Management Members

Masatoshi Matsuzaki

Chairman of the Board
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Masatoshi Matsuzaki has been Chairman of the Board of KONICA MINOLTA, INC. since April 2014. He joined Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd. in 1976 and engaged mainly in product development and planning of printers and MFP’s. After the integration of Konica and Minolta in 2003, he held several leadership executive positions responsible for R&D and technology strategy. He served as President and CEO of KONICA MINOLTA INC. from April 2009 to March 2014.
He is also Outside Director of public companies in Japan, such as Ichigo Inc., Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., and LIXIL Group Corporation, and is also Vice Chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Directors.
He has also been invited to give many lectures on corporate management, technology management, leadership, and corporate governance.

Shoei Yamana

President & CEO, Representative Executive Officer,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Shoei Yamana joined Minolta Camera Co., Ltd., which later became Minolta Co., Ltd., in 1977. After working on the development of markets in emerging countries, international sales while staying in the U.K., and company-wide management planning, he served as CEO of an American printer company acquired by Minolta. Upon returning to Japan, he was appointed Executive Officer, Minolta Co., Ltd., and doubled as General Manager, Management Planning Division, and Deputy General Manager, Business Technologies Business Headquarters. He played an important role in the integration of Konica and Minolta.
After the integration, he served as Senior Executive Officer in charge of corporate strategy. He was appointed Director and Senior Executive Officer responsible for business technologies in 2006, Director and Senior Vice president and Executive Officer for the same business in 2013, and President and CEO, Representative Executive Officer in April 2014, a position he has since held.

Demonstrating strong leadership, President Yamana has been striving to transform Konica Minolta into a digital company with insight into implicit challenges, a company that anticipates latent issues of customers and helps solve them together with customers, thus contributing to the business community and society at large. He is a much sought-after speaker for lectures on digital business.

Toyotsugu Itoh

Director, Konica Minolta, Inc.

Toyotsugu Itoh joined Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd., which later became Konica Corporation, in 1979, where he was involved in the development of photographic film production technologies and R&D of key device production technologies.
After the integration of Konica and Minolta in 2003, he was involved in establishing a production subsidiary in China and managing a production subsidiary of the Konica Minolta Group. After taking up various managerial positions, including General Manager of the Monodzukuri Engineering Center (Manufacturing Technology Center), in 2013, he was promoted to Executive Officer and General Manager, Corporate Production Operations, where he was in charge of strengthening production technologies company-wide and promoting production strategies. He was appointed Senior Executive Officer in 2015, and Senior Executive Officer Responsible for Management Quality Improvement in 2017, where he was tasked with carrying out management quality reforms and other measures to improve internal control. In 2018 he became Director of Konica Minolta, Inc. and has since been responsible for supervising corporate management.

He has authored several books, including Cho-seimitsukako no Essence (Essence of Ultra-high-Precision Technologies) and Jissai no Sekkei (Actual Design) (co-author). He is also an active member of an external network of study groups.

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Director, Konica Minolta, Inc.

Hiroyuki Suzuki joined Minolta Camera Co., Ltd., in 1979 which later became Minolta Co., Ltd. After gaining experience in personnel management as well as management of group companies, he was involved in the management of a new business at a subsidiary as a director.
After the integration of Konica and Minolta in 2003, he played a leading role in building an MFP direct-sales system and promoting MFP sales in China. Starting from 2006, he supported auditing activities as the audit committee secretariat. In 2009, he was appointed General Manager, Corporate Audit Division, where he has been responsible for internal auditing for 10 years. In 2012, he became Executive Officer, and in June 2019, took up the post of Director upon resigning as Executive Officer. He has since been in charge of supervising corporate management as an Internal Director, not doubling as Executive Officer.
Especially, as a member of the audit committee he has been responsible for auditing how the internal control system is built and used in the company and how Executive Officers are fulfilling their managerial duties, leveraging the expertise in corporate governance and internal control gained from his experience in management and auditing activities.

