Nomura Holdings, Inc. | Directors

13 Directors, as of July 1, 2023

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Title / Responsibilities Name
(Date of Birth)
Business Experience
Chairman of the
Board of Directors

Member of the
Nomination Committee
Member of the
Compensation Committee

Koji Nagai
(Jan. 25, 1959)
Apr. 1981 Joined Nomura
Apr. 2003 Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Jun. 2003 Senior Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2007 Executive Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2008 Senior Corporate Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2009 Executive Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2011 Co-COO and Deputy President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2012 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Director and President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Aug. 2012 Representative Executive Officer & Group CEO (concurrently Director and President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Jun. 2013 Director, Representative Executive Officer & Group CEO (concurrently Director and President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2017 Director, Representative Executive Officer & President and Group CEO (concurrently Director and Chairman of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2020 Director and Chairman (concurrently Director and Chairman of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.) (Current)

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Director and Chairman of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

Director Kentaro Okuda
(Nov. 7, 1963)
Apr. 1987 Joined Nomura
Apr. 2010 Senior Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2012 Senior Corporate Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Aug. 2012 Senior Corporate Managing Director (concurrently Senior Corporate Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2013 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Senior Corporate Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2015 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2016 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Executive Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2017 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2018 Executive Managing Director and Group Co-COO (concurrently Director, Executive Managing Director and Deputy President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2019 Executive Managing Director and Deputy President, Group Co-COO
Apr. 2020 Representative Executive Officer and President, Group CEO (concurrently Representative Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Jun. 2020 Director, Representative Executive Officer, President & Group CEO (concurrently Representative Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Jun. 2021 Director, Representative Executive Officer, President & Group CEO (concurrently Representative Director and President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.) (Current)

<Other Principal Business Activities>
Representative Director and President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

Director Yutaka Nakajima
(Aug. 2, 1965)
Apr. 1988 Joined Nomura
Apr. 2011 Senior Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
May. 2015 Senior Managing Director
Apr. 2016 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Senior Corporate Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2017 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Executive Managing Director and Senior Corporate Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2018 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Executive Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2019 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Director and Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2021 Senior Managing Director (concurrently Representative Director and Deputy President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2023 Representative Executive Officer and Deputy President (concurrently Representative Director and Deputy President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.) (Current)

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Representative Director and Deputy President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

Director

Member of the Audit Committee (Full-Time)
Member of the Board Risk Committee

Shoji Ogawa
(Aug. 9, 1964)
Apr. 1987 Joined Nomura
Apr. 2007 Head of Investment Banking Strategic Planning Dept of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2008 Head of Capital Markets Dept. and Capital Solutions Dept. of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Jul. 2009 Head of Capital Markets Dept. of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2012 Head of Investment Banking Strategic Planning Dept. of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Jul. 2013 Head of Office of Audit Committee (concurrently Head of Office of Audit Committee of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Aug. 2016 Head of Office of Non-Executive Directors and Audit Committee (concurrently Head of Office of Non-Executive Directors and Audit Committee of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2017 Senior Managing Director and Group Internal Audit (concurrently Senior Managing Director and Internal Audit of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.)
Apr. 2021 Advisor
Jun. 2021 Director (Current)

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Corporate Auditor of Nomura Asia Pacific Holdings Co., Ltd.
Non-Executive Director of Nomura Holding America Inc.
Non-Executive Director of Instinet Incorporated

Director
(Outside Director)

Chairman of the
Audit Committee
Member of the Board Risk Committee

Noriaki Shimazaki
(Aug. 19, 1946)
Apr. 1969 Joined Sumitomo Corporation
Jun. 1998 Director of Sumitomo Corporation
Apr. 2002 Representative Director and Managing Director of Sumitomo Corporation
Jan. 2003 Member of the Business Accounting Council of the Financial Services Agency
Apr. 2004 Representative Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of Sumitomo Corporation
Apr. 2005 Representative Director and Executive Vice President of Sumitomo Corporation
Jan. 2009 Trustee of the IASCF Foundation (currently, IFRS Foundation)
Jul. 2009 Special Advisor of Sumitomo Corporation
Jun. 2011 Director of the Financial Accounting Standards Foundation
Chairman of Self-regulation Board and Public Governor of the Japan Securities Dealers Association
Sep. 2013 Advisor of the IFRS Foundation Asia-Oceania Office
Advisor of the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Current)
Jun. 2016 Outside Director (concurrently Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.) (Current)
Aug. 2019 Senior Advisor of the IFRS Foundation Asia-Oceania Office

