Investor Relations

Management

Executive Officers

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Akimitsu Sano
Founder/Chief Executive Office
Oct 1997
Founded Coin Ltd. (Currently, Cookpad Inc.)
Sep 2004
Representative Director, Cookpad Inc.
Jul 2007
Chief Executive Officer and Director, Cookpad Inc.
May 2012
Director and Executive Officer, Cookpad Inc.
Jul 2012
Director, Cookpad Inc. (present post)
Mar 2016
Executive Officer, Cookpad Inc.
Jun 2016
Cookpad Limited (U.K.) Director (present post)
Oct 2023
Chief Executive Officer, Cookpad Inc. (present post)
Morio Inukai
Chief Financial Officer
Oct 1995
Joined Asahi & Co. (Currently KPMG AZSA LLC)
Jul 2007
Joined Goldman Sachs Realty Japan Ltd.
Nov 2011
Joined Venture Republic Inc.
Jul 2016
Financial Vice President, Cookpad Inc.
Nov 2016
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Cookpad Inc. (present post)
Rebecca Rippin
Mar 1990
Joined Mediterranean Savings Bank Venture Capital Division
Jun 1993
Joined The Fundación Cavanilles
Jun 1995
Joined The University of Alicante International Relations
Jan 2001
Founded ItyIs Siglo XXI, S.L.
Feb 2014
Chief Excecutive Officer,Cookpad Spain, S.L.
Mar 2021
Excecutive Officer, Cookpad Inc.(present post)

Directors

Akimitsu Sano
Rimpei Iwata
Apr 1996
Joined The Sanwa Bank, Limited (Currently The MUFG Bank, Ltd.)
Apr 1999
Export‐Import Bank of Japan (Currently Japan Bank for International Cooperation)
Sep 2005
Joined McKinsey & Company (Japan office)
Apr 2013
Nominated Partner, McKinsey & Company
Feb 2016
Executive Officer, Cookpad Inc.
Mar 2016
Director, Cookpad Inc.(present post)
Mar 2016
Chief Executive Officer, Cookpad Inc.
Tomoya Yasuda
Apr 1999
Joined Sumitomo Corporation
Apr 2008
Joined McKinsey & Company (Germany office)
Jul 2011
Manager of New Business Development, Cookpad Inc.
Aug 2012
Manager of Foods Market, Cookpad Inc.
Aug 2013
Manager of International Business, Cookpad Inc.
Sep 2015
Cookpad Limited (U.K.) Director (present post)
Apr 2016
Manager of International Business, Cookpad Inc.
Apr 2016
Vice President of International Business and Managing Director of International Business, Cookpad Inc.
Nov 2016
Executive Officer, Cookpad Inc.
Mar 2023
Director, Cookpad Inc. (present post)

Outside Directors

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Toru Kitagawa
Apr 1983
Joined Kanematsu-Gosho, Ltd. (currently Kanematsu Corporation)
Nov 1999
Manager of Corporate Planning, Japan Communications Inc.
Feb 2001
Senior Executive Financial Officer, Baltimore Technologies Japan Co., Ltd
Jan 2002
Finance Controller, Levi Strauss Japan K.K.
Sep 2006
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Officer, Starbucks Coffee Japan, Ltd.
Mar 2016
Outside Director for Cookpad Inc. (present post)
Jun 2017
Outside Director, KOA Corporation (present post)
Mar 2018
Outside Director, KAYAC Inc. (present post)
Hirotaka Tanaka
Apr 1998
Joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (currently Panasonic Corporation)
Sep 2007
Joined McKinsey & Company
Oct 2015
Joined BayCurrent Consulting, Inc.
Jan 2017
Joined SIGMAXYZ Inc.
Apr 2020
Joined SPACE FOODSPHERE Association as Director(present post)
Apr 2021
Appointed as Senior Executive Officer of SIGMAXYZ Inc.
Jan 2022
Appointed as Outside Director of BASE FOOD, Inc. (present post)
Mar 2022
Outside Director for Cookpad Inc. (present post)
Oct 2023
Chief Executive Officer, UnlocX Inc. (present post)
Takako Kato
Apr 1995
Joined Sumitomo Corporation
Aug 2009
Joined Inui Global Logistics Co., Ltd.
Apr 2013
Appointed as Manager of Finance Department
Apr 2016
Appointed as Manager of Corporate Management Department
Apr 2021
Appointed as Operating Officer (in charge of Corporate Management)
Apr 2022
Appointed as Operating Officer (in charge of General Affairs and Finance) (present)
Mar 2023
Outside Director for Cookpad Inc. (present post)
Trang Diep Kieu Le
(commonly called Christy Trang Le)
Feb 2006
Joined HSBC Bank(Vietnam) Ltd.
Dec 2007
Joined Leading Business Club(Vietnam)
Sep 2011
Joined Mckinsey and Company Incorporated USA
Dec 2012
Joined Misfit Wearables Corporation as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Jan 2016
Joined Fossil Vietnam Limited Liability Company as Managing Director
Mar 2018
Joined Facebook Vietnam as Country Director
Nov 2019
Joined Harrison-AI Pty Ltd as President of Vietnam (present post)
Apr 2020
Joined Arevo Inc. as Chief Financial Officer and General Manager Vietnam (present post)
Mar 2023
Outside Director for Cookpad Inc. (present post)

as of Oct 2023