Mizuho Financial : Changes of Directors and Executive Officers (PDF/202KB)

November 26, 2021

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

Changes of Directors and Executive Officers

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. hereby announces changes of Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Officers (including changes in their areas of responsibility, etc.) of the following entities within the Group :

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.	(MHFG)
Mizuho Bank, Ltd.	(MHBK)
Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.	(MHTB)
Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.	(MHSC)

Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd. (MHRT)

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【Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (MHFG)】

(Effective as of November 26, 2021)

	Name			New Position			Current Position
			Member of the	Head of Risk Management		Member of the
	Motonori		Board of Directors,		Board of Directors,	Head of Risk Management
		Group / Head of Compliance
	Wakabayashi		Senior Executive		Senior Executive	Group
		Group*
			Officer		Officer
	Masaomi		Group Executive	Attached to Compliance		Senior Executive	Head of Compliance Group
	Takada		Officer	Group		Officer

(Note1) Asterisk indicates 'Acting' Head of Compliance Group

(Note2) 'Group Executive Officer' is executive officer (EO) defined in our internal regulations, not EO as defined in the Company Act

(Effective as of January 17, 2022)

Name		New Position		Current Position
	Senior Executive		Senior Executive	Co-Head of IT & Systems
Koji Yonei	Head of IT & Systems Group
	Officer		Officer	Group
			Senior Executive	Group Chief Digital
	Group Executive	Attached to IT & Systems	Innovation Officer / Head of
Satoshi Ishii		Officer (Representative
	Officer	Group	IT & Systems Group / Head
			Executive Officer)	of Operations Group

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(Effective as of April 1, 2022)

	Name		New Position		Current Position
			Member of the		Member of the Board of
	Yasuhiro Sato			Directors,
		Board of Directors
				Chairman (Kaicho)
					Member of the Board of
	Tatsufumi				Directors, President &
		Resigned		Group CEO
	Sakai
				(Representative
					Executive Officer)
					Attached to IT & Systems
	Satoshi Ishii		Resigned		Group Executive Officer
					Group
	Masaomi				Attached to Compliance
			Resigned		Group Executive Officer
	Takada				Group

(Effective in late June 2022)

	Name		New Position		Current Position
	Yasuhiro Sato		Resigned		Member of the Board
			of Directors

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【Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (MHBK)】

(Effective as of November 26, 2021)

	Name		New Position		Current Position
			Head of Risk Management
	Motonori		Deputy President &		Deputy President &	Head of Risk Management
			Group / Head of
	Wakabayashi		Executive Officer		Executive Officer	Group
			Compliance Group*
	Masaomi		Resigned		Managing Executive	Head of Compliance Group
	Takada			Officer

(Note) Asterisk indicates 'Acting' Head of Compliance Group

(Effective as of January 17, 2022)

	Name		New Position		Current Position
			Deputy President &		Deputy President &	Co-Head of IT & Systems
	Koji Yonei		Head of IT & Systems Group
			Executive Officer		Executive Officer	Group
					Deputy President &	Chief Digital Innovation Officer
	Satoshi Ishii		Resigned		/ Head of IT & Systems Group
			Executive Officer
					/ Head of Operations Group

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(Brief Personal Record of New President & CEO of MHBK)

Resigned

Resigned

Tatsufumi Sakai

Koji Fujiwara

Masahiko Kato

Deputy President*

(Representative

Director)

President & CEO* (Representative Director)

Member of the Board of Directors (not full-time)

(Note) Asterisks indicate directors expected to concurrently serve as executive officers.

(Effective as of April 1, 2022)

NameNew Position (Effective as of April 1, 2021)Current Position

President & CEO* (Representative Director)

Name	Masahiko Kato
Business Experience	Apr. 2021	Deputy President* (Representative Director) (current)
	Apr. 2020	Managing Executive Officer,
		In Charge of Banking and Head of Area of MHBK
	Apr. 2019	Executive Officer,
		General Manager of Nagoya Corporate Banking Department of MHBK
	Apr. 2018	Executive Officer, General Manager of Seoul Branch of MHBK
	July 2016	General Manager of Seoul Branch of MHBK
	Nov. 2013	General Manager of Hanoi Branch of MHBK
	Apr. 1988	Joined our group
Education	Mar. 1988	Graduated from Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University
Date of Birth	May 23, 1965

(Note) Asterisks indicate directors expected to concurrently serve as executive officers.

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