<Other Principal Business Activities>
Outside Director of Loginet Japan Co., Ltd.
Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

Director
(Outside Director)

Chairman of the
Nomination Committee
Chairman of the
Compensation Committee

Kazuhiko Ishimura
(Sep. 18, 1954)
Apr. 1979 Joined Asahi Glass Company, Limited
Jan. 2006 Executive Officer, GM of Kansai Plant of Asahi Glass Company, Limited
Jan. 2007 Senior Executive Officer and GM of Electronics & Energy General Division of Asahi Glass Company, Limited
Mar. 2008 Representative Director and President & COO of Asahi Glass Company, Limited
Jan. 2010 Representative Director and President & CEO of Asahi Glass Company, Limited
Jan. 2015 Representative Director & Chairman of Asahi Glass Company, Limited
Jan. 2018 Director & Chairman of Asahi Glass Company, Limited
Jun. 2018 Outside Director (Current)
Mar. 2020 Director of AGC Inc.
Apr. 2020 President of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Apr. 2021 President and CEO of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Current)

<Other Principal Business Activities>
President of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Outside Director of Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Formerly Asahi Glass Company, Limited; name changed to AGC Inc. on July 1, 2018.

Director
(Outside Director)

Chairperson of the Board Risk Committee

Laura Simone Unger
(Jan. 8, 1961)
Jan. 1988 Enforcement Attorney of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC")
Oct. 1990 Counsel of U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Nov. 1997 Commissioner of the SEC
Feb. 2001 Acting Chairperson of the SEC
Jul. 2002 Regulatory Expert of CNBC
May 2003 Independent Consultant of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Aug. 2004 Independent Director of CA Inc.
Jan. 2010 Special Advisor of Promontory Financial Group
Dec. 2010 Independent Director of CIT Group Inc.
Nov. 2014 Independent Director of Navient Corporation (Current)
Jun. 2018 Outside Director (Current)

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Independent Director of Navient Corporation
Independent Director of Nomura Holding America Inc.
Independent Director of Nomura Securities International, Inc.
Independent Director of Nomura Global Financial Products Inc.
Independent Director of Instinet Holdings Incorporated

Director
(Outside Director)

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Board Risk Committee

Victor Chu
(Jun. 20, 1957)
Dec. 1982 Solicitor of the Supreme Court, Hong Kong
Jan. 1988 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Eastern Investment Group (Current)
Oct. 1988 Director and Council Member of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Jun. 1992 Advisory Committee Member of the Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong
Aug. 2003 Foundation Board Member of the World Economic Forum
Apr. 2018 Independent Director of Airbus SE (Current)
Jun. 2021 Outside Director (Current)

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Eastern Investment Group
Non-Executive Director of Grand Harbour Marina PLC
Chair of Council, University College London
Co-Chair, International Business Council of the World Economic Forum
Independent Director of Airbus SE

Director
(Outside Director)

Member of the Board Risk Committee

J.Christopher Giancarlo
(May 12, 1959)
Sep. 1984 Associate Attorney of Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon
Oct. 1985 Associate Attorney of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
Jan. 1992 Attorney, Founding Partner of Giancarlo & Gleiberman
Sep. 1997 Attorney, (Equity) Partner of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner
Apr. 2000 Vice President and Legal Counsel of Fenics Software
Apr. 2001 Executive Vice President of GFI Group Inc.
Jun. 2014 Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Jan. 2017 Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Oct. 2019 Independent Director of the American Financial Exchange (Current)
Jan. 2020 Senior Counsel of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (Current)
Jun. 2021 Outside Director (Current)

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Senior Counsel of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Independent Director of the American Financial Exchange
Principal of Digital Dollar Project
Independent Director of Nomura Securities International, Inc.
Independent Director of Nomura Global Financial Products Inc.

