Board of Directors
President and Representative Director
Yoichi Wada
Date of Birth: May 28, 1959
| Apr. 1984 | Joined Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. |
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| Apr. 2000 | Joined SQUARE CO., LTD. (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.) |
| May 2000 | COO |
| 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) |
| Feb. 2006 | Chairman and Director, TAITO CORPORATION |
| 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) (incumbent) (May 2006-) |
| Vice Chairman, Digital Content Use Promotion Conference (Sep. 2008-) |
Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Keiji Honda
Date of Birth: December 29, 1957
| Apr. 1982 | Joined Nomura. CO., LTD. |
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| 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) |
Director
Yosuke Matsuda
Date of Birth: April 27, 1963
| Apr. 1987 | Joined Mitsui Life Insurance Company Ltd. |
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| May 1995 | Joined Actus (currently Grant Thornton TAIYO ASG) |
| Dec. 1998 | Joined SQUARE CO., LTD. (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.) |
| Feb. 2000 | Joined Ota Showa Ernst & Young Co., Ltd. (currently Shin Nihon Ernst & Young) |
| Oct. 2001 | Senior Vice President, SQUARE 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) |
Director
Yukinobu Chida
Date of Birth: September 29, 1950
| Aug. 1982 | Director, ENIX CORPORATION (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.) |
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| 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) |
Outside Director
Makoto Naruke
Date of Birth: September 4, 1955
| Sep. 1982 | Joined ASCII Corporation |
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| 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) |
Corporate Auditor
Standing Auditor
Ryoichi Kobayashi
Date of Birth: October 25, 1946
| Apr. 1971 | Joined Nomura Computing Center Co., Ltd. (NCC) (currently, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.) |
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| 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) |
Outside Auditor
Norikazu Yahagi
Date of Birth: December 2, 1942
| Apr. 1966 | Joined IBM Japan, Ltd. |
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| 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, Niscom Inc. |
| 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) |
Outside Auditor
Ryuji Matsuda
Date of Birth: April 30, 1955
| Apr. 1986 | Registered as Attorney and CPA Joined Kawai, Takeuchi, Nishimura and Inoue Law Office |
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| 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) |
Auditor
Nobuhiro Saito
Date of Birth: August 9, 1943
| Apr. 1966 | Joined Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Ltd. (currently Shinsei Bank, Limited.) |
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| 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) |
Honorary Chairman
Yasuhiro Fukushima
Date of Birth: August 18, 1947
| Sep. 1975 | Founded Eidansha Boshu Service Center, President and Representative Director |
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| 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) |
- Mr. Makoto Naruke is an outside director of SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. as provided for in Article 2(15) of the Corporation Law of Japan.
- Ryoichi Kobayashi, Norikazu Yahagi and Ryuji Matsuda are outside auditors of SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD. as provided for in Article 2(16) of the Corporation Law of Japan.
