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Company Name GMO Internet, Inc.
Established May 24, 1991
Head Office Cerulean Tower 4・6-12F, 26-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
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General:
Investor Relations:		 +81-3-5456-2555
+81-3-3461-2222
Fax: +81-3-5456-2556
Corporate Site:
Investor Relations Site:		 http://www.gmo.jp/en/
http://ir.gmo.jp/en/
Business Segments Web Infrastructure & E-commerce
Internet Media
Internet Securities
Social Media & Smartphone Platform
Capital JPY 2 billion (March 31, 2011)
Stock Exchange Tokyo Stock Exchange : First Section
Stock Code 9449
Board of Directors
    *denotes current position

     

    Masatoshi Kumagai

    Group CEO and Representative Director
    May 1991   Appointed CEO of VoiceMedia (now GMO Internet)
    November 1999   Appointed CEO of MagClick (now GMO AD Partners) (served concurrently)
    April 2000   Appointed to Board of Directors of MagClick
    August 2001   Appointed Representative Director and Chairman of iSLE (now GMO Cloud)
    March 2003   Appointed CEO and Chairman of the Board of GMO Internet Appointed Chairman of iSLE (now GMO Cloud)
    March 2004   Appointed Chairman of the Board at paperboy&co.*
    December 2004   Appointed Chairman of the Board at Card Commerce Services (now GMO Payment Gateway)
    March 2007   Appointed Chairman of the Board at MagClick (now GMO Ad Partners)*
    May 2008   Appointed Group CEO and Representative Director*
    December 2011   President and Chairman of the Board at GMO Payment Gateway*
       


     

    Masashi Yasuda

    Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer, Certified Public Accountant
    April 2000   CPA certification
    Joined GMO Internet
    September 2001   Appointed Head of Corporate Strategy
    March 2002   Appointed to Board of Directors
    March 2003   Appointed Executive Director and Head of Investor Relations and Group Corporate Strategy Office and to the iSLE (now GMO Cloud)Board of Directors
    March 2004   Appointed Head of Management Division and Group Corporate Strategy (while continuing to serve concurrently as Executive Director and Head of Investor Relations)
    December 2004   Appointed to Board of Auditors at Card Commerce Services (now GMO Payment Gateway)*
    March 2005   Promoted to Managing Director* and appointed to Board of Auditors at paperboy&co.*
    March 2008   Appointed to Board of Directors at GMO AD Partners, Inc.*
    May 2008   Appointed Head of Management Division*


     

    Hiroyuki Nishiyama

    Managing Director
    September 1999   Joined MagClick (now GMO AD Partners)
    April 2000   Appointed CEO
    March 2001   Appointed to Board of Directors of GMO Internet
    March 2003   Appointed Executive Director and Head of Group Media
    March 2006   Appointed Chairman of the Board at MagClick (now GMO AD Partners)
    March 2007   Appointed Managing Director, GMO Internet*
    May 2008   Appointed Head of Group Business Division*


     

    Kazuhiko Miyazaki

    Managing Director
    February 1999   Joined GMO Internet as Consumer Services Manager
    April 2002   Appointed Head of Executive Office
    August 2004   Appointed CEO of Telecom Online
    September 2004   Appointed Head of Sales, GMO Internet
    January 2006   Appointed Head of Media Sales, GMO Internet
    March 2006   Appointed Executive Director (while serving concurrently as Appointed Head of Media Sales), GMO Internet
    June 2008   Appointed Head of Sales (while serving concurrently as Executive Director) , GMO Internet*
    March 2009   Appointed Managing Director, GMO Internet*


     

    Tadashi Ito

    Executive Director
    October 1997   Joined GMO Internet
    December 2001   Appointed Head of OEM
    March 2004   Appointed Head of Business Partner Division
    September 2004   Appointed to Board of Directors (while serving concurrently as Head of Business Partner Division)
    August 2006   Appointed Head of Business Development (serving concurrently as Director)
    April 2008   Appointed Executive Director*
    January 2009   Appointed Head of Business Division*


     

    Hirofumi Yamashita

    Executive Director
    April 1985   Joined IBM Japan
    February 2002   Appointed Head of Financial Solutions Development Division
    April 2007   Joined GMO Internet as Acting Head of Group Systems Support Office
    April 2008   Appointed Head of Group Systems Support Office
    anuary 2009   Appointed Head of Systems*
    March 2009   Appointed to Board of Directors (while serving concurrently as Head of Systems)
    December 2010   Appointed to Board of Directors of GMO Payment Gateway*
    March 2011   Appointed Executive Director*


     

    Mitsuru Aoyama

    Board of Directors
    September 1995   Joined iSLE (now GMO Cloud)
    May 1997   Appointed CEO*
    March 2003   Appointed to Board of Directors of GMO Internet*


     

    Koichi Tachibana

    Board of Directors
    June 2000   Joined GMO Internet
    December 2001   Appointed Head of Corporate Services and Auditing
    March 2003   Appointed to Board of Directors and Head of Group Legal Department*


     

    Toshihiko Sugaya

    Board of Directors
    January 2000   Joined GMO Internet
    July 2001   Appointed Head of General Affairs
    March 2003   Appointed Head of Group General Affairs
    March 2004   Appointed to the Board of Directors (while serving concurrently as Head of Group General Affairs)
    June 2005   Appointed Director, Head of Group General Affairs and Human Resources*


     

