Board Members
President Yukio Sakamoto
- April 1993
- Vice President, Texas Instruments Japan, Ltd.
- January 1998
- General Manager, Semiconductor Department, Electronics & Information Division, Kobe Steel, Ltd.
- March 2000
- President and Representative Director, Nippon Foundry, Inc. (Current UMC JAPAN)
- November 2002
- President, Representative Director and Chief Executive Officer, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- July 2006
- Director, Akita Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- January 2007
- President, Representative Director, Hiroshima Elpida Memory, Inc.
- May 2007
- Director, Rexchip Electronics Corporation(Present position)
Director Shuichi Otsuka
- April 2001
- System Device Company President, Sony Corp.
- November 2002
- Executive Officer, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- March 2004
- Director, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- November 2004
- President, Representative Director, Hiroshima Elpida Memory, Inc.
- May 2007
- Director, Rexchip Electronics Corporation
- November 2009
- President, Representative Director, Akita Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
Director Takao Adachi
- April 2000
- Project Manager, Technical Marketing & Development Department, 1st LSI Memory Division, LSI Memory Operations Unit, NEC Corporation
- October 2000
- Project Manager, 3rd SDRAM Project, 1st Design Division, Elpida Memory, Inc.
- April 2005
- Executive Officer, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- June 2006
- Director, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- May 2007
- Director, Rexchip Electronics Corporation
Director Hideki Gomi
- December 1990
- Engineering Manager, Thin Film Process Development Laboratory, ULSI Device Development Laboratories NEC Corporation
- April 2000
- Project Manager, Process Development Department, Development Division, Elpida Memory, Inc.
- October 2003
- Executive Manager, Advanced Process Development Group, Technology & Development Office, Elpida Memory, Inc.
- August 2006
- Executive Officer, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- January 2008
- Director, Plant Manager, Hiroshima Elpida Memory, Inc.
- June 2008
- Director, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- March 2010
- Director, Rexchip Electronics Corporation (Present position)
Director Yasuo Shirai
- February 1988
- Controller, ASP division & Hatogaya Plant, Texas Instruments Japan, Ltd.
- April 1995
- Senior Finance Analyst, Texas Instruments, Inc.
- October 1998
- Director of Financial Department, Texas Instruments Japan, Ltd.
- August 2009
- Executive Officer, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
- October 2009
- Director, Rexchip Electronics Corporation (Present position)
- June 2010
- Director, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
Director Tsay-Jiu Brian Shieh
- October 1985
- Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
- September 1989
- Consultant, Texas Instruments Incorporated
- September 1990
- Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
- August 1994
- Director, NSF Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center at University of Texas at Arlington
- September 2001
- Director, Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (Current Powerchip Technology Corporation) (Present position)
- June 2002
- Director, Powertech Technology Inc. (Present position)
- January 2003
- President, Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation
- June 2007
- Director, Rexchip Electronics Corporation (Present position)
- January 2010
- Chairman, Rexchip Electronics Corporation (Present position)
- June 2010
- Director, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
Director Nobuyuki Wataki *
- April 1972
- Joined Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
- June 1989
- Executive Vice President, Nomura Securities International, Inc.
- January 1992
- General Manager, Products Development Group, NOMURA BABCOCK & BROWN CO., LTD.
- June 1996
- Director, NOMURA BABCOCK & BROWN CO., LTD.
- June 2003
- Senior Managing Director, NOMURA BABCOCK & BROWN CO., LTD.
- March 2006
- Management Executive, NOMURA BABCOCK & BROWN CO., LTD.
- June 2010
- Director, Elpida Memory, Inc. (Present position)
* Director Nobuyuki Wataki is an outside director as defined under the Japanese Corporate Law.
Executive Officers
Yukio Sakamoto
Chief Executive Officer
Shuichi Otsuka
Chief Operating Officer
Takao Adachi
Chief Technology Officer
New Technology
Hideki Gomi
Chief Technology Officer
DRAM Technology
Yasuo Shirai
Chief Financial Officer
Takehiro Fukuda
Finance & Accounting Office
Toshiaki Hagiwara
Chief Administrative Officer
Oliver Chang
Chief Sales Officer
Akira Tsujimoto
Chief Quality Assurance Officer
Yasushi Takahashi
Sever & PC Division
Yoshitaka Kinoshita
Mobile & Digital Consumer Division
Hiroaki Akiyama
Hiroshima Plant Manager
Carla Maria Golla
Elpida Memory (Italy) S.r.l.
Corporate Auditors
Corporate Auditor Toshimasa Ota
- Toshimasa Ota became a Corporate Auditor at Elpida in June 2007. He was acting-Executive Manager of the Legal Group from April 2003 to May 2007 and Executive Manager of the IP & Legal Department from April 2006 to May 2007. Since May 2007 he has also been a Corporate Auditor at Tera Probe, Inc.
Corporate Auditor Toshio Nohara
- Toshio Nohara became a Corporate Auditor at Elpida and Akita Elpida Memory in June 2010. Mr. Nohara was formerly a Director of Elpida from April 2003 to June 2010.
Corporate Auditor Katsumi Sakurai **
- Katsumi Sakurai became a Corporate Auditor in June 2007. He was formerly president of Ibaraki Hitachi Information Service Co., Ltd. from May 2003 to May 2005.
Corporate Auditor Masamitsu Nakayama **
- Masamitsu Nakayama became a Corporate Auditor in June 2009.
He was formerly Director, Chairman of Audit Committee of Japan Servo Co., Ltd.
** Corporate Auditors (Elpida statutory auditors) Katsumi Sakurai and Masamitsu Nakayama are outside auditors as defined in the Companies Act under Japanese Corporate Law.