Representative Director, Chairman of
the Board

Masatoshi Ito

Representative Director, President & Chief Executive Officer

Takaaki Nishii

Representative Director, Member of the Board & Corporate Executive Deputy President

Tamotsu Iwamoto (Internal Auditing; Secretarial Office; General Affairs & Risk Management; Legal; Public Communications; Global Communication; Global Human Resources Management; Human Resources)

Members of the Board & Corporate Senior Vice Presidents

Koji Igarashi (Management of Technology & Production; Information System Planning)

Etsuhiro Takato (General Manager, Food Products Division; Logistics Planning; Advertising)

Hiroshi Fukushi (General Manager, AminoScience Division)

Members of the Board & Corporate Vice Presidents

Hiromichi Ono (Finance & Accounting; Group Procurement Center)

Takeshi Kimura (Management of R&D; Intellectual Property; Institute for Innovation; Quality Assurance & External Scientific Affairs)

Masaya Tochio (Corporate Planning; CSR)

Makoto Murabayashi (Business Strategy and Development)

Outside Director

Sakie T. Fukushima (Outside Director)

Yasuo Saito (Outside Director)

Takashi Nawa (Outside Director)

Standing Corporate Auditors

Yoichiro Togashi
Shizuo Tanaka

Outside Auditors

Masami Hashimoto (Certified Public Accountant) 
Atsushi Toki (Attorney-at-law) 
Hiroshi Murakami

Corporate Vice President

Toshihisa Kato (General Manager, Institute for Innovation)
Kazuya Onomichi (General Manager, R&D Planning Dept.)
Shunichi Komatsu (General Manager, Europe & Africa Division)
Chiaki Nosaka (General Manager, Institute of Food Sciences and Technologies)
Haruo Kurata (General Manager, North America Division)
Hiroyuki Kojima (General Manager, Research Institute for Bioscience Products & Fine Chemicals)
Hideki Takeuchi (Deputy General Manager, Food Products Division)
Kaoru Kurashima (General Manager, Asean Division)

Corporate Executive Officers

Alain Vrillon (President, AJINOMOTO FOODS EUROPE S.A.S.)
Masaya Sugimori (General Manager, China Division)
Yoshimasa Yoshimiya (General Manager, Human Resources Dept.)
Eiji Majima (Deputy President, AJINOMOTO EUROPE S.A.S.)
Hiroshi Motoyama (General Manager, Food Ingredients Dept.)
Masahiro Tani (General Manager, Food Production & Technology Administration Center)
Taro Fujie (General Manager, Latin America Division)
Daniel Bercovici (President, AJINOMOTO EUROLYSINE S.A.S.)
George Gwinnett Bompas (General Manager, Pharmaceutical Custom Manufacturing Dept.)
Masayoshi Kurosaki (Deputy General Manager, Food Products Division)
Jiro Sakamoto (General Manager, Technology Development Center, Institute of Food Sciences and Technologies)
Chika Morishima (General Manager, Consumer Foods & Seasonings Dept.)
Koji Tamura (General Manager, Production & Technology Administration Center)
Takayuki Koda (General Manager, Production Management Dept.)
Narutoshi Fukase (General Manager, Tokyo Branch)