Directors, Auditors and Executive Officers

Board of Directors

President and Representative Director Yoichi Wada  
Executive Vice President and Representative Director Keiji Honda  
Senior Executive Managing Director and Representative Director Yosuke Matsuda  
Director Yukinobu Chida  
  Makoto Naruke   (*1)

Corporate Auditors

Standing Auditor Ryoichi Kobayashi   (*2)
Auditor Norikazu Yahagi  (*2)
  Ryuji Matsuda (*2)
  Nobuhiro Saito  

Honorary Chairman

Yasuhiro Fukushima  

*1 External Director specified in Article 2, Item 15 of the Companies Act
*2 External Auditors specified in Article 2, Item 16 of the Companies Act

Board of Directors

President and Representative Director
Yoichi Wada
Date of Birth: May 28, 1959

Apr. 2000 Joined SQUARE CO., LTD. (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Jun. 2000 Director and CFO
Sep. 2001 Representative Director and COO
Dec. 2001 President and CEO
Apr. 2003 President and Representative Director, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent)
Jul. 2006 President and Representative Director, TAITO CORPORATION (incumbent)
Oct. 2008 President and Representative Director, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

Others

  • Chairman, COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLIER'S ASSOCIATION(CESA)(May 2006-May 2012)

Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Keiji Honda
Date of Birth: December 29, 1957

Oct. 1987 Joined ENIX CORPORATION (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Jul. 1990 Resident officer of ENIX America Corporation
Jun.1998 Director and General Manager, Software Development Division, Product Planning
Oct. 2000 President and COO
Apr. 2003 Vice President and Representative Director, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Jun. 2004 Executive Vice President and Director, residing in China
Jan. 2005 Chairman, SQUARE ENIX (China) CO., LTD. (incumbent)
Oct. 2006 Executive Vice President and Representative Director , SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent)
Oct. 2008 Executive Vice President and Representative Director, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

Senior Executive Managing Director and Representative Director
Yosuke Matsuda
Date of Birth: April 27, 1963

Oct. 2001 Senior Vice President, SQUARE CO., LTD. (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Apr. 2003 Senior Vice President and General Manager, Accounting and Financial Division, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Jun. 2004 Director and CFO (incumbent)
Feb. 2006 Director, TAITO CORPORATION (incumbent)
Oct. 2008 Director and CFO, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)
Mar. 2013 Representative Director, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

Director
Yukinobu Chida
Date of Birth: September 29, 1950

Aug. 1982 Director, ENIX CORPORATION (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Mar. 1988 Director, Enix Products
Apr. 1989 Managing Director and General Manager, Product Development Division, ENIX CORPORATION
Jul. 1992 Executive Director, Software Development Division, Publication Division, Toy Development Division, and Publication Sales Division
Oct. 2000 Vice Chairman and Director
Oct. 2002 Director
Apr. 2003 Director , SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent)
Oct. 2008 Director, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

Director(*1)
Makoto Naruke
Date of Birth: September 4, 1955

Sep. 1982 Joined ASCII Corporation
Oct. 1982 Temporarily transferred to ASCII Microsoft Co., Ltd.
Jun. 1986 Joined Microsoft Co., Ltd.
Sep. 1990 Director, Marketing Division
Nov. 1991 President and Representative Director
May 2000 Director and Senior Advisor.
President and CEO, Inspire Corporation
Jun. 2000 Director, SQUARE CO., LTD. (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Apr. 2003 Director, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Aug. 2008 Member of the Board Founder, Inspire Corporation (incumbent)
Oct. 2008 Director, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

*1 External Director specified in Article 2, Item 15 of the Companies Act

Corporate Auditors

Standing Auditor(*2)
Ryoichi Kobayashi
Date of Birth: October 25, 1946

Apr. 1971 Joined Nomura Computing Center Co., Ltd. (NCC) (currently, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.)
Oct. 1986 President, NCC America
Jun. 1994 Director, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
Jul. 1996 Managing Director, NRI Data Services, Ltd.
Jun. 1999 Executive Director
Jun. 2002 Auditor, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
Jun. 2007 Auditor, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent)
Jun. 2008 Outside Director, Matsumotokiyoshi Holdings Co., Ltd. (incumbent)
Oct. 2008 Standing auditor, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

Auditor(*2)
Norikazu Yahagi
Date of Birth: December 2, 1942

Apr. 1966 Joined IBM Japan, Ltd.
Mar. 1999 Standing Auditor
Mar. 2001 Auditor, Nihon Office Systems Ltd.
Oct. 2001 Standing Director, Japan Corporate Auditors Association
Jun. 2002 Auditor, SQUARE CO., LTD. (currently, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Apr. 2003 Auditor, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Oct. 2003 Chairman and Director, Pan Research & Institute Corp. (incumbent)
Jun. 2004 Auditor, T.D.I.CO.,LTD. (incumbent)
Apr. 2006 Professor, Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business (incumbent)
Jul. 2008 Auditor, Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd. (incumbent)
Oct. 2008 Auditor, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

Auditor(*2)
Ryuji Matsuda
Date of Birth: April 30, 1955

Apr. 1986 Registered as Attorney and CPA
Joined Kawai, Takeuchi, Nishimura and Inoue Law Office
Jan. 1988 Joined Miyake, Hatazawa and Yamazaki Law Offices
Jul. 1992 Opened Matsuda Law Office (up to the present)
Jun. 2007 Auditor, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Jun. 2008 Auditor, SEIKA CORPORATION (incumbent)
Oct. 2008 Auditor, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)
*1 External Director specified in Article 2, Item 15 of the Companies Act

Auditor
Nobuhiro Saito
Date of Birth: August 9, 1943

Apr. 1966 Joined Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Ltd. (currently Shinsei Bank, Limited.)
May 1991 General Manager, Sales Division 5
Apr. 1993 Managing Director, Subsidiary (securities company) of same bank
Apr. 1996 Executive Director
Jun. 1997 Representative Managing Director, Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd.
Dec. 2000 Corporate Auditor, Japan Beverage Inc.
Apr. 2003 Affiliate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Senshu University (incumbent)
Jun. 2006 Corporate Auditor, Asset Securities Co., Ltd.
Jun. 2007 Auditor, TAITO CORPORATION (incumbent)
Jun. 2007 Corporate Advisor, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Oct. 2008 Auditor, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent)
Jun. 2009 Auditor, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

*2 External Auditors specified in Article 2, Item 16 of the Companies Act

Honorary Chairman

Yasuhiro Fukushima
Date of Birth: August 18, 1947

Sep. 1975 Founded Eidansha Boshu Service Center, President and Representative Director
Aug .1982 President and Representative Director, ENIX CORPORATION
Apr. 1989 ENIX CORPORATION, KONIKA ENIX, and Enix Products merged into Eidansha Boshu Service Center, renamed ENIX CORPORATION (currently, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.), President and Representative Director
Oct. 2000 Chairman, CEO and Representative Director
Apr. 2003 Chairman and Representative Director, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
Jun.2004 Honorary Chairman
Oct. 2008 Honorary Chairman, SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (incumbent)

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