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Shunichi Miyanaga

Position

President & CEO

Company Name

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Bio

Shunichi Miyanaga is the President and CEO of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), where he leads one of the largest manufacturing and engineering companies in the world, with over 80,000 employees worldwide, consolidated sales of more than $30 billion, and products ranging from power systems and chemical plants to aircraft, ships and industrial machinery.

Mr Miyanaga was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, in the western part of Japan, in 1948. He holds a degree from the Faculty of Law department of the University of Tokyo and an MBA degree from the graduate business program at the University of Chicago (now known as the Booth School of Business). His hobbies are playing tennis and golf, and before coming to the office every morning, he indulges himself with unsolved problems of number theory, etc. Mr Miyanaga and his wife have two daughters.

Information

Experience

Mr Miyanaga began his career with MHI in 1972 at the Hiroshima Machinery Works immediately following graduation from the University of Tokyo. During over 40 years with the company, he has held numerous management roles throughout MHI and has spent his career promoting global marketing, engineering and manufacturing efficiencies, and customer-focused service strategies.

Notably, between 2000 and 2006, Mr Miyanaga served as President and CEO of Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. (MHMM), which was the first major joint venture entity formed by MHI and Hitachi Ltd. As President of MHMM, he successfully integrated the capabilities of two prominent organizations, fully realizing the synergies and advantages of the joint venture. MHMM has recently formed a larger UK joint venture (Primetals Technologies Ltd.) with Siemens AG, which aims to be the industrial leader of the metals machinery business.

His management roles have also included appointment as General Manager of the Heavy Machinery Department, Machinery Headquarters, in 1999 and as Executive Vice President, Head of Machinery & Steel Structures Headquarters, in 2008.

He has been a member of the MHI Board of Directors since 2008, and in 2011 Mr Miyanaga was appointed as Senior Executive Vice President and Head of the Presidential Administration Office. During this time as the senior executive officer assisting the president, he led management reforms and spearheaded the business integration of MHI’s Power Systems Division with the power systems business of Hitachi Ltd.

Mr Miyanaga was named the President and CEO of MHI on April 1, 2013, and has been serving as a non-executive board member of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation since June 2014.

As of June 2, 2015, Mr Miyanaga also assumed the vice chairmanship of the Japan Business Federation (“Keidanren”).