Ajinomoto Management

Management criteria checks 2/4

Ajinomoto's CEO is Taro Fujie, appointed in Apr 2022, has a tenure of 2.42 years. total yearly compensation is ¥210.00M, comprised of 28.6% salary and 71.4% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.007% of the company’s shares, worth €1.27M. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 2.4 years and 2.3 years respectively.

Key information

Taro Fujie

Chief executive officer

JP¥210.0m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage28.6%
CEO tenure2.4yrs
CEO ownership0.007%
Management average tenure2.4yrs
Board average tenure2.3yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has Taro Fujie's remuneration changed compared to Ajinomoto's earnings?
DateTotal CompensationSalaryCompany Earnings
Jun 30 2024n/an/a

JP¥84b

Mar 31 2024JP¥210mJP¥60m

JP¥87b

Dec 31 2023n/an/a

JP¥95b

Sep 30 2023n/an/a

JP¥93b

Jun 30 2023n/an/a

JP¥94b

Mar 31 2023JP¥157mJP¥74m

JP¥94b

Compensation vs Market: Taro's total compensation ($USD1.49M) is below average for companies of similar size in the German market ($USD5.48M).

Compensation vs Earnings: Taro's compensation has increased by more than 20% whilst company earnings have fallen more than 20% in the past year.


CEO

Taro Fujie (63 yo)

2.4yrs

Tenure

JP¥210,000,000

Compensation

Mr. Taro Fujie serves as Representative Executive Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer at Ajinomoto Co., Inc. since April 2022 and serves as its Director since June 23, 2022. He served as a Corpo...


Leadership Team

NamePositionTenureCompensationOwnership
Taro Fujie
Representative Executive Officer2.4yrsJP¥210.00m0.0074%
€ 1.3m
Masami Kashiwakura
Executive Officer2.7yrsJP¥107.00m0.00089%
€ 153.0k
Hiroshi Shiragami
EVP, Representative Executive Officer3.7yrsJP¥119.00m0.0053%
€ 911.0k
Michael Lish
Executive Officer & Deputy GM of Bio & Fine Chemicals Division1.4yrsJP¥180.00mno data
Saburosuke Suzuki
Founderno datano datano data
Eiichi Mizutani
Executive Officer1.4yrsno data0.0011%
€ 190.8k
Masataka Kaji
General Manager of IR Group - Global Finance Departmentno datano datano data
Chika Morishima
Executive Officerno datano data0.0037%
€ 639.5k
Shino Kayahara
Executive Officer and In charge of Diversity & HR1.4yrsno data0.00030%
€ 51.6k
Takayuki Koda
Executive Officer3.4yrsno data0.0050%
€ 861.2k
Junichiro Kojima
Executive Officer2.7yrsno data0.0075%
€ 1.3m
Yoshiteru Masai
Executive Officer2.4yrsno data0.0029%
€ 507.1k

2.4yrs

Average Tenure

60.5yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: AJI0's management team is considered experienced (2.4 years average tenure).


Board Members

NamePositionTenureCompensationOwnership
Taro Fujie
Representative Executive Officer2.3yrsJP¥210.00m0.0074%
€ 1.3m
Hiroshi Shiragami
EVP, Representative Executive Officer2.3yrsJP¥119.00m0.0053%
€ 911.0k
Tatsuya Sasaki
Executive Officer2.3yrsno data0.0027%
€ 455.5k
Takeshi Saito
Executive Officer1.3yrsno data0.0016%
€ 268.2k
Scott Davis
Outside Independent Director1.3yrsno datano data
Kimie Iwata
Independent Outside Chair of the Board5.3yrsno data0.00040%
€ 68.8k
Joji Nakayama
Independent Outside Director3.3yrsno data0.00016%
€ 27.5k
Mami Indo
Independent Outside Director3.3yrsno data0.00026%
€ 44.7k
Yoko Hatta
Independent Outside Director5.3yrsno datano data
Takumi Matsuzawa
Director1.3yrsno data0.0046%
€ 782.1k
Yukako Wagatsuma
Independent Directorless than a yearno datano data

2.3yrs

Average Tenure

63yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: AJI0's board of directors are not considered experienced ( 2.3 years average tenure), which suggests a new board.