Seiji Hatano

Director and Senior Executive Officer Responsible for Business Management, Accounting, Finance and Risk Management,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Seiji Hatano joined The Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd., which later became MUFG Bank, Ltd., in 1982, where he gained experience in general global corporate financing services for major companies, including general trading companies, heavy industry companies, automobile manufacturers, electronics manufacturers, and sea and land transportation companies, while engaging in M&A, project financing, and treasury management.
While working in New York and Singapore, he took charge of transactions with Japanese companies and major local companies and international business management, and, while responsible for examining companies, he was involved in several large-scale corporate restructuring projects.
After joining Konica Minolta in 2011, he took charge of the company’s growth strategy. He was appointed Executive Officer and General Manager, Corporate Strategy Division in 2013, and as Director and Senior Executive Officer responsible for CSR, publicity, and branding, in addition to corporate strategy, in 2014. In 2016, he was also put in charge of risk management as General Manager, Corporate Planning Division. Since 2018, he has been in charge of accounting and financing operations as well.

Leveraging the human network built while engaging in banking services and transactions with major companies, and applying cutting-edge expertise, he is currently in charge of affairs relating to finance, accounting, taxes, and business management to support Konica Minolta in transforming its business model and help the company maintain sustainable growth and enhance its corporate value on a medium- to long-term basis.

Toshimitsu Taiko

Director and Senior Executive Officer,
Lead Officer Responsible for Business Technologies,
Division President of Office Business Headquarters,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Toshimitsu Taiko joined Minolta Camera Co., Ltd., which later became Minolta Co., Ltd., in 1986. After taking charge of legal affairs in Japan and the U.S., and then sales of printers, he took charge of marketing and business planning at a printer sales company.
Since the integration of Konica and Minolta, he has served as an officer responsible for strategic business planning for business technologies, and as CEO of a sales company in the U.S. He was appointed Executive Officer in 2015, and returned to Japan in 2016. After holding managerial positions including General Manager, Business Planning Headquarters, and General Manager, Professional Printing Business Headquarters for Business Technologies, he was also appointed Director in 2018.
Leveraging his 14 years of experience working abroad, mainly in the U.S. and Europe, and the ability to think rationally gained from such experience, he is currently working to increase earnings from the company’s mainstream business operations - office business and production printing business – while introducing digital technologies in his capacity as a lead officer responsible for business technologies. He is also striving to deliver new value to customers in new growth fields, such as industrial printing, marketing services, and the digital workplace, as part of the effort to put into practice the vision of a digital company with insight into implicit challenges.

Masafumi Uchida

Director and Senior Executive Officer Responsible for Technologies,
General Manager, Quality Management Headquarters,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Masafumi Uchida joined Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd., which later became Konica Corporation, in 1983. After engaging in R&D of toner for copiers, he was transferred to the toner manufacturer, Konica Supplies Manufacturing, Co., Ltd., present-day Konica Minolta Supplies Manufacturing Co., Ltd., where he gained practical experience.
After the integration of Konica and Minolta, he served as General Manager, Production Technology Headquarters; Deputy Senior General Manager, Manufacturing Headquarters; General Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility Division. He was appointed Executive Officer and General Manager, Corporate Environmental and Quality Management Division in 2016 and promoted management focusing on SDGs. He became Senior Executive Officer in 2018 and in this capacity, has been responsible for technology since 2019.

As a leader of the Quality Management Headquarters which was ranked first in the 10th Corporate Quality Management Level Research, he is currently working on quality management in anticipation of the demands of the IoT era. As Chief Technical Officer, he is also striving to create digital innovations and to internationalize the company’s R&D activities.
He is the author of a book titled Quality Month Text 422: Quality Management of Konica Minolta (2017).

Kiyotaka Fujii

Senior Vice President and Executive Officer
Division President of Global Healthcare
Chairman & CEO, Konica Minolta Precision Medicine, Inc.

Fujii leads Konica Minolta’s global healthcare business which focuses on Precision Medicine and Medical Diagnostics. After joining Konica Minolta in 2016 Fujii led the acquisitions of two major U.S. biotechnology companies, Ambry Genetics and Invicro, and currently assumes the position of chairman of both companies.

