Masatoshi Kawana*
Member of the Board
(November, 1953)
Career
| May 1978 | Joined the Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University |
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| September 1991 | Research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
| December 1991 | Research fellow at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
| March 2004 | Professor of Cardiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University |
| April 2005 | President of Aoyama Hospital, Tokyo Women's Medical University |
| April 2014 | Vice-president of Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital |
| November 2014 | Professor of General Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital |
| June 2018 | Outside Member of the Board of ITOCHU Corporation (current position) |
| February 2019 | Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University |
| April 2019 | Honorary Professor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University (current position) Specially Appointed Professor of Tokyo Women’s Medical University |
| December 2019 | Outside Director, MedPeer,Inc. |
- Indicates an outside director as provided in Paragraph 2, Clause 15 of the Corporate Law
Reason for selection
ITOCHU appointed Mr. Kawana as an Outside Director because it expects him to monitor and supervise ITOCHU's management from an independent perspective, drawing on his long experience as a physician at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, his service in important positions including Vice Director of that hospital and President of Tokyo Women's Medical University Aoyama Hospital, his hospital management experience and his advanced medical expertise. Mr. Kawana satisfies the independence standards prescribed by the Tokyo Stock Exchange and ITOCHU's own Independence Criteria. Accordingly, ITOCHU believes that he is unlikely to have conflicts of interest with general shareholders and has designated him as an independent officer.