Yasunori Ogawa (left), Chairman and Director, Seiko Epson Corporation and Junkichi Yoshida (right), President and Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer, Seiko Epson Corporation.
Epson announced that a meeting of its board of directors had approved a change of representative director and the appointment of a new president, effective April 1, 2025.
Details of change
| Name | New position | Previous position |
| Yasunori Ogawa | Chairman and Director | President and Representative Director
Chief Executive Officer |
| Junkichi Yoshida | President and Representative Director
Chief Executive Officer |
Director, Executive Officer
Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division |
Brief career history of new president
| Name | Junkichi Yoshida | |
| Date of birth | September 27, 1964 | |
| Place of birth | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Education | Faculty of Economics, Keio University | |
| Brief career history | April 1988 | Joined Seiko Epson Corporation |
| April 2012 | Appointed General Manager, Printer Strategic Planning Department | |
| April 2019 | Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, DX Division | |
| June 2020 | Appointed Executive Officer (current position) | |
| October 2020 | Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Operations Division | |
| April 2021 | Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division (current position) | |
| June 2024 | Appointed Director (current position) | |
| April 2025 | To be appointed President and Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer | |
| Number of Epson shares held | 14,500 (as of December 31, 2024) | |
Reasons for change
Epson aspires to achieving sustainability and enriching communities as part of its Epson 25 Renewed corporate vision. Accordingly, its businesses are focused on solving societal issues through a philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation.
The 2025 fiscal year is the final year of Epson 25 Renewed. It is also a year during which Epson will finish formulating its next strategic corporate vision for driving future growth.
It is important for the company to steadily execute its plans for the next generation and rapidly develop pioneering products and the technologies that support them in both growth and new areas.
This transition in leadership, which was deliberated by the Director Nomination Committee and resolved by the Board of Directors, is thus intended to accelerate the construction of a solid management foundation aimed at enhancing corporate value, under a new management team that will be responsible for everything from formulating the next corporate vision to executing the strategies therein.
Date of appointment
April 1, 2025
