Executive Team

  • Ryoichi Nagata

    Ryoichi Nagata

    • Representative Chairman, President & CEO
    • CEO/CHO (Chief Health Officer)
    • Head of TR Business / Head of Fisheries Business
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  • Ichiro Nagata

    Ichiro Nagata

    • Vice President and COO
    • Head of CRO Business and Investment Business
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Ryoichi Nagata

Representative Chairman, President & CEO
CEO/CHO (Chief Health Officer)
Head of TR Business / Head of Fisheries Business

  • September 1981: Director (Part-time), SNBL
  • April 1983: Director, same as above
  • March 1990: Executive Vice President and Representative Director, same as above
  • January 1991: President and Representative Director, same as above
  • September 1997: President and CEO, same as above
  • March 2006: Chairman, Medipolis Medical Research Foundation (now Medipolis Medical Research Institute) (current position)
  • April 2010: Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Bhutan (current)
  • October 2010: Chairman, Veritas Academy Educational Foundation (current position)
  • June 2014: Chairman and President & CEO, SNBL (current)
  • August 2020: Same as above, Representative Director and Chairman, President & CEO, and CHO (Chief Health Officer) (current)
  • June 2023: Same as above, in charge of the Marine Products Business (current position)
  • June 2024: Same as above, in charge of Group Finance
  • June 2025: Same as above, Appointed Head of TR Business

Ichiro Nagata

Vice President and COO
Head of CRO Business and Investment Business

  • April 2015: Joined Juntendo University Hospital
  • April 2017 Joined SNBL Co., Ltd.
  • June 2018: Executive Officer, same as above
  • June 2020: Director and Head of the President's Office, same as above
  • April 2021: Managing Director and Head of the President's Office, same as above
  • June 2023: President and Representative Director, SNBL PPD (current)
    Executive Vice President and Director, SNBL / Head of CRO Business / Head of Hospitality Business
  • June 2025: Executive Vice President and COO, same as above / Head of CRO Business / Head of Hospitality Business / General Manager of GSC
  • July 2025: Same as above, Representative Director and Executive Vice President, COO, Head of CRO Business and Investment Business
  • Ken Takanashi

    Ken Takanashi

    • Vice Chairman
    • Head of SGG Business and U.S. Real Estate Business
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  • Hideshi Tsusaki

    Hideshi Tsusaki

    • Executive Managing Director
    • Head of Technical Information, Overseas Sales, and NHP ARC
    • Head of Global Business Development
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Ken Takanashi

Vice Chairman
Head of SGG Business and U.S. Real Estate Business

  • April 1987: Joined Mitsubishi Corporation
  • December 1996: Joined SUASA KRISTAL (M) BERHAD
  • November 1998: Executive Vice President and Director, same company
  • December 2002 Joined SNBL Co., Ltd.
  • June 2004: Senior Managing Director, same as above
  • June 2016 Audit & Supervisory Board Member of SNBL PPD Co., Ltd. (current position)
  • Vice President of SNBL Co., Ltd.
  • June 2017: Representative Executive Vice President and COO, same as above
  • June 2022: Representative Executive Vice President, Head of Group Corporate Collaboration and Global Business, same as above
  • June 2023: Representative Executive Vice President, Group CFO and Head of Global Business, same as above
  • June 2024: Executive Vice President and Representative Director, same as above / Head of Global Business
  • June 2025: Vice Chairman of the Board, same as above / Head of SGG Business (current)
  • July 2025: Same as above, Appointed Head of U.S. Real Estate Business

Hideshi Tsusaki

Executive Managing Director
Head of Technical Information, Overseas Sales, and NHP ARC
Head of Global Business Development

  • Apr. 1996 Joined SNBL Co., Ltd.
  • June 2010: Director, same as above
  • October 2010: Director, SNBL U.S.A., Ltd.
  • June 2011: Executive Officer, SNBL
  • June 2014: Director, same as above
  • July 2015: President, SNBL U.S.A., Ltd.
  • February 2016: CEO and President, same as above
  • June 2016 Managing Executive Officer of SNBL Co., Ltd.
  • June 2018: Executive Managing Officer, same as above
  • June 2021: Executive Managing Director, same as above
  • June 2023: Executive Managing Director, same as above; Head of Nonclinical Company Global BD
  • October 2024: Executive Managing Director and General Manager of European and American Sales, same as above (current position)
  • July 2025: Same as above, Appointed Head of Technical Information, Overseas Sales, and NHP ARC
  • Takashi Iriyama

    Takashi Iriyama

    • Managing Director and CFO
    • Head of Group Finance and Deputy Head of NHP ARC
    • Head of Corporate Strategy Division
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  • Kyomi Nagatoshi

    Kyomi Nagatoshi

    • Managing Director and CHRO
    • Head of Medipolis Business and General Affairs & Human Resources
    • General Affairs and Human Resources Division
    • Expense Controller
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Takashi Iriyama

Managing Director and CFO
Head of Group Finance and Deputy Head of NHP ARC
Head of Corporate Strategy Division