    Katsumi Arisawa

    Board of Directors
    May 1999   Joined GMO Internet
    July 2001   Appointed Corporate Strategy Office Manager
    September 2001   Certified as Tax Accountant
    March 2003   Appointed Head of Group Corporate Strategy
    March 2005   Appointed to Board of Directors* (while serving concurrently as Head of Group Corporate Strategy)
    May 2008   Appointed Director and Head of Group Finance Department*


     

    Tetsuhiro Arai

    Board of Directors, Certified Public Accountant
    December 1999   Joined GMO Internet
    April 2001   Appointed Corporate Strategy Office Manager
    July 2001   Resigned from GMO Internet
    July 2001   Established Arai Accounting Firm
    December 2003   Returned to GMO Internet
    April 2004   Appointed Head of Group Investment Strategy Office
    March 2005   Appointed to Board of Directors (while serving concurrently as Head of Group Investment Strategy Office)*
    December 2010   Certified as CPA


     

    Shintaro Takahashi

    Board of Directors
    October 2001   Joined MagClick (now GMO AD Partners) as Business Development Manager
    March 2002   Appointed to Board of Directors
    July 2002   Appointed Director and Head of Business Division
    January 2003   Appointed Director and Head of Sales Division
    March 2006   Appointed CEO of MagClick (now GMO AD Partners)*
    July 2007   　Appointed CEO of GMO Mobile*
    March 2008   Appointed Director of GMO Internet*
    October 2010   Appointed Chairman of the Board of GMO NIKKO (now GMO NIKKO)*
    December 2011   Appointed Chairman of the Board of Searchteria


     

    Kentaro Sato

    Board of Directors
    January 2003   Joined paperboy&co.
    January 2005   Appointed Head of Executive Office
    February 2006   Appointed to Board of Directors and as Head of Corporate Planning
    March 2007   Appointed Director, Senior Vice President, and Head of Corporate Planning
    March 2008   Appointed Representative Director, Senior Vice President, and Head of Corporate Planning
    March 2009   Appointed Representative Director and CEO (current)
    March 2010   Appointed to Board of Directors of GMO Internet


     

    Toshiaki Horiuchi

    Director
    July 2002   Joined GMO Media
    March 2003   Appointed to Board of Directors and as General Manager of Systems at GMO Media
    March 2008   Joined GMO Internet and appointed Head of Innovation and Technology Systems Office*
    February 2011   Appointed to Board of Directors*
       


     

    Masahiro Muto

    Board of Auditors
    March 1998   Joined GMO Internet
    March 1998   Appointed to Board of Auditors*


     

    Manabu Kinoshita

    Board of Auditors, Certified Tax Accountant

    April 1967   Joined Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau (Ministry of Finance Bureau)
    July 1976   Appointed Tax Examiner
    July 1985   Appointed Senior Tax Examiner
    July 1989   Appointed Chief Examiner, Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau
    July 1992   Appointed National Examiner
    August 1993   Certified as Tax Accountant
    March 1997   Appointed to Board of Auditors of GMO Internet (current)


     

    Masakazu Iwakura

    Auditor, Solicitor
    April 1987   Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association registration Joined Nishimura Law Office (now Nishimura & Partners)
    April 1992   Professor, Law Faculty, Rikkyo University
    September 1993   Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
    August 1994   Arnold & Porter LLP
    January 1996   Partner, Nishimura & Partners*
    April 2004   Professor, Law Faculty, Hitotsubashi University*
    June 2005   Auditor, ICJ*
    April 2005   Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University
    June 2005   Appointed External Auditor of Kakaku.com, Inc.
    April 2006   Professor, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University*
    June 2006   External Director, FANCL Corporation
    April 2007   Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Law School
    January 2008   Financial External Auditor, Kakaku.com
    June 2009   External Director, Kakaku.com*
    March 2010   Appointed to Board of Auditors of GMO Internet*
    June 2010   Appointed External Director, Nidec Corporation*
    June 2011   Appointed External Auditor, Imperial Hotel*

     

    Keigo Ogura

    Auditor, Certified Public Accountant
    August 1996   Joined Century Auditing Firm (now Ernst & Young Japan)
    April 2000   Certified as CPA
    January 2001   Partners, Inc.
    September 2002   Established Ogura Certified Public Accountant Office (current)
    March 2004   Appointed to G Board of Auditors of GMO Internet
Advisor
     

    Fujio Maruyama

    Techology Advisor
    (Waseda University, Information Production Systems Research, Affiliate Professor)

        Graduated from Tokyo University, Education Faculty
        Doctorate in Social Science Research, Hitotsubashi University
        Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University, Professor
        Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University, Chancellor for two terms as the university transitioned to a 4-year school
        Waseda University, Information Production Systems Research, Professor
        Future University Hakodate, Information Faculty Professor (Special Appointment)
        Japan Java Users Group, Chairman
        Cloud Research, representative
        Japan Android Group, member
Employees
Full-time employees (consolidated): 1,957
Contract employees (consolidated): 240
Total: 2,197 (end of September 2011)
Affiliations IA Japan - Internet Association Japan
ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
JAIPA - Japan Internet Providers Association
JIAA - Japan Internet Advertising Association
JPNIC - Japan Network Information Center
Metropolitan Police Department - High Tech Crime Prevention Association
Trading Banks Aozora Bank (Headquarters)
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Shibuya Branch)
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (Headquarters)
Mizuho Bank (Shibuya Branch)
Resona Bank (Shibuya Branch)
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Shibuya-ekimae Branch)
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