Director
(Outside Director)

Member of the Board Risk Committee

Patricia Mosser
(Feb. 14, 1956)
Jul. 1986 Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Columbia University
Jan. 1991 Economist and Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY)
Nov. 2006 Senior Vice President, FRBNY, Member of the FX Forum, Executive Meeting of East Asia and Pacific (EMEAP) Central Banks, Bank for International Settlements
Jan. 2007 Board Member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
Jun. 2007 Member of the Markets Committee, Bank for International Settlements
Jan. 2009 Acting Systemic Open Market Account Manager for the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
Oct. 2013 Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR), U.S. Treasury Department
Oct. 2013 Member of the Deputies Committee of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)
Jun. 2015 Senior Research Scholar and Director of Central Banking and Financial Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (Current)
Jun. 2021 Outside Director (Current)

<Other Principal Business Activities>
Senior Research Scholar
Director of the MPA Program in Economic Policy Management
Director of Central Banking and Financial Policy

All positions at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs

Independent Director of Nomura Holding America Inc.

Director
(Outside Director)

Member of the
Nomination Committee
Member of the
Compensation Committee

Takahisa Takahara
(Jul. 12, 1961)
Apr. 1991 Joined Unicharm Corporation
Jun. 1995 Director of Unicharm Corporation
Apr. 1996 Director, General Manager of Procurement Division and Deputy General Manager of International Division of Unicharm Corporation
Jun. 1997 Senior Director of Unicharm Corporation
Apr. 1998 Senior Director, General Manager of Feminine Hygiene Business Division of Unicharm Corporation
Oct. 2000 Senior Director, Responsible for Management Strategy of Unicharm Corporation
Jun. 2001 Representative Director, President of Unicharm Corporation
Jun. 2004 Representative Director, President & CEO of Unicharm Corporation (Current)
Jun. 2021 Outside Director (Current)

<Other Principal Business Activities>
Representative Director, President & CEO of Unicharm Corporation
Outside Director of Sumitomo Corporation

Director
(Outside Director)

Member of the Board Risk Committee

Miyuki Ishiguro
(Oct. 26, 1964)
Apr. 1991 Registered as an Attorney-at-Law and Joined Tsunematsu Yanase & Sekine (currently Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu)
Jan. 1999 Partner of Tsunematsu Yanase & Sekine
Jan. 2000 Partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (Current)
Oct. 2004 Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School
May 2015 Secretary General of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)
Feb. 2016 Council Member of the Radio Regulatory Council (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
Apr. 2016 Council Member of the Management Council of Hitotsubashi University
Apr. 2018 Vice President of the Tokyo Bar Association
Apr. 2019 Vice President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)
Mar. 2020 President-Elect of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) (Current)

<Other Principal Business Activities>
Partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
President-Elect of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Lasertec Corporation
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Benesse Holdings, Inc.

Director
(Outside Director)

Member of the Audit Committee

Masahiro Ishizuka
(Apr. 21, 1960)
Oct. 1984 Joined Deloitte Haskins and Sells International*
Apr. 1988 Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
Jun. 1997 Partner of Tohmatsu & Co.*
Jan. 1998 Deloitte & Touche LLP based in New York
Oct. 2007 Head of Audit and Technology Dept. of Business Administrative Division, of Tohmatsu & Co.*
Oct. 2010 Head of Office of Manual, of Quality Administrative Division, of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
Oct. 2010 Vice Chairman of the Audit Standards Committee of the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Nov. 2015 The Board Member of Deloitte Tohmatsu LLC
Jun. 2017 Executive Officer, General Manager of the Reputation Quality Risk Management Division of Deloitte Tohmatsu LLC and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
Jun. 2022 Ethics Officer of Deloitte Tohmatsu Group

<Other Principal Business Activities>
None

Currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC

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