  • April 1991: Joined Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
  • September 1996: President, Mycom North America, Inc. (Maekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd. North America Branch)
  • September 2002: Manager, Strategy Consulting Group, PwC Consulting LLC
  • June 2008: FP&A Director, Nippon Otis Elevator Company
  • August 2014: Division Director, MISUMI Corporation
  • January 2018: Country Manager, Eurofins Japan
  • November 2019: Joined SNBL as Executive Officer in charge of Corporate Strategy
  • January 2020: Senior Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Strategy Division, same as above
  • June 2024: Executive Managing Officer, Head of Finance & Management Accounting, Head of Corporate Strategy Division, same as above
  • June 2025: Senior Managing Director and CFO, Head of Group Finance, Head of Corporate Strategy Division, same as above (current)
  • July 2025: Same as above, Appointed Deputy Head of NHP ARC

Kyomi Nagatoshi

Managing Director and CHRO
Head of Medipolis Business and General Affairs & Human Resources
General Affairs and Human Resources Division
Expense Controller

  • March 1984: Joined Kyushu Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd.
  • December 1998: Joined IBM Japan West Japan Solution Co., Ltd.
  • February 2002: Joined SNBL
  • February 2008: Group Leader, IT Solutions Group, BIT Promotion Department, Administration Division, same as above
  • June 2017: Executive Officer, General Manager of General Affairs and Human Resources Division, same as above
  • February 2018: Member, Kagoshima Prefecture Gender Equality Council (current)
  • May 2019: Advisor, Women's Working Group, Kagoshima Prefecture Women's Empowerment Promotion Council (current)
  • June 2019: Senior Executive Officer, Head of General Affairs and Human Resources Division, SNBL
  • June 2022: Managing Executive Officer, Head of General Affairs and Human Resources Division, same as above
  • May 2023: Women's Empowerment Advisor, Kagoshima City (current)
  • June 2024: Executive Managing Officer, Head of General Affairs and Human Resources Division, SNBL
  • June 2025: Same as above, Senior Managing Director, General Manager of General Affairs & Human Resources Division, Expense Controller
  • July 2025: Same as above, Senior Managing Director, CHRO, Head of Medipolis Business, Head of General Affairs & Human Resources, General Manager of General Affairs & Human Resources Division, and Expense Controller (current)
  • Shinichi Fukumoto

    Shinichi Fukumoto

    • Independent Director
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  • Takashi Yamashita

    Takashi Yamashita

    • Independent Director
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Shinichi Fukumoto

Independent Director

  • April 1987: Entered the Judicial Research and Training Institute
  • April 1989: Registered as an attorney
  • May 1997: Established Fukumoto Law Office, Director
  • December 2014: Outside Director, Koatsu Kogyo Co., Ltd. (current)
  • June 2015: Outside Director, SNBL (current position)
  • March 2016: Outside Director, Softmax Co., Ltd. (current position)
  • June 2017: Outside Director, Shiroyama Kanko Co., Ltd. (current position)
  • April 2019 Representative Partner, Fukumoto Law Office (current)

Takashi Yamashita

Independent Director

  • October 1983 Joined Asahi Accounting Firm
  • March 1987 Registered as Certified Public Accountant
  • May 2003: Managing Partner, Asahi Audit Corporation (now KPMG AZSA LLC)
  • August 2014: Established Yamashita Takashi Certified Public Accountant Office, Director (current)
  • January 2015 Registered as Certified Tax Accountant
  • June 2015: Outside Director, SNBL (current position)
  • June 2017: Outside Auditor, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd.
  • Tsuyoshi Hanada

    Tsuyoshi Hanada

    • Independent Director
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  • Keiko Toya

    Keiko Toya

    • Independent Director
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Tsuyoshi Hanada

Independent Director

  • September 1984 Joined Ryoichi Hanada Certified Tax Accountant Office
  • February 1990 Registered as Certified Tax Accountant
  • January 2000: Director, Hanada Tax Accountant Office / President, Profit Co., Ltd.
  • February 2005 Director, Tashiro & Hanada Certified Tax Accountant Corporation
  • July 2017: Representative Partner, Reimei Tax Corporation (current); Representative Director, Reimei Co., Ltd. (current)
  • July 2019 President, Kagoshima Prefecture Federation, Minami Kyushu Certified Tax Accountants Association
  • June 2020 Outside Director, SNBL (current)
  • July 2023 Vice President, Minami Kyushu Certified Tax Accountants Association (current)

Keiko Toya

Independent Director

  • April 1988 Joined Saitama Bank, Ltd. (now Resona Bank, Ltd.)
  • October 1996: Joined NCR Japan, Ltd.
  • July 1999: Representative Director, Marketing Excellence Co., Ltd.
  • April 2002: Associate Professor (Special Appointment), Graduate School of Business Design, Rikkyo University
  • June 2004 Ph.D. in Business Administration (University of Tsukuba)
  • April 2006: Full-time Lecturer, Faculty of Business Administration, Toyo University
  • July 2006 Managing Director, Marketing Excellence Co., Ltd. (current)
  • April 2007 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Doshisha University Professional Graduate School
  • April 2014 Professor, Graduate School of Global Business, Meiji University Professional Graduate School (current)
  • April 2019 Outside Director, Yuasa Trading Co., Ltd.
  • June 2021 Outside Director, SNBL (current)
  • September 2021 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), QB Net Holdings Co., Ltd. (current)
    Visiting Researcher, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics (current)
  • April 2024 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Higo Bank, Ltd. (current)
  • Chizuru Matsueda

