a photo of Independent & Outside Director, Takako Masai.

Takako Masai

Independent & Outside Director

Career summaries

November, 1988

Joined Scotiabank, Tokyo

July, 1989

Joined the Toronto-Dominion Bank, Tokyo

March, 1998

Head of Financial Products Division, Tokyo Branch, Crédit Agricole Indosuez Bank (currently Crédit Agricole CIB)

May, 2007

General Manager, Capital Markets Division, Shinsei Bank, Limited (current SBI Shinsei Bank, Limited)

April, 2013

Corporate Officer, Head of Markets Research Department, Markets Sub Group, Shinsei Bank, Limited (currently SBI Shinsei Bank, Limited)

July, 2015

Executive Officer, General Manager of Markets Research Division, Shinsei Bank, Limited (currently SBI Shinsei Bank, Limited)

June, 2016

Member of the Policy Board, Bank of Japan (retired in June 2021)

June, 2021

Director, SBI Financial and Economic Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Current)

July, 2021

Outside Director, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (currently Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation) (retired in June 2023)

July, 2021

Outside Director, TOBISHIMA CORPORATION (Current)

July, 2021

Advisory Board member of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (Current)

August, 2021

Representative Director (currently Chairperson), SBI Financial and Economic Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Current)

August, 2021

Outside Director, BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd. (retired in August 2023)

April, 2022

Guest Professor, Jissen Women’s University (Current)

June, 2024

Outside Director of the Company (Current)

June, 2024

Outside Director, Daio Paper Corporation (Current)

August, 2024

Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Bewith, Inc. (Current)

December, 2024

Director, TNL Mediagene (Current)