アジアで影響力のあるビジネスウーマン 2021(Forbes)

襟川恵子は、夫の陽一と共に光栄(現コーエーテクモゲームス)を創業。それから40年の間で、同社を日本最大級のゲーム開発企業に育て上げた。
今年6月には、ソフトバンクグループで唯一の女性社外取締役に就任。
日本、香港、米国にコーエーテクモが保有する11億ドル(約1250億円)の資産を管理している。
 
 
端羽英子は、2001年に東京大学経済学部を卒業後、ゴールドマン・サックスに入社し、投資銀行業務を担当。しかしわずか1年後、23歳で子育てのために退職した。ストレスが多く、長時間労働の投資銀行業務と子育ての両立は無理だと感じたからだった。
2012年にビザスクを設立。同社は世界一の「ナレッジプラットフォーム」を目指し、企業と独立アドバイザーのマッチングサービスを提供している。利用者は、1時間の相談から大規模プロジェクトのコンサルティングまで、幅広い依頼できる。
 
小谷高代は今年6月、母・眞由美の後を継ぎ、ロボットメーカーであるユーシン精機の代表取締役社長に就任した。母は創業者の夫・進の逝去により、2002年に経営を引き継いでいた(現在は同社の名誉会長を務めている)。
小谷の経歴はロボットメーカーの社長にふさわしく、京都大学で工学の博士号、マサチューセッツ工科大学でMBAを取得。日立製作所と米コンサルタント会社を経て、2008年にユーシン精機へ入社し、社長に就任するまで研究開発部門を率いた。

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  1. shinichi Post author

    アジアで影響力のあるビジネスウーマン20人 日本から3人選出

    Forbes Press Releases (編集=遠藤宗生)

    https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/44241

    フォーブスは今月、アジア太平洋地域で影響力のあるビジネスウーマン20人のリストを発表した。日本からはコーエーテクモホールディングスの襟川恵子会長、ビザスクの端羽英子最高経営責任者(CEO)、ユーシン精機の小谷高代社長の3人が選出された。

    2021年版リストを担当した編集者のラナ・ウェフベ・ワトソンは、「アジア太平洋地域各地のビジネスウーマンは自分たちの障害となる壁を壊し続け、多くの場合、新型コロナウイルス流行が長引く中でも自社の事業を拡大している。フォーブス・アジアが今年まとめた影響力のあるビジネスウーマンのリストでは、テクノロジー、医療、金融、製造などさまざまな産業で適応と繁栄に成功した20人の傑出したリーダーが選ばれた。彼女たちは、コロナ後の現実と格闘する世界をリードする存在だ」とコメントしている。

    リストには、大きな収益を上げている企業や、評価額が1億ドル(約110億円)以上のスタートアップの経営で成果を上げたリーダーが選ばれた。今年の20人は、全員が初めてリスト入りした。

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  2. shinichi Post author

    Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2021

    Forbes

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/ranawehbe/2021/11/01/asias-power-businesswomen-2021/?sh=4a8eca1b7c29
     


     

    KEIKO ERIKAWA

    Executive chairman, Koei Tecmo
    Age: 72 • Japan

    Erikawa and her husband Yoichi, who is CEO, founded Koei Tecmo and built it into one of Japan’s largest video-game developers over four decades. The listed company now has a market capitalization of $8.5 billion. Koei Tecmo has reported 11 straight years of record net profit, with earnings of $262 million on sales of $534 million for the fiscal year ended in March. Its operating profit margin of 40% beats rivals such as Electronic Arts (19%) and Nintendo (36%). Over the next three years, the firm is targeting $796 million in revenue and $266 million in operating profit by continuing to develop new console and mobile games and by collaborating with other firms.

    Koei Tecmo has been licensing its intellectual property since 2017, which is becoming a bigger part of its business. For example, China’s Lingxi Interactive, a gaming company that is part of Alibaba, developed a hit mobile game based on Koei Tecmo’s bestselling Romance of the Three Kingdoms franchise. In June, Erikawa became an outside director—and the only woman on the board—of investment company SoftBank Group. She may be able to put her investment know-how to use there, as she manages Koei Tecmo’s $1.1 billion in assets across Japan, Hong Kong and the U.S.
     


     

    EIKO HASHIBA

    Founder and CEO, VisasQ
    Age: 43 • Japan

    In 2001, Hashiba, a fresh graduate armed with an economics degree from the University of Tokyo, landed a plum investment banking job at Goldman Sachs Japan. Yet only a year later, she left at age 23 to have a child. She decided to quit after realizing that she couldn’t juggle caring for a newborn with the demands of investment banking, with its stresses and long hours. The upheaval left her wondering: Why should a common life event mean putting one’s career on hold?

    That work-life balance question factored in her 2012 founding of VisasQ, which dubs itself a global “professional knowledge sharing platform” that matches up independent experts for temporary assignments with companies—ranging from a single hour of advice to consulting for a major project. “Being able to continue working regardless of a person’s stage in life was the driving force in VisasQ’s vision of connecting knowledge, by going beyond organizations, generations and geography,” Hashiba says by email.

    Hashiba became a U.S. certified public accountant and in 2003 joined L’Oréal as a controller in Tokyo. Hashiba then got an M.B.A. from MIT. From 2007, she worked at Japanese buyout firm Unison Capital until starting VisasQ. Listing in 2020 in Tokyo, VisasQ’s share price has quadrupled, giving it a $471 million market capitalization—and Hashiba’s stake is reportedly worth over $240 million. In August, VisasQ announced it would acquire U.S.-based expert network firm Coleman Research Group. The $102 million deal, expected to close in November, will triple triple VisaQ’s transaction volume to almost ¥9 billion, and potentially add over 260,000 experts in 190 countries to its network. “Being a woman doesn’t mean that there’s a limit to your abilities,” Hashiba says. “It’s nothing more than a label.”
     


     

    TAKAYO KOTANI

    President, Yushin Precision Equipment
    Age: 44 • Japan

    It’s rare to find a female chief executive in Japan, rarer still for her to be leading a company in the manufacturing industry, and most likely unique that she has taken over the role formerly held by her mother. Such is the case with Kotani, who became president in June of robot maker Yushin Precision Equipment. She took the reins from her mother Mayumi, who had run the firm since 2002 after the death of her husband, Susumu, who founded the company. (Mayumi is now honorary chairman.)

    Kotani appears well qualified for the job, holding a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University and an M.B.A. from MIT. After stints at Hitachi and a consultancy, she joined Yushin in 2008, and had led the R&D department until her promotion to the top job. “I am used to being a minority,” Kotani says, noting she was one of only five women in a class of 85 engineering graduate students. “Because it’s rare, it’s very easy to be remembered,” she says.

    The Kotani family controls a nearly 50% stake in the listed company. In the most recent fiscal year through March, Yushin posted about $170 million in revenue and an operating profit margin of nearly 14%. Despite a pandemic hit to revenue of almost 8%, net profit jumped nearly 20% to $16 million from a year ago on cost cutting and sales of higher margin robots. It’s expanding its lineup too, such as robots designed to be used in distribution centers.

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