Career summary, positions and areas of responsibility in the company:
Sep. 1970 Joined the company
Apr. 2000 General Manager, Vending Machine & Amusement Systems Business Div.
Jun. 2001 Director
Jun. 2004 Managing Director
Jun. 2006 Director & Managing Executive Officer
Jun. 2008 General Manager, Management Planning Office
Apr. 2009 General Manager, Corporate Strategy Div.
Jun. 2010 Director & Executive Vice President
Apr. 2011 President & Representative Director (to present)
Education
March 1970 Graduate from Faculty of Commerce, Kwansei Gakuin University
Experience
May 2012 - May 2014 Chairman at the Japan Vending Machine Manufacturers Association, a general incorporated association
Areas of Expertise
I have been involved with a variety of business fields including purchasing, sales, corporate planning.
What have been the main lessons you have learned in your career and how do you implement them in your management?
It has been my policy to transfer my authority to my subordinates as much as possible, and have them challenge various things making them not too fearful of making failures. Ultimately, however, I make it a rule to take every responsibility for all what my subordinates have done.
Mentors
I understand each of my senior staff I have encountered since I joined GLORY have made me grown in various aspects in the business. I think I was lucky.
Quotes
“Do not keep away from your regular business, but do not just continue your regular business”. This is a quote by Noboru Makino, former chairman of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., which means you have to improve and renovate the contents of your regular business. I would like to exploit new market by bringing our currency handling technologies into new realms.
