Board Member Profile

Board Members

Takuya YOKOKAWA
President &CEO, Executive Officer
Date of birth: Oct. 13, 1960

Career
Apr. 1985 Joined Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (currently FUJIFILM Corp.(FUJIFILM))
Oct. 1996 Manager, Ashigara Research Laboratories, FUJIFILM
Apr. 2004 Senior manager, Research and Development Management HQ, Digital & Photo Imaging Material Research Laboratories, FUJIFILM
Jun. 2007 Deputy General Manager, life science Research Laboratories, Research and Development Management HQ / Senior Manager, Business Development Office Life Science Business Division, FUJIFILM
Jul. 2008 Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd. (currently FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd.) on loan
Jun. 2009 General Manager, Drug Discovery Research Laboratories, Research and Development Management HQ, FUJIFILM
Sep. 2013 General Manager, Regenerative Medicine Business Development Office/Deputy General Manager, Pharmaceutical Products. Div., FUJIFILM
Apr. 2015 Manager, Regenerative Medicine Business Development Office, FUJIFILM / Forum for Innovative Regenerative Medicine, on loan
Dec. 2017 Manager, Healthcare Business Development Office, FUJIFILM
Mar. 2018 Director, Perseus Proteomics Inc. (the Company)
Jun. 2018 President & CEO, the Company (to present)
Jan. 2019 Executive Officer, the Company (to present)

Shinichi SUZUKAWA
Director, Executive Officer, Head of Administrative Dept.,
Date of birth: Sep. 20, 1955

Career
Apr. 1978 Joined Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co. Ltd. (currently KDDI CORPORATION)
Jul. 1996 Vice President, KDD Europe (currently KDDI Europe)
Feb. 2002 President, Telehouse Europe
Apr. 2005 Network Solution KANSAI Regional Office, KDDI CORPORATION (KDDI)
Apr. 2008 Regional Executive Officer, Asia Pacific/President, KDDI Singapore
Jan. 2010 Vice Chairman, DMX Technologies Group LTD
Jan. 2013 Executive Director, Global ICT Business Division, Global Business Sector, KDDI
Jun. 2016 Statutory Auditor, KDDI Evolva, Inc. (currently Altius Link, Inc.)
Sep. 2018 Outside Director, ACSL Ltd.
Jun. 2019 Statutory Auditor, the Company
Jun. 2020 Director, Executive Officer & Head of Administrative Dept.,the Company (to present)

Shinji HAGIWARA
Director, Executive Officer, Head of R&D Dept., Head of Business Development Dept.
Date of birth: Mar. 23, 1965

Career
Apr. 1989 Sandoz Yakuhin K.K.
May 2001 Team Leader, Biosciences Department, GlaxoSmithKline K.K.
Feb. 2007 Research Manager, life science Research Laboratories, Research & Development Management HQ, FUJIFILM Corporation
Oct. 2013 Senior Manager, Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Research Laboratories, Research & Development Management HQ, FUJIFILM Corporation
Nov. 2021 Head of Business Development Dept. (to present) & Deputy Head of Research and Development Dept., the Company
Jun. 2022 Executive Officer & Head of Research and Developmenet Dept., the Company (to present)
Jun. 2023 Director, the Company (to present)

Kinichiro KOMINAMI
Outside Director
Date of birth: Jan. 20, 1967

Career
Jul. 1994 PhD, Researcher, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories
Sep. 1998 Assistant Professor, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University
Jun. 2001 Joined Nomura Securities, Co., Ltd. (Nomura Securities)
Nomura Research and Advisory Co., Ltd. (NRA) on loan
Jun. 2011 Executive Director, Investment Dept. NRA
Apr. 2013 Section Chief, Regional Financial Institutional and Public Sector Clients Consulting Dept., Nomura Securities
Aug. 2015 Director, Corporate Business Group, Mizuho Securities, Co., Ltd.
Sep. 2017 President & CEO, Tech & FinStrategy Inc. (to present)
Oct. 2017 Outside Director, Cellspect Co., Ltd. (to present)
Jun. 2018 Director, the Company (to present)
Outside Director, Delta-Fly Pharma, Inc. (to present)
Aug. 2019 Outside Director, Veritas In Silico Inc. (to present)
Aug. 2021 Outside Director, EGAIA Co., Ltd. (to present)
Dec. 2021 Outside Director, RMiC : Regenerative Medicine iPS Gateway Center Co., Ltd. (currently Repli-tech Co., Ltd.) (to present)
Feb. 2022 Director, TransMed, Inc. (to present)