    Chizuru Matsueda

    • Independent Director
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  • Yumi Hirose

    Yumi Hirose

    • Independent Director
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Chizuru Matsueda

Independent Director

  • October 1996 Joined Aoyama Audit Corporation
  • May 1999 Registered as Certified Public Accountant
  • December 2006: Established Matsueda Certified Public Accountant Office, Director
  • May 2016: Registered as a Certified Fraud Examiner
  • September 2020 External Auditor, Kagoshima University (current)
  • June 2024 Outside Director, SNBL (current)

Yumi Hirose

Independent Director

  • April 1979: Joined Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau
  • July 2012: Inspector, National Tax Agency Commissioner’s Secretariat
  • July 2015: Director, Yukigaya Tax Office
  • July 2016: Manager, Personnel Section 2, General Affairs Department, Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau
  • July 2017: Manager, General Affairs Section, National Tax College
  • July 2018: Manager, Investigation Coordination Section, Investigation Division III, Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau
  • July 2019: Deputy Director, Investigation Division II, Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau
  • July 2020: Director, Shiba Tax Office
  • August 2021: Registered as Certified Tax Accountant; Established Yumi Hirose Tax Accountant Office, Director (current)
  • June 2022: Outside Director, Capcom Co., Ltd. (current); Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Torex Semiconductor Ltd. (current)
  • June 2025: Outside Director, SNBL (current)

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

  • Masakazu Suda

    Masakazu Suda

    • Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member
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  • Koshin Tatarano

    Koshin Tatarano

    • Audit & Supervisory Board Member
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Masakazu Suda

Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member

  • Aug. 1990 Joined SNBL Co., Ltd.
  • April 2007 General Manager, Research Department 1, SNBL Safety Research Institute
  • July 2019 General Manager, Internal Audit Department, same as above
  • June 2020 Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, same as above (current)

Koshin Tatarano

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

  • April 1992 Entered Legal Training and Research Institute
  • April 1994 Registered as Attorney
  • October 2003 Established Izuro Law Office
  • April 2004 Vice President, Kagoshima Bar Association
  • April 2016 President, Kagoshima Bar Association
    Director of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations
    Executive Director, Kyushu Federation of Bar Associations
    Family Court Mediation Committee Member / Summary Court Civil Mediation Committee Member (current)
  • June 2019 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, SNBL (current)
  • Yoshikazu Shigehisa

    Yoshikazu Shigehisa

    • Audit & Supervisory Board Member
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Yoshikazu Shigehisa

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

  • November 1981 Joined Asahi Accounting Firm (now KPMG AZSA LLC)
  • March 1985 Registered as Certified Public Accountant
  • July 1986 Joined Shigehisa Certified Public Accountant Office
  • September 1986 Registered as Certified Tax Accountant
  • March 2000 Director, Shigehisa Certified Public Accountant Office (current)
  • April 2001 Civil Mediation Committee Member, Kagoshima District Court and Summary Court
  • June 2019 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, SNBL (current)
  • Since April 2023, serving as Family Court Conciliation Commissioner and Summary Court Civil Conciliation Commissioner (currently in office).

Executive Officer

Senior Executive Officer
Financial Controller
Toshihiko Makino
Senior Executive Officer
Director of the Safety Research Institute and General Manager of Domestic and Asia Sales Division
Hirofumi Minage
Senior Executive Officer and CIO
IT Headquarters
Yukihiro Kiya
Executive Officer
Satsuma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. COO
Shunji Haruta
Executive Officer
Asia Sales Manager, Domestic and Asia Sales Division, and Head of Asia Business Promotion Department
Zheng Guodong
Executive Officer
Head of Quality Assurance Division
Takatoshi Nakamura
Executive Officer
Head of Power Generation Division and Director of the President's Office
Tomoki Umehara
Executive Officer
Hospitality Business Manager
Kiyokazu Yunomae
Executive Officer
Director of CTP, Safety Research Institute
Akihito Shimoi
Executive Officer
Head of Finance and Accounting Division, Corporate Strategy Division
Naohiro Tsubaru
Executive Officer
Director, NHP Center
Yoshiharu Sunaga
Executive Officer
Gemseki Division Manager
General Manager, SGG, Global Business Promotion Division
Yoshiharu Asanuma
Executive Officer
General Manager, Corporate Management Division, Corporate Strategy Division
Kazuya Hoshino
Executive Officer
Deputy General Manager of General Affairs and Human Resources Division
Director, Human Resources Department, General Affairs and Human Resources Headquarters
Yoko Nishikiba
Executive Officer
Head of Corporate Planning Division, Corporate Strategy Division
Koji Nakajima