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Executive Team

Hiroyuki Sugimoto

Chief Executive Officer

Shin Azuma

Chief Financial Officer

Yoshiyuki Yuto

Chief Operating Officer

Takeshi Fuchiwaki

Chief Growth Officer

Board of Directors

Hiroyuki Sugimoto | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Co-President and Director

Hiroyuki Sugimoto was elected to the Board of Directors in 2017. Among the directors, he has overseen the entire company as Chairman, but with the increase in the number of group subsidiaries, he has been serving as Chairman Group Executive Officer CEO since 2022 in order to oversee the entire group. Prior to that, he joined TFD, Inc, a real estate company, in 1997 as a top salesman, founded S-GRANT.CO., LTD. in 2001, went public in 2005, and served as president until March 2009. He also serves as a director of group companies SYLA Co., Ltd. and SYLA SOLAR Co., Ltd. and SYLA BIOTECH Co., Ltd.

Yoshiyuki Yuto | Chief Operating Officer (COO), Co-President and Director

Yoshiyuki Yuto founded SYLA Technologies Co., Ltd. in 2010. With an increasing number of group subsidiaries, he has served as Representative Director, Group Executive Officer and COO since 2022. Prior to that, he worked for NISSHIN FUDOSAN Co., Ltd. a real estate company in 2001, and joined S-GRANT.CO., LTD. He has been in charge of purchasing real estate. He also serves as CEO of the group company SYLA Co., Ltd.

Takeshi Fuchiwaki | Chief Growth Officer (CGO) and Director

After joining PricewaterhouseCoopers K.K. in 2009, Mr. Fuchiwaki joined GE Healthcare Japan Corporation in 2010. During his career at GE Healthcare, he also worked for GE Healthcare Singapore Pte Ltd. He then became Executive Officer and CGO of SYLA Technologies Group, as well as Representative Director of SYLA Solar Co., Ltd. in 2022 (to present).

Tomoyoshi Uranishi | Independent Director

B.A. in Economics, The University of Tokyo
1974 - Ministry of Finance
1997- Minister at the British Embassy in Japan
2000 - Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA), Counselor (Equivalent to Deputy Director-General, in charge of Supervisory Bureau)
2001 - Director General of Yokohama Customs
2002 - Deputy Director General, Customs and Tariff Bureau
2003 - Executive Officer, Director and Managing Executive Officer, Tokyo Stock Exchange
2013 - Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer, BICCAMERA INC.
2019 - Advisor
2020 - Outside Director (to present)

Ferdinand Groenewald | Independent Director

University of South Africa (UNISA), B.A.
2016 - FINANCIAL CONSULTING STRATEGIES, LLC,
2018 - PHAROS ADVISORS, Vice President, Finance
2019 - MUSCLE MAKER GRILL, CFO
2022 - Outside Director(to present)

Keiji Torii | Independent Director

Mr. Torii joined The Dai-Ichi Bank, Ltd. in 1971 and was appointed Managing Director of Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd. in 2000. He became Executive Vice President of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. in 2004, and Executive Vice President of Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc. in 2005. In 2009, he served as External Corporate Auditor of ITOCHU Corporation. He joined SYLA Co., Ltd. as Advisor in 2015. He has served as an auditor of SYLA and an outside corporate auditor of SYLA Technologies Co., Ltd.

Yozo Tachibana | Independent Director

Mr. Tachibana joined SALOMON BROTHERS SECURITIES INC. in 1994. After working at Goldman Sachs, he joined Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd. in 2010, where he became Managing Executive Officer in 2011. In 2012, he became President and Representative Director of Rakuten Baseball, Inc., and in the following year in 2013, the team won its first league championship and Japan No.1 title. In 2015, he became Vice Chairman and Representative Director of Crimson Football Club Inc. (Currently Rakuten Vissel Kobe Inc.), where he was appointed as President and Representative Director in 2017. He contributed to the acquisition of Andres Iniesta, who had led the world-famous club Barcelona (Spain) as captain, and led the team to be the first J-League team to surpass 10 billion yen in operating revenue in fiscal 2019. He has been in his current position since 2022. He completed the formation of “the PROSPER Japan Corporate Growth Support Fund No. 1 Investment Limited Partnership” on May 10, 2023, and began its operation.

Stuart Gibson | Independent Director

Mr. Gibson oversees the overall operations and business development of ESR, LTD. He has over 24 years of real estate development and investment experience in Asia, including 15 years in the Japanese industrial real estate sector. He came to Japan in 2000 as representative of Prologis Japan, and then became Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AMB BlackPine Ltd. (predecessor of AMB Property Corporation Japan), and served as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of AMB Property Corporation Japan (currently Nippon Prologis REIT, Inc.). He founded Redwood Group Japan Ltd. in 2006, and has been in his current position since 2016. He is a native of Scotland.

Shin Azuma | Chief Financial Officer

B.A. in Economics Kokugakuin University
2005 - Daitokyo Shinyokumiai
2022 - Senior Manager, Finance Unit, SYLA Co.
2024 - Executive Officer, Senior Manager, Finance Unit of the Company
2024 - Group Executive Officer, CFO, Head of Administration Division (to present)

Ikuo Yoshida | Corporate Auditor (Full-Time)

M.S., Tokyo Institute of Technology
1983 - Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha(now Toshiba Corporation)
2008 - Management Transformation Expert, Toshiba Solutions Corporation
2012 - General Manager, Corporate Audit Office
2014 - Standing Corporate Auditor, Toshiba Solutions Sales Corporation
2017 - Standing Corporate Auditor, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
2021 - Standing Corporate Auditor of the Company and SYLA Co.
2022 - Outside Corporate Auditor (full-time) of the Company(to present), Corporate Auditor of SYLA Co.,Ltd. (full-time) and SYLA Solar Inc.(to present)

Yoshihide Sugimoto | Corporate Auditor

B.A. in Law, Waseda University
2011 - Legal Partners Law Office was established(currently Anshin Partners Law Office)
2015 - Outside Director, Brangista Inc.
2018 - Outside Director, NATTY SWANKY holdings Co., Ltd. (to present)
2020 - Outside Director, Avex Inc. (to present)
2021 - Outside Corporate Auditor, Ai Robotics Inc.(to present)
2022 - Outside Corporate Auditor of the Company and SYLA Co. and GROWTH POWER Inc.(to present)

Keiko Yokoyama | Corporate Auditor

Graduated from Tokyo Woman's Christian University
1994 - Joined Kosaka Co.
2003 - Joined Cosmos & Co. audit corporation
2004 - Joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)
2005 - Registered as Certified Public Accountant
2016 - Auditor, ENECHANGE Ltd. (to present)
2020 - Representative of Keiko Yokoyama Certified Public Accountant Office (to present)
2020 - Full-time Auditor of FUBIC Corporation (currently nobitel inc.) (to present)
2021 - Outside Director (Member of the Audit Committee) of Karadanote Inc.
2023 - Outside Corporate Auditor (to present)

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