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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Epson announces its newest President.


  Epson announced that a meeting of its board of directors had approved a change of representative director and the appointment of a new president, effective April 1, 2025.

Reasons for change

  Epson aspires to achieving sustainability and enriching communities as part of its Epson 25 Renewed corporate vision. Accordingly, its businesses are focused on solving societal issues through a philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation.

  The 2025 fiscal year is the final year of Epson 25 Renewed. It is also a year during which Epson will finish formulating its next strategic corporate vision for driving future growth.

  It is important for the company to steadily execute its plans for the next generation and rapidly develop pioneering products and the technologies that support them in both growth and new areas.

  This transition in leadership, which was deliberated by the Director Nomination Committee and resolved by the Board of Directors, is thus intended to accelerate the construction of a solid management foundation aimed at enhancing corporate value, under a new management team that will be responsible for everything from formulating the next corporate vision to executing the strategies therein.

Name: Yasunori Ogawa
New Position: Chairman and Director 
Old Position: President and Representative Director / Chief Executive Officer

Name: Junkichi Yoshida
New Position: President and Representative Director Chief Executive Officer
Old Position: Director, Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division

Brief career history of the new Epson President

Name: Junkichi Yoshida
Date of birth: September 27, 1964
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Education: Faculty of Economics, Keio University

Career History
Joined Seiko Epson Corporation - 
April 1988
Appointed General Manager, Printer Strategic Planning Department - 
April 2012
Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, DX Division - 
April 2019
Appointed Executive Officer (current position) - 
June 2020
Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Operations Division - 
October 2020
Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division (current position) - 
April 2021
Appointed Director (current position) - 
June 2024
To be appointed President and Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer - 
April 2025
Number of Epson shares held: 14,500 (as of December 31, 2024)

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