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Founder of MonotaRO Co., Ltd., Kinya Seto is a businessperson who has been at the helm of 6 different companies and presently holds the position of Chairman for MonotaRO Co., Ltd. and President, CEO & Representative Director at LIXIL Group Corp., Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at LIXIL Corp. (a subsidiary of LIXIL Group Corp.). In his past career he held the position of Manager-Electronic Commerce & First Steel Planning at Sumitomo Corp. and Manager-Special Steel at Sumitomo Corp. of Americas (a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corp.), Senior Vice President for W.W. Grainger, Inc. Chief Executive Officer at Grainger Global Online Business Ltd. and Director at Grainger Asia Pacific KK (both are subsidiaries of W.W. Grainger, Inc.) and President & Director at K-Engine Corp. Kinya Seto received an undergraduate degree from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Kaoru Seto is on the board of NEC Corp. and Ricoh Leasing Co., Ltd. In his past career Mr. Seto held the position of Director at Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd.

Kinya Yada worked at Nichiryoku Co., Ltd.
from 2004 to 2019 and held the position of Director in 2019.

Kinya Tamura currently works as the President of Nippon Doken Co., Ltd.

Kinya Nagasuna is currently working as a Non-Executive Director at Nippon Nyukazai Co. Ltd.
and as a Managing Executive Officer at Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

Kinya Kawahara worked as an Executive Officer & Head-Solutions Business at Tachibana Eletech Co., Ltd.

Kinya Tamaki is currently the Representative Director at Aoyama Gakuin Human Innovation Consulting, Inc. since 2008 and a Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University since 1997.
Tamaki's former position was as an Independent Outside Director at Atled Corp.

Kinya Okauchi formerly worked at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., as Vice Chairman & Chief Audit Officer from 2005 to 2012, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, Inc., as Director, and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp., as President & Director from 2005 to 2012.
Mr. Okauchi received his graduate degree in 1974 from the University of Tokyo.

Kinya Kusano is an Independent Outside Director at IMV Corp.
since 2004.
He previously worked as the President & Representative Director at Kurashokai KK.

Kinya Kikuya is currently working as a Managing Executive Officer at SAKURA KCS Corp.

Kinya Horikoshi currently works at amanacliq Shanghai Ltd., as Chairman from 2018, amana, Inc., as Director, Head-International & Lifestyle Contents from 2019, and Amanasalto Co., Ltd., as President & Representative Director from 2012.

Kinya Ito currently works at Sanyo Chemical Industries Ltd., as Manager-Accounting.

Kinya Naito currently works at Joshin Denki Co., Ltd., as Independent Outside Director from 2017 and FALCO HOLDINGS Co., Ltd., as Independent Outside Director from 2016.

Kinya Komura currently works at Tatung-Okuma Co., Ltd., as Chairman, Heisaka Foundry Co., Ltd., as Chairman, and Okuma Corp., as Director & General Manager-Manufacturing from 2017.

Kinya Morimoto worked as a Director of Corporate Communications at Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
from 2011 to 2012.

Kinya Ninagawa is a Senior Managing Director at Mizuho Kigyo Nenkin Kikin since 2012.
He was an Independent Director at Chuo Warehouse Co., Ltd.
from 2010 to 2017.
He also held positions as President & Director at Mizuho Nenkin Kenkyusho KK and Managing Executive Officer at Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.

Kinya Jikumaru is currently an Outside Director at HEIWADO CO., LTD.
and an Auditor at Frameworx, Inc. Previously, he worked as an Outside Director at Kawata Mfg.
Co., Ltd.
from 2016 to 2018.
He obtained his undergraduate degree from Kyoto University in 1996.

Kinya Yanagawa served as a Senior Managing Executive Officer at Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd.
from 1978 to 2012.
He also served as a Director & Executive Vice President at Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd.
from 2016 to 2017.
Yanagawa received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Tohoku University in 1978.

Kinya Usuda is currently the President & Representative Director at Advanced Mask Inspection Technology, Inc. He previously worked as a Director at NuFlare Technology, Inc. from 2007 to 2011.
He also worked as a Manager-Fourth Semiconductor Process Development at TOSHIBA Corp.

Kinya Fukuda is currently the Representative Director at Artra Planning KK since 2018.
Prior to this, he worked as a Director at Artra Group Corp.
from 2016 to 2018.

Kinya Yumura currently works at Fujimoto Sangyo Co., Ltd., as Managing Director.

Kinya Suzuki has held positions as an Independent Outside Director at Rhythm Co., Ltd.
since 2018 and at Soshin Electric Co., Ltd.
since 2021.

Kinya Nakaoka is currently the Director & Manager-Corporate Planning at WDB Holdings Co., Ltd.
He previously worked as a Director at Umino Co., Ltd.
He completed his undergraduate degree at Osaka University in 1995.

Matthew Yan En Seto worked as a Portfolio Manager & Senior Analyst at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC.
Prior to that, he was a Vice President at HSBC Securities (USA), Inc. from 2001 to 2006.
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1998 and his MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008.

Nicholas Seto is the founder and CEO of Target Tape, Inc. since 2010.
He is also the founder of Icoin Farms, Inc. Mr. Seto's former job was as an Independent Director at DMG Blockchain Solutions, Inc. from 2019 to 2022.
He received an undergraduate degree from Sauder School of Business.

Kenji Seto is currently working as a Non-Executive Director at Marubeni-Itochu Steel, Inc. and as an Executive Officer & President-Metals Company at ITOCHU Corp.

Mr. Thomas C.
Seto is a Vice President at Calvert Research & Management, a Vice President at Eaton Vance Short Duration Strategic Income Fund and a Managing Director & Head of Investment Management at Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC.
He joined Calvert Research and Management in 2016.
Mr. Seto began his career in the investment management industry in 1991.
He has been affiliated with Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, an investment adviser and majority-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance, since 1998.
Before joining Parametric, he served as the head of U.S.
equity index investments at Barclays Global Investors.
He earned a B.S.
in electrical engineering from the University of Washington and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Hideaki Seto has held the following positions in his career: Representative Director at Japan Elevator Service Hokkaido Co., Ltd.
since 2015, and Senior Managing Executive Officer at Japan Elevator Service Holdings Co., Ltd.
since 2012.

Mr. Paul J.
Seto, Jr. is a Senior Analyst at Lee Financial Group, Inc. Prior to joining Lee Financial Group in May 2014, Mr. Seto was employed as an Account Executive at Varner Brothers, a Director of Research at Aventis Asset Management LLC, a Wealth Manager at First Hawaiian Bank, a Portfolio Manager at Mantis Trading LLC, a Research Analyst at Altegris Investments and at Welton Investments, and a Currency Trader at Graham Capital Management.
He also worked at Redleaf Capital LLC and at C Trade.
Mr. Seto received his BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also both a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.