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) |
Others
| May 2006 | Chairman, COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLIER'S ASSOCIATION (CESA) (incumbent) |
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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 (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 General Manager, Accounting and Financial Division (incumbent) |
| Feb. 2006 | Director, TAITO CORPORATION (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) |
Outside Director
Makoto Naruke
Date of Birth: September 4, 1955
| Sep. 1982 | Joined ASCII Corporation |
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| Jan. 1982 | Temporarily transferred to ASCII Microsfot 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 (incumbent) |
| Jun. 2000 | Director, SQUARE CO., LTD. (currently SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.) |
| Apr. 2003 | Director, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent) |
Auditors
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 | Standing auditor, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent) |
Outside Auditor
Tamotsu Iba
Date of Birth: December 24, 1935
| Apr. 1959 | Joined Sony Corporation |
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| Jun. 1994 | Executive Deputy President and Board Member |
| Jun. 2002 | Auditor, SQUARE CO., LTD. (currently, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.) |
| Jun. 2002 | Chairman and Board Member, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. |
| Apr. 2003 | Auditor, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent) |
| Jun. 2006 | Adviser, Sony Financial Holdings Inc. (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. (incumbent) |
| Apr. 2003 | Auditor, SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. (incumbent) |
| 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) |
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. (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 (incumbent) |
1. Mr. Makoto Naruke is an outside director of SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. as provided for in Article 2(15) of the Corporation Law of Japan.
2. Ryoichi Kobayashi, Tamotsu Iba, Norikazu Yahagi and Ryuji Matsuda are outside auditors of SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. as provided for in Article 2(16) of the Corporation Law of Japan.