Fujii has a wide-ranging business career from medical services, information technology, consumer products to investment banking. Fujii has held Japan CEO positions with top global companies since 1997, including SAP, Louis Vuitton, Cadence Design Systems and Quintiles Transnational. From 2012 to 2015 he served Olympus as the first independent board member to re-build its governance and businesses.

From 1985 to 1993 Fujii held the role as the first Japanese M&A investment banker in New York with Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman Sachs. Fujii started out his career with McKinsey as the first hire from the University of Tokyo.

Fujii received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1986 and a B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo in 1981.

Tsukasa Wakashima

Senior Executive Officer Responsible for Human Resources and General Affairs,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Tsukasa Wakashima joined Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd., which later became Konica Corporation, in 1981. After engaging in domestic sales, he was transferred to a sales company in the U.K. in 1986. In 1989, he was assigned to the Corporate Human Resources Division at the headquarters of Konica where he was responsible for international personnel affairs, leveraging his experience in working abroad, and went on to manage personnel affairs at the company’s manufacturing and R&D bases, personnel and general affairs at domestic sales companies, and personnel affairs and labor relations at the headquarters. He played a leading role in meeting personnel needs in the process leading to the integration of Konica and Minolta, and after the integration, he served as General Manager, Corporate Human Resources Division for 8 years from 2009 to 2017. He was appointed Executive Officer in 2011, and has been Senior Executive Officer since 2014.

He was quick to recognize the importance of “health and productivity management” and built a collaborative health system in cooperation with the Corporate Human Resources Division and the Health Insurance Association in 2012, which was a very progressive system at that time. Recently, he has been carrying out dynamic personnel strategies, and under his leadership, Konica Minolta was selected as one of the outstanding companies in the electrical equipment sector under the Health & Productivity Stock Selection Program in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019; won the Grand Prize in the Nikkei Smart Work Awards in 2018; acquired the highest-level Eruboshi certification mark in 2016; and obtained the Platinum Kurumin certification in 2017.

He has been frequently asked by external organizations to deliver lectures on human resources policies, such as personnel systems, corporate pension plans, health and productivity management, work-style reforms, global initiatives to produce innovative human resources, and lifting of the regulation prohibiting side jobs.

腰塚　國博
Kunihiro Koshizuka

コニカミノルタ株式会社　取締役 兼 常務執行役 技術担当

1981年小西六写真工業株式会社（のちのコニカ株式会社）に入社。写真用ネガフィルム感材/ペーパー感材の開発に従事した後、自動車運転免許証システム、印刷用デジタルプルーフシステム、印刷用製版プレートシステム、医療用ドライフィルム感材システム、医療用デジタルX線システムなどの多くの開発リーダーを歴任。
コニカとミノルタの経営統合後は、医療・印刷事業の開発センター長を経て、2012年執行役 技術戦略部長に就任。2014年には常務執行役 開発統括本部長に就任し、MOT(技術経営)を推進する。2015年からは取締役 兼 常務執行役 事業開発本部長として、産業用光学システム事業、バイオ診断システム事業、新デジタル印刷システム事業などの新規事業開発を行い、これら新規事業に関連する海外企業の大型買収を複数手掛け、現在も全社技術担当(CTO)としてイノベーション創出に意欲的に取り組む。

社外では、先端素材高速開発技術研究組合(ADMAT)の理事長や、日本オプトメカトロニクス協会の副会長を務めるなど、技術開発での産官学活動の推進に尽力する。 イノベーション創出、デジタルトランスフォーメーションなどに関する外部講演多数。

Noriyasu Kuzuhara

Senior Executive Officer,
Division President of Material & Component Business Headquarters, General Manager of Corporate R&D Headquarters,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Noriyasu Kuzuhara joined Konica Corporation in 1990, where he was involved in new business development projects, such as the development of cancer diagnostic agents utilizing immune response and electrolyzed water sanitizing systems. He then engaged in the development of LCD films, another new business. In 2003, he succeeded in developing the world’s first TAC retardation film for VA-LCDs (VA-TAC), which greatly helped the company expand in this field, and in recognition of this achievement, he was awarded the Excellence Prize in the 3rd Monozukuri Nippon Grand Award in 2009.
He was appointed General Manager, R&D Department, Performance Materials Headquarters, in 2009, General Manager, Performance Materials Business Unit, Advanced Layers Company in 2014, Executive Officer in 2015, and Senior Executive Officer in 2016.
Since 2017, he has served as Division President, Material & Component Business Headquarters and since 2018, doubled as General Manager, Corporate R&D Headquarters.

Yuji Ichimura

Senior Executive Officer,
Division President, Industrial Optical System Business HQ,
Officer Responsible for Business Innovation Center and External affairs,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Yuji Ichimura joined Konica Minolta in 2012 and was driving M&A, transformation for IT service business and new business development of the company. And working for developing next generation business of the company as Senior Executive Officer, Division President of Industrial Optical System Business HQ. He had experienced with Sales, Planning, new Business Development and Start-up investment at the Japanese global IT and Network company before joining Konica Minolta.
He has been invited many external events as speaker of “Innovation management at the Enterprise Company”.

Main External Memberships
Steering Committee member, DBIC (Digital Business Innovation Center)
Council member, ISO/TC279 (Innovation Management)
Council member, Marketing, Japan Management Association (JMA)
Director, Next Generation Contents Distribution Forum

Ikuo Nakagawa

Senior Executive Officer Responsible for Digital Workplace Business, DX Branding and IT,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Ikuo Nakagawa joined Minolta Camera Co., Ltd., which later became Minolta Co., Ltd., in 1982. He has much experience in global business, staying in Hong Kong and China for 7.5 years, in the U.S. for 15 years and in Europe for 4 years.
In 2001, he took up the post of vice president of a North American headquarter in the U.S. and in 2003, played a leading role in the integration of the sales companies of Konica and Minolta in the U.S. After the integration, he served as Chairman and CEO of a listed company in the U.S. acquired by Konica Minolta and as president of a sales company in China, and in 2014, he was appointed Executive Officer of Konica Minolta and president of an European headquarter in Germany. During these years, he demonstrated strong leadership skills in executing M&A to enhance IT services, and post-merger integration of business and IT, as well as sales, marketing, and corporate planning in the areas for which he was responsible. In 2018, he returned to Japan as Senior Executive Officer.

Leveraging his experience in global business, he is currently responsible for digital workplace business, a new business for Konica Minolta, while providing supervision and management over the global IT organization across the Konica Minolta Group and promotion of Digital Transformation (DX) branding on a global basis.
He is frequently asked to give lectures on global IT & digital transformation and digital workplace business by external organizations.

Kazuyoshi Hata

Senior Executive Officer,
General Manager, Corporate Planning Division,
Officer Responsible for Investor Relations, Corporate Communications,
One KM Business Promotion,
Kansai Regional Director,
Konica Minolta, Inc.

Kazuyoshi Hata joined Minolta Camera Co., Ltd., which later became Minolta Co., Ltd., in 1981. After being involved in designing optical lenses for industrial use and developing optical software, he moved to a Management planning division where he was in charge of establishing a joint venture for sales of copiers to fully prepare for expansion into the Chinese market, and a joint venture for developing color printers in Japan. In 2003, he played a leading role in the integration of Konica and Minolta as General Manager, Management Planning Division.
After the integration, he worked for the Corporate Strategy Division and, after serving as Manager, Business Planning Department, Camera Division, he was appointed Executive Officer and General Manager, Corporate Strategy Division in 2009. In 2014, he became President of Healthcare Company and played a leading role in promoting the healthcare business, following which he took charge of the alliance and optical component business. Since 2018, he has served as Senior Executive Officer and General Manager, Corporate Planning Division, and also as Kansai Regional Director.

He is experienced in formulating company-wide strategies and working in a wide range of fields, such as optical products, copiers, printers, cameras and healthcare, and through such experience, he has developed an understanding of the perspectives of both top management and frontline workers, which has helped him formulate and carry out highly practical strategies.