Nobuo HANAI
Outside Director
Date of birth: Apr. 30, 1953

Career
Apr. 1976 Joined Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Feb. 2003 President, BioWa, Inc.
Jun. 2006 Executive Officer, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2008 Operating Director & Head of Development Dept., Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. (currently Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2009 Managing Executive Officer & Head of Development Dept., Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (Kyowa Kirin)
Jun. 2009 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer, Kyowa Kirin
Mar. 2010 Director & Executive Operating Officer, Kyowa Kirin
Mar. 2012 Executive Director, President & CEO, Kyowa Kirin
Mar. 2018 Executive Director, Chairman & CEO, Kyowa Kirin
Mar. 2019 Director & Chairman, Kyowa Kirin
May. 2020 Director, Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. (to present)
Jun. 2020 Outside Director, Shimadzu Corp. (to present)
Mar. 2021 Director, the Company (to present)
Jun. 2021 Outside Director, Aculys Pharma, Inc. (to present)
Oct. 2023 Outside Director, Hepalys Pharma, Inc. (to present)
Dec. 2023 Outside Director, Renalys Pharma, Inc. (to present)
Mar. 2024 Outside Director, Noile-Immune Biotech Inc. (to present)

Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member

Tatsuya NAGASE
Director, Full-time Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Date of birth: Dec. 7, 1956

Career
Apr. 1981 Joined Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd (currently KDDI CORPORATION)
Sep. 2000 Managing Director, KDDI Australia Pty Ltd
Apr. 2010 Internal Control Manager, Risk Management HQ, KDDI CORPORATION
Jul. 2011 Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Evolva Business Support, Inc. (currently Altius Link, Inc.)
Jul. 2013 Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, KDDI Evolva Call Advance, Inc. (currently Altius Link, Inc.)
Apr. 2017 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, ARISE analytics Inc.
Jun. 2017 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Japan Internet Exchange Co., Ltd.
Aug. 2017 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, SORACOM, INC.
Jul. 2019 Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, CREEMA LTD.
Oct. 2019 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Japaniace Co., Ltd. (to present)
May 2020 Full-time Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, GEOCODE CO.,Ltd.
Jun. 2022 Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, the Company (to present)
Jun. 2023 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, B dot Medical Inc. (to present)

Tadashi HORIUCHI
Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Date of birth: Sep. 26, 1946

Career
Apr. 1972 Joined Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (currently Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 1989 Senior Researcher, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (Daiichi)
Oct. 1996 General Manager, Drug Discovery Research Laboratory, Daiichi
Oct. 1999 Corporate Officer & General Manager, Drug Discovery Research Laboratory, Daiichi
Apr. 2007 Standing Statutory Auditor, Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd. (currently Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.)
Jul. 2008 Senior Coodinator, Center for Research Promotion, Comprehensive Research Promotion Organization, Keio University
Apr. 2016 Guest Professor, Clinical & Translational Research Center, Keio University Hospital (to present)
Sep. 2017 Science and Technical Advisor, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Jun. 2019 Statutory Auditor, the Company
Jun. 2020 Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, the Company (to present)

Takashi OHNO
Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member
Date of birth: Dec. 14, 1969

Career
Mar. 1996 Joined Showa Ota & Co. (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
Oct. 1998 Joined Asahi & Co. (currently KPMG AZSA LLC)
Apr. 2000 Registered as Certified Public Accountant
Apr. 2002 Registered as Certified Public Tax Accountant
Jan. 2006 Joined Ichiyoshi Securities Co., Ltd.
Feb. 2010 Joined CMIC Co., Ltd. (currently CMIC HOLDINGS Co., Ltd.)
Oct. 2016 Representative, Ohno Certified Public Accountant’s Office (to present)
Jun. 2021 Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member, the Company (to present)

CTO, Executive Officer

Tadashi MATSUURA
CTO, Executive Officer
Date of birth: Jan. 28, 1959

Career
Apr. 1988 Assistant, Shinshu University
Oct. 1992 Research Associate, Medical School, Dartmouth University
Oct. 1997 Researcher, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (currently The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Apr. 2002 HuBit genomix Inc. (HuBit genomix)
Apr. 2003 General Manager, Research and Development Dept., HuBit genomix
May 2005 Perseus Proteomics Inc. (the Company)
Feb. 2009 Head of Research and Development Dept., the Company
Jan. 2019 Executive Officer, the Company (to present)
Jun. 2019 Director, the Company
Jun. 2022 CTO, the Company (to present)

Advisors

Fuyuki Ishikawa
Vice President, Kyoto University; Director, Kyoto University Research Administration Center; Program Professor

Career
May 1982 Passed National Examination for Medical Practitioners
Jun. 1982 Resident, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Jun. 1983 Junior Resident, Jichi Medical University Hospital
Jun. 1984 Hematologist, The Third Dept. of Internal Medicine (Prof. F. Takahisa), The University of Tokyo
Oct. 1984 Research Associate, Carcinogenesis Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute
Apr. 1987 Assistant Professor, The Third Dept. of Internal Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital
May 1990 Ph. D (University of Tokyo)
Oct. 1990 Post Doctoral Fellow, Chemical & Biological Engineering Dept. (Prof. Thomas R. Cech), University of Colorado at Boulder
Oct. 1992 Associate Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Dept. of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Jan. 1998 Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Dept. of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr. 2002 Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Oct. 2015 The 23rd Member, Secretary of Section II, Science Council of Japan
Oct. 2017 The 24th Member, Chairperson of Section II, Science Council of Japan 2019 President, The 78th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association
Oct. 2022 Vice President, Kyoto University; Director, Kyoto University Research Administration Center; Specially Appointed Professor
Mar. 2023 Emeritus Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
Apr. 2024 Vice President, Kyoto University; Director, Kyoto University Research Administration Center; Program Professor (to present)

Kohei Tsumoto
Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Director, Center for Drug Design Research, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition

Career
Aug. 1995 Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Bioengineering, School of Engineering)
Aug. 2001 Lecturer, Tohoku University (Bioengineering, School of Engineering)
Oct. 2002 Assistant Professor, Tohoku University (Bioengineering, School of Engineering)
Mar. 2005 Assistant Professor, the University of Tokyo (Medical Genome, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences)
Apr. 2007 Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo (Medical Genome, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences)
May 2010 Professor, the University of Tokyo (Medical Proteomics Laboratory, The Institute of Medical Science) (to present)
Apr. 2013 Professor, the University of Tokyo (Dept. of Bioengineering, Dept. of Chemistry & Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering) (to present)
Apr. 2018 Advisor to President, the University of Tokyo (Administration, Research)
Apr. 2020 Executive Advisor to Director, Graduate School of Engineering (Planning)
Apr. 2021 Executive Advisor to President, the University of Tokyo (University Corporate Relations, Academic Excellence Enhancement) (to present)
Apr. 2023 Deputy Director, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (Education) (to present)

Yuji Kumagai
Emeritus Professor, Kitasato University

Career
Mar. 1989 Doctoral degree, Oita University Graduate School of Medicine
Apr. 1989 Assistant, Clinical Pharmacology, Jichi Medical University
Dec. 1991 Chronobiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota
Jul. 1995 Lecturer, Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Kitasato University
Apr. 2011 Professor, Kitasato Clinical Research Center
Apr. 2013 Director, Kitasato Clinical Research Center
Apr. 2023 Emeritus Professor, Kitasato University
Apr. 2023 Clinical Trial Advisor, Kitasato University Kitasato Institute Hospital