Notification of PwC Japan's new group executive structure

1 July 2020
PwC Japan Group

Tokyo, 1 July 2020 - PwC Japan Group (Group Chairman and Territory Senior Partner : Koichiro Kimura) announced today its new executive structure effective 1 July 2020.

Koichiro Kimura will continue to serve as Group Chairman and Territory Senior Partner. In addition, persons in charge of supervising respective fields of services, and new representatives of 4 firms have been appointed. Takaaki Ino was appointed as CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC, Nobuaki Otake was appointed as CEO of PwC Consulting LLC, Jun Takashima was appointed as Representative of PwC Tax Japan, and Michito Kitamura was appointed as Representative of PwC Legal Japan.

Details are as follows:

PwC Japan Group executive team

Note: The positions in parentheses are the posts held by each person in their firm.

PwC Japan Group Chairman and Territory Senior Partner

Koichiro Kimura
(PwC Japan LLC, Chief Executive Officer)

Group Managing Partner
(Strategy, Markets)

Akira Kashima
(PwC Japan LLC, Deputy Chief Executive Officer / PwC Consulting LLC, Chairman)

Group Managing Partner
(Operations)

Takashi Idesawa
(PwC Japan LLC, Deputy Chief Executive Officer / PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC, Executive Officer)

Assurance

Takaaki Ino
(PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC, Chief Executive Officer)

Masataka Kubota
(PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC, Deputy Chief Executive Officer)

Yukihiro Matsunaga
(PricewaterhouseCoopers Kyoto, Managing Partner)

Consulting

Nobuaki Otake
(PwC Consulting LLC, Chief Executive Officer)

Deal Advisory

Akane Yoshida
(PwC Advisory LLC, Chief Executive Officer)

Tax

Jun Takashima
(PwC Tax Japan, Representative)

Legal

Michito Kitamura
(PwC Legal Japan, Representative)

Group Markets Leader

Yukinori Morishita
(PwC Japan LLC, Executive Officer)

Global JBN Leader *

Susumu Adachi
(PwC Japan LLC, Executive Officer / PwC Consulting LLC, Deputy Chairman)

*JBN=Japanese Business Network
(Global network to support overseas business expansion of Japanese companies)

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About PwC Japan Group

PwC Japan Group represents the member firms of the PwC global network in Japan and their subsidiaries. Each firm of PwC Japan Group undertakes its business as an independent and separate corporate entity.

To address complex and diversified business challenges, PwC Japan Group consolidates expertise of assurance, deal advisory, consulting, tax and legal services as well as enhances its structure in order to cooperate organically. As a professional service network with a total number of more than 8,100 partners and staff, PwC Japan Group provides quality client services to meet their needs and expectations.

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