Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Company, Limited. [4008.T]
TOKYO, May 12 (Pulse News Wire) – Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Company,limited. (4008.T) announced today that its board of directors has made several decisions ahead of the upcoming annual shareholders' meeting scheduled for June 29.
The meeting will consider the reappointment of five existing non-audit committee directors—Kazumasa Orihata, Kenichiro Machida, Takeshi Higa, Akira Nakamura, and Kensei Takekoshi—and the appointment of Yoshiyuki Tanaka as a new director. Additionally, two new audit committee members, Kazushi Yamoto and Akiko Yoshimoto, will be proposed for election. Yamoto will replace retiring auditor Sei Yamaguchi, who is stepping down due to personal reasons effective upon the conclusion of the annual meeting. The revised composition of the board as of June 29 includes Kazumasa Orihata as president and CEO, along with directors Takeshi Higa, Akira Nakamura, Kensei Takekoshi, independent director Yoshiyuki Tanaka, and external auditors Kazushi Yamoto, Keiko Miyamoto, Megumi Kawashima, and Akiko Yoshimoto. He later held the position of chairman of the board from October 2020 until August 2021, when he took up his current role as special advisor and consultant at DSS Sustainable Solutions Japan.
Yamoto, born in 1958, began his career at Sumitomo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (now Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.) in April 1989. He was appointed head of the pharmaceutical chemicals division planning department in April 2013 and served as chairman and general manager of Sumitomo Chemical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. from April 2021. Since June 2025, he has been serving as the secretary-general of the company’s audit committee.
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