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NIGO launched his own fashion brand in the 1990s, taking the world by storm and paving the way for streetwear culture today. In 2010, he started the lifestyle brand HUMAN MADE, based on the theme of “The Future is in the Past”. In 2016, he founded the Company and assumed the position of Director. Currently CEO and Creative Director, NIGO oversees brand strategy and the creative department. He also serves as Artistic Director of KENZO, part of LVMH Fashion Group, since 2021. He has served as the creative director of various brands and corporations, including the launch of two capsule collections with LOUIS VUITTON in 2020 and 2021. 

Junichi Yanagisawa is Chief Financial Officer, a position he assumed in 2018. He was actively involved in the preparations for the establishment of the Company. Prior to this, he provided advisory services for statutory audits, IPOs, M&A, business revitalization, and corporate restructuring at consulting firms Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC and Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC.
Junichi is a Certified Public Accountant in Japan and a Certified Member Analyst of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan.

Shion Okamoto has served as External Director since 2023. She is the Engagement Manager of Finance Management Division of Z Holdings Corporation since April 2022, seconded from Yahoo Japan Corporation, which she joined in 2016. From August 2021 to March 2022, she served as CFO and General Counsel of the subsidiary YJ Capital Inc. (currently known as Z Venture Capital Corporation) to which she was first seconded to execute new investments, monitor startups in Japan and overseas, and manage funds. Shion also serves as Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member of WAKUWAKU Co., Ltd. since September 2022 and AEON Fantasy Co., Ltd. since May 2022. She began her career at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto in September 2008, providing counsel mainly in M&A, corporate restructuring and corporate legal affairs for clients in Japan and overseas.

Shion is an attorney-at-law in Japan and the US. She received her LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 2013. She graduated from Faculty of Law, Keio University, in 2007.   

Mika Kawasaki assumed the position of Standing Corporate Auditor in 2021. Prior to joining the Company, she served as corporate auditor of Bank of Japan, KPMG AZSA LLC, KPMG Tax Corporation, and startups, and engaged in establishing and strengthening corporate governance systems, including statutory audits and advisory services for implementing J-SOX.
Mika is a Certified Public Accountant in Japan and U.S.

KAWS is a world-renowned contemporary artist. He engages audiences beyond the museums and galleries in which he regularly exhibits. His prolific body of work straddles the worlds of art and design to include paintings, murals, graphic and product design, street art, and large-scale sculptures. Over the last two decades KAWS has built a successful career with work that consistently shows his formal agility as an artist, as well as his underlying wit, irreverence, and affection for our times. His refined graphic language revitalizes figuration with both big, bold gestures and playful intricacies.