety control.

[Suitability as Director]

Mr. Aota has demonstrated leadership as management with his wealth of experience and broad knowledge as a manager at the Group, and he possesses experience and abilities appropriate for the Company’s Representative Director, including familiarity with corporate planning, sales and other departments. In particular, he led the merger of MIYAJI IRON WORKS CO., LTD. and MIYAJI CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING CO., LTD., which marked a major turning point for the Company, and the conversion of MM BRIDGE CO., LTD. (MMB) into a group company with strong conviction, thereby helping the Group recover from weak business performance and achieve growth. Considering these reasons, he is qualified as the Company’s Director.

[Suitability as Director]

Mr. Uehara has a wealth of experience in construction planning/design engineering at the Group. In particular, he played a central role during construction of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, which is a super-large suspension bridge. Furthermore, he demonstrated leadership not only on the construction front but also on the order receipt fronts in the design, construction planning, and sales areas. He led the effort of MEC to receive orders for large-scale renewal works while displaying strong leadership as a manager to contribute to the strong business performance. Based on these and other factors, he is qualified as the Company’s Director since he has the experience and abilities appropriate for serving as the Company’s Director.

[Suitability as Director]

Mr. Ikeura has a wealth of experience in areas such as sales and steel bridge business at the Group. In particular, he is familiar also with the practical aspects such as the operation method in super-large construction works like the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project, and has steadily improved the business performance of MMB. with his insightful leadership, among other achievements. As such, he is qualified as the Company’s Director since he has the experience and abilities appropriate for serving as the Company’s Director.

[Reason for nomination as candidate for Outside Director and overview of expected roles]

Ms. Hirase actively addresses “promotion of women’s advancement” and “promotion of measures to support raising the next generation,” which are our key issues for diversity promotion, even in the male-dominated Board of Directors by utilizing her experience as an athlete who excelled in the tough world of professional sport. She has the strength to drive reforms and improvements from an objective and unique female perspective. Furthermore, since 2016, she has been active as a “Dream Teacher” of the “JFA Kokoro Project” of the Japan Football Association as a social contribution activity. As such, she is qualified as the Company’s Outside Director as a leader of social contribution activities of the Company, which also engages in ESG initiatives, and as a supervisor of management toward sustainable growth based on diversity promotion by utilizing her experience in an environment completely different from our industry.

[Suitability as Outside Director]

Mr. Ota is one of the few persons who have played an important role in all the processes from planning to construction of the Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line Expressway, a national project. Furthermore, he is also an authority on the area of steel structures who pushed forward the national project of constructing the Runway D at Tokyo International Airport, a steel offshore airport, and is familiar with the Company’s business with a high level of insight in this industry. In addition, he also has a wealth of experience as a private company manager and has a wide network of contacts, and is expected to perform company analysis from a broad perspective. As such, he is qualified as the Company’s Outside Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member, who also is a supervisor of the Company’s path to sustainable growth.

[Suitability as Outside Director]

Mr. Tsujikawa has expertise and experience as a lawyer while at the same time having served as a corporate auditor of a listed company and concurrently serving as an outside auditor of a company in another industry, which is listed on the Prime Market. He has multifaceted knowledge that leverages these many experiences. In addition, he possesses management experience as a law firm partner and is familiar with labor issues too, as well as having publications in the areas of the Commercial Code and the new Companies Act and also serving as conciliation commissioner of the court. Given this experience and knowledge, he is qualified as the Company’s Outside Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member, who also is a supervisor of the Company’s operation.

[Suitability as Outside Director]

Mr. Higuchi has a wealth of experience mainly in responding to various social events and issues as Chief of Police of the Kumamoto Prefectural Police, the Fukuoka Prefectural Police, and the Osaka Prefectural Police, and giving direction and guidance for investigations and inspections into these events and issues as well as recurrence prevention measures as the head of governance. Even after retiring from the police, he has been consulted by companies and organizations as a lawyer on compliance matters and has been offering advice. Furthermore, he has served as Outside Director of other companies, and therefore is qualified as the Company’s Outside Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member, who is also is a supervisor of the Company’s governance and compliance.