[Corporate Announcement]LINE Appoints External Board Member

2016.03.01 Corporate

Tokyo, Japan – March 1, 2016 – LINE Corporation today announced that Rehito Hatoyama has been appointed as an external board member. The decision was approved at an ordinary board of director’s meeting on February 23, 2016 and a special shareholders’ meeting on March 1, 2016. Hatoyama assumes his new role starting today.

 

1. New External Board Member (as of March 1, 2016)

External Board Member: Rehito Hatoyama

 

2. Profile of the New External Board Member

 Month/Year

Profile

 April 1997   

Joined Mitsubishi Corporation
 May 2008

Joined Sanrio Company, Ltd.

 June 2008

Received Master’s from Harvard Business School

 June 2010

Appointed as General Manager at Sanrio Company, Ltd. 

 April 2013

Appointed as Managing Director at Sanrio Company, Ltd. (Current Position)

 June 2013

Appointed as Outside Director at DeNA Co., Ltd. (Current Position)

 June 2015

Appointed as CEO at Sanrio Media & Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (Current Position)

 

 

3. Board Structure After New Appointment (Board Members)

Representative Director and CEO       

Takeshi Idezawa

Board Member

Jun Masuda

Board Member

Joongho Shin

Board Member

In-joon Hwang

Board Member (Part-time)

Hae-jin Lee

Board Member (External)

Tadashi Kunihiro

Board Member (External)

Koji Kotaka

Board Member (External)

Rehito Hatoyama