Board of Directors

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  Mr. Takuya Inoue was appointed Representative Director, President & Group CEO of CELM, Inc. in June 2026. After joining CELM in 2019 as Head of New Business Development, he led the company’s IPO process in 2021 as General Manager of Corporate Planning, and in 2022 was appointed Director, overseeing all of the Group’s business divisions. He served as Representative Director and Vice President from April 2024.
  Prior to joining CELM, he began his career at Business Consultant Co., Ltd. in 2000, where he was responsible for the full cycle of sales strategy—from planning through execution—as Head of the Osaka Branch and the Kansai Region. In 2008, at PMI Consulting, he worked as a consultant specializing in organizational and human resource development. At WILL SEED, he served as Director and COO, and as head of its Singapore subsidiary, drove new business development across ASEAN. At Uzabase, which he joined in 2018, he served as Managing Director of the SPEEDA business, where he launched the customer success organization and led client problem-solving and new service development.
  He holds a bachelor’s degree from Osaka City University.

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  After graduating from Sophia University in 1990, he joined Recruit Image Co., Ltd., where he gained experience in sales, consulting, and training instruction. In 1998, he joined CELM, served as the general manager of Planning Department and the branch manager of Kansai Branch Office, and then assumed the president and CEO (present post) in 2010. He was appointed to the managing director of CELM ASIA and the general manager of CELM (Shanghai) Inc. He has been a consistent proponent of ““Human resource development synchronizing with philosophy and strategy,” and and for the past 20 years has led initiatives in developing next management leaders, building human resource development systems, fostering of global human resources, pervading philosophies, organizational climate reformation. While working at the forefront of client’s projects, he continues to actively communicate CELM’s philosophy and approach to human resource development that drives management and business excellence.

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  After graduating from the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University in 1994, he joined ASAHI BANK (currently RESONA BANK). He engaged in wholesales in the domestic department and Germany branch, and management tasks relating to financial deal/bond issue of large corporations. After working as senior executives of several mid-sized companies and engaging in stock listing and management system development, he founded JANGLE Labo. While consulting business, he is working on a variety of activities such as explaining business models of growing companies for financial professionals. He joined CELM and assumed his current post in 2017.

• Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) Tatsuo Watanabe

  After graduating from Meiji University in 1987, he joined Sumitomo Life Insurance Company. Since 2004, he has been serving as an auditor/external director at listed companies at such as TSE Mothers and First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, while concurrently served as Chief Advisor of Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, and Director of Japan Open Innovation Council. He has been working on overall corporate management and corporate governance for the companies which are from start-ups to publicly traded.　He was appointed as External Director of CELM in 2020.

• Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) Kiyoshi Hirono

  He passed the second stage exam for the certified public accountant in 1995. After graduating from the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University in 1997, he joined the auditing firm Tohmatsu & Co. and engaged in, besides auditing companies listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s First Section and foreign companies, IPO supporting tasks to assist client companies to be listed. He worked in Gaga Communications, Inc. before setting up his own firm in 2005. He currently serves as the representative director and president of WIDE BRAIN and the representative of HIRONO SOGO Accounting Firm to provide services including consultations for IR, M&A, and IPO and assistances for venture companies. He was appointed as External Auditor of CELM in 2018, and he became Outside Director of CELM in 2023.

• Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) Mihoko Shintani

  She graduated from Keio University in 2001. In 2006, she was registered with the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association and joined TMI Associates. She has been a part-time employee of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) since 2017 and a partner of TMI Associates since January 2020. In addition to IP strategy support and litigation, she has a particularly deep knowledge of the fields of AI / IoT / data (protection legislation, transactions) / aerospace / information / communications / media / IT. In 2021, she became an Outside director of CELM.

Executive Officer – Corporate Strategy & Governance

• Executive Officer, Head of Strategy & Corporate Development Takeshi Haruna

  As Executive Officer and Head of Strategy & Corporate Development, Takeshi Haruna oversees CELM Group’s corporate actions, including capital policy, M&A, and financial strategy, while concurrently serving as a board director of group companies. Prior to joining CELM, he worked in the Investment Banking Division of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, where he engaged in cross-border M&A advisory and other investment banking services covering financial and capital strategy. He then led new business development at Uzabase before joining CELM in 2021. He holds a Master’s degree in Managerial Economics from the University of Nottingham and a Bachelor’s degree from Keio University.

Executive Officer – Business Operations

• Head of Executive & Middle Management Division Tomoyuki Yasuike

  After graduating from the College of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University in 2003, he joined Cosmosmore Co., Ltd. (currently COSMOS INITIA Group) and engaged in real-estate development projects. He also engaged in the project of formulating and pervading the corporate philosophy. In 2006, he joined CELM, served as the manager of Eastern Japan MKT1 Department and the managing officer of Eastern Japan Area, and then assumed the present post. He mainly engaged in: building and managing a system for fostering management leaders; pervasion of company’s philosophy which serves as the foundation of group management; reformation of corporate climate; and PMI project. In an era of increasing diversification, he has been searching for an eigensolution for each company to maximize the intrinsic capability of human resources and organizations and to create strong and lasting management foundations.

• Executive & Middle Management Division Takuto Matsumura

  After graduating from the Faculty of Economics, Kansai University in 1995, he joined KEYENCE Corporation and engaged in consulting sales and area marketing strategies of sensors for factory automation, image processing cameras and data collection for various kinds of manufacturing industries including Automobiles, Steels, Chemicals, Electronics, and Semiconductors. In 2003, he joined CELM. He served as the manager of Business Incubation Office, and then in 2020, assumed the branch manager of Kansai Branch Office and the managing officer of Western Japan Area. He has been working towards the realization of talent managements that contributes to business developments.

• Executive & Middle Management Division Yukihiro Toda

  After graduating from Nihon University (department of law) in 2003, he joined CELM as the very first new graduate employee of the company. He served as head of East Japan MKT2 department and general manager of Executive Development department. He is involved in increasing the effectiveness of client companies’ succession plans, and providing plan formulation and operational support for training and identifying president/CEO candidates.From 2023, he is responsible for implementing the “Succession Survey” to investigate the actual status of president/CEO succession plans.

• Executive & Middle Management Division Shingo Nakano

  After completing his master’s program in 2004, he joined Business Consultants, Inc. As the manager of the Sendai office and the Tokyo office, he was responsible for overall planning to execution of sales strategies. After that, he joined CELM in 2012 after working as an executive officer at a boutique consulting company. Appointed to current position after serving as Sales Promotion Office Manager, Marketing Department 2 Manager, and Strategy Promotion Unit Manager. He is mainly involved in client company management leader development, strategy implementation support consulting, and company-wide change management.