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Interviews with the Chairman of the Board and an Outside Director
Masatoshi Matsuzaki
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Masatoshi Matsuzaki served as a Director at Konica Minolta
Business Technologies, Inc., the Representative Director and
President of Konica Minolta Technology Center, Inc., and in
various other roles before becoming a director, and then the
President and CEO of Konica Minolta, Inc. In April 2014, he
assumed the position of Chairman of the Board.
Shoji Kondo
Outside Director
Shoji Kondo has served as a Senior Executive Director at Toyota
Motor Corporation, Representative Director and President, and
Chairman at Hino Motors, Ltd., and in various other roles. He has
been an outside director of Konica Minolta, Inc. since June 2011.
Ensuring sustainability through a corporate culture
with integrity, transparency and fairness
Early Promotion of a Governance System Based on
Democratic, Open Ideas
-------------- Please share your thoughts on Konica Minolta’s
corporate governance.
Matsuzaki Konica Minolta is a “company with three
committees” as stipulated by the Companies Act. The three
committees within the Board of Directors include the
Nominating Committee, Audit Committee, and Compensation
Committee, in which the majority of members are outside
directors. These committees carry out various tasks such as
nominating director candidates, auditing the duties of
representative executive officer(s) and directors, and
determining compensation, thereby ensuring management
transparency and fair business practices.
Kondo Konica Minolta stipulates that the Chairman of the
Board is selected from among directors not currently serving
as an executive officer, one-third or more of the directors are to
be outside directors, and that directors who do not
concurrently serve as executive officers constitute the majority
of the total number of directors.
Matsuzaki In reality, presently four of the eleven directors are
outside directors and seven directors do not concurrently serve
as executive officers. I am one of the seven and also chair the
Board.
Kondo Konica Minolta has an extremely advanced
governance system, one that many listed companies are
currently aiming to achieve. This is due to the proactive efforts
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