Board Members

Board Members
Managing Director & CEO | Jin Shiomuraprofile |
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Directors (part-time) | Nobukuni Taneya (Director, Paycloud Holdings Inc.) |
Takahisa Iizuka (Managing Executive OfficerDeputy General Manager of Administration Division and Manager of Corporate Planning Department MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION) |
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Koichi Noda (Executive Officer, General Manager, Financial Management Office, Inabata & Co., Ltd) |
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Toshio Miyata (M.D., Ph.D., President, Mih Clinic) |
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Georg Holländer (Professor of Developmental Medicine, University of Oxford) |
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Takashi Kobayashi (former Representative Director of BioResource Innovation Hub in Kobe) |
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Audit & Supervisory Board Members (part-time) | Tomoyasu Toyoda (Company Auditor, MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION) |
Yasuhiro Kaga (former Member of the Board of Directors/Managing Executive Officer, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd.) |
Executive Officers
Vice President | Shigeki Shimasaki (Head of Research & Development Division) profile |
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Senior Executive Officers | Arata Tabata (Head of BD/Project Planning & Development Division) |
Toshiaki Okamura (Head of Regulatory Affairs Division) |
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Yoshihide Yamamoto (Head of President Office ) |
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Eijiro Akatsu (Head of Administration &Corporate Planning Division) |
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Executive Officers | Kenji Shimizu (Deputy Head of Research & Development Division) |
Yoshiki Yagi (Deputy Head of Research & Development Division) |
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Hitoshi Hasegawa (Head of PMS Regulatory Compliance & Assurance Division/General Marketing Compliance Officer) |
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Masanori Osakabe (Deputy Head of Research & Development Division) |
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Makoto Shiragami (Head of Compliance Division) |
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Tetsuro Noguchi (Head of Supply Chain & Manufacturing Division) |
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Sachiko Ezoe (Head of Medical Division) |
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Hiromi Okatake (Head of Legal/IP Management Department) |
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Yoshinobu Takahashi (Head of Pharma Business Division) |
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Katsu Endo (Head of Medical Device Division) |
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Executive Directors | Masato Iwamoto (General Manager of Supply Chain Management Department) |
Atsunori Iwao (General Manager of Quality Assurance Department/Quality Assurance Manager) |
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Yasuo Suga (Deputy Head of Pharma Business Division) |
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Yasuo Satake (Deputy Head of Pharma Business Division) |
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Yumi Imai (General Manager of PMS Regulatory Compliance Department) |
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Nobuyuki Sato (General Manager of Digital Transformation Department) |
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Yukio Urasaki (Deputy Head of BD/Project Planning & Development Division) |
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Hideki Matsuoka (General Manager of HR & General Affairs Department) |
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Yoshiaki Nomura (Deputy Head of Pharma Business Division) |
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Mikinao Takeuchi (General Manager of Pharmacovigilance Department/Safety Manager) |
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Akihiro Otsuka (General Manager of Intellectual Property Department) |
Manufacturing/Marketing Triumvirate
General Marketing Compliance Officer | Hitoshi Hasegawa |
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Quality Assurance Officer | Atsunori Iwao |
Safety Management Officer | Mikinao Takeuchi |
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Jin Shiomura,
Managing Director & CEO

Jin Shiomura started his career at Mitsubishi Kasei Kogyo (now Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation) in 1977, as graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Hitotsubashi University. In 1981, he was sent abroad to study at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he took Management Accounting and Marketing courses. On his return to Japan, he became the product manager for Theodur, the first pharmaceutical product that Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation launched. He was responsible for the sales agreement and pricing negotiations as well as additional indication and formulation projects. He continued on his career path during which he twice received the President Awards as recognition for his successful marketing of Novastan and Cholebine showing his abilities as a marketing manager for various new drugs.
With his strategies rich in entrepreneurial spirit, he has a proven track record in medical and pharmaceutical fields of operational reforms, research and development, new business establishment, and concurrent position of director at six subsidiaries of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, along with various academic achievements including a number of published articles and as an Advisory Board Member at the 17th World Congress of the International Society for Heart Research (held in 2001 in Winnipeg, Canada). Throughout his career, he has also built his network with medical specialists around the world.
To present, he has been Managing Director and CEO since his establishment of Nobelpharma Co., Ltd. in 2003. In November 2020, he was appointed as the Ambassador to the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, University of Oxford.
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Shigeki Shimasaki,
Vice President & COO (Head of Research & Development)

Shigeki Shimasaki graduated from School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo in 1980. After joining Mitsubishi Kasei Kogyo (now Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation), he engaged primarily in the pharmaceutical development, and worked also in the fields of medical affairs and marketing planning. Notably, he received a President Award as a recognition of his significant contribution to the statistical analysis work as a head of statistical analysis and data management unit. As directed a large domestic clinical trial of 1,500 cases and established company restructure and operational policies for the enforcement of ICH-GCP (Good Clinical Practice) standards among other achievements he made, he has extensive experiences and a proven track record in research and development.
Since getting aboard Nobelpharma in 2007, he held key senior posts such as Head of Research & Development before assuming the current position.