Norinao Shirai: Exercising Overseas Experiences To Establish The Name Of Japanese Merchants Globally

Norinao Shirai, Executive Director, Daiwa Pharmaceutical CO
Norinao Shirai: Exercising Overseas Experiences To Establish The Name Of Japanese Merchants Globally

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Top 10 Executive Directors In Japan - 2023

The True Leaders of Japan’s Economy

Apart from being known for a safe, convenient and clean country, Japan has emerged as a leading nation in today’s world with a strong economy, highly sophisticated infrastructure and a reliable tax regime, which offers a great business environment for businesses wishing to expand to Asia. With its major industries including automobiles, computers and consumer electronics, there is ample opportunity for players in an array of industries, to enter the Japanese market. Undoubtedly pandemic shook the foundation of many industries and hit the economy hard of many countries, both developed and developing, and Japan was not an exception. Thanks to the dynamic entrepreneurial spirit, agile Industry leaders (CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, Executive Directors and more), and highly skilled human workforce of the country, who have constantly leveraged their out of the box thinking and future-ready attitude to support the economic growth.

Executive Directors Fostering Success

As leadership expert WCH Prentice said, "Leadership is the accomplishment of a goal through the direction of human assistants". Leadership is not only about having ever-increasing followers but a much broader concept than this. While leadership is often associated with job titles, it's not so much about their role but their attitude and behaviour. Such great corporate leader are Executive Directors, they are the senior operating officer or manager of an organization or corporation, mostly at a nonprofit. Similar in many ways to the CEO in a profitable corporation, executive directors are responsible for steering the organization and managing its operations thoroughly. With less salary than any other corporate CEO, they work hard for organisations with fundraising efforts, as well as the promotion of the organization in order to raise public awareness and boost membership.

CEO Insights Asia in this issue presents a list of ‘Top 10 Executive Directors in Japan - 2023' who have leveraged their extensive industry expertise and experience in offering effective skills to the market. The following list has been prepared after being closely scrutinized by a distinguished panel of judges including CXOs, analysts and our editorial board. We recognize their valuable contribution to the ever expanding and competitive market and their ability to sustain themselves and emerge as top contestants through their reliable knowledge.

Top 10 Executive Directors In Japan - 2023

Company Management	Company Name	Company Description
Denise Smith , Executive Director- Japan Finance	Bristol Myers Squibb	A global, enterprise minded leader delivering strategic insights that inform decisions for the future with a proven track record and experience in finance and business management, financial reporting and analysis, internal controls, business partnering, and public accounting
Haruki Sawada , Executive Director	Green Sports Alliance Japan	A visionary business leader, taking forward Japan’s sports industry in terms of its sustainable practices and using sports to drive communities toward a sustainable futureks
kenji ikeda Executive Director, Executive Director	Inoue Corporation	An executive leader with a with a proven track record of driving success, skilled in business development, operations management, strategic planning and many
Masatoshi Asami , Executive Director	Eucrasia K.K.	A business leader with 20 years of experience working as IT and business strategy consultant for financial firms & streetside institutions
Niaz W. , Executive Director	Mayra Business Services	A visionary with in-depth knowledge of technology, IT staffing & recruitment and the food & beverages industry and known for starting up & scaling businesses through vision, intuition, and technology, & user-experience expertise
Norinao Shirai , Executive Director	Daiwa Pharmaceutical Co	A seasoned professional with over 40 years of experience in the international marketing industry with a proven track record of building trust with customers and driving success in the competitive world of international marketing
Sergio Nespral Sánchez , Executive Director	Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Japan	A business & international trade specialist with over 5 years of experience in foreign business promotion in a multilateral diplomatic environment in Japan
Takashi Wada , Executive Director	New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization	An global professional leader with 14+ years of extensive experience in research and development of solving technology for social challenge issues
Takuya Yamashita , Executive Director-Director Sales Division	AT Tokyo Corporation	An extensive international business career spanning industries from life science, information technology, sales and expertised in operations management, business development and more
Yuki Yanase , Executive Director	Tomoe System Inc	An executive director developing and implementing strategies aiming to promote the mission and creating complete business plans for the attainment of goals and objectives

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