Tier IV Management

Management criteria checks 0/4

We currently do not have sufficient information about the CEO.

Key information

Shinpei Kato

Chief executive officer

n/a

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	n/a
CEO tenure	no data
CEO ownership	7.9%
Management average tenure	no data
Board average tenure	1.2yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

CEO

Shinpei Kato (44 yo)

no data

Tenure

Mr. Shinpei Kato is Founder, CEO & Representative Director of Tier IV, Inc. and a co-