Representative Director, Chairman, President and CEO

Hiroshi Mikitani

Hiroshi Mikitani

Date of Birth: March 11, 1965

Representative Director, Chairman, President and CEO

April 1988
Joined the Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited (currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)

May 1993
Received MBA from Harvard Business School

February 1996
President & Representative Director (currently Representative Partner) of Crimson Group, Inc. (currently Crimson Group, LLC.) (current position)

February 1997
Founder & President & Representative Director of the Company

February 2001
Chairman, President, & Representative Director of the Company (current position)

March 2004
Chief Executive Officer of the Company (current position)

April 2006
Chairman & Representative Director of Crimson Football Club, Inc. (currently Rakuten Vissel Kobe, Inc.) (current position)

February 2010
Representative Director of Japan e-business Association (currently Japan Association of New Economy) (current position)

October 2011
Chairman of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (current position)

August 2012
Chairman & Representative Director & team owner of Rakuten Baseball, Inc. (current position)

July 2016
Group President of Group Company Division of the Company (current position)

July 2017
Chairman & Representative Director of Rakuten Aspyrian Japan K.K. (currently Rakuten Medical K.K.) (current position)

February 2020
Director of AST & Science, LLC (current position)

March 2022
Representative Director & Chairman of Rakuten Mobile, Inc. (current position)

April 2022
Vice Chairman of the Board & CEO of Rakuten Medical, Inc. (current position)

August 2023
Representative Director, Chairman and CEO of Rakuten Symphony, Inc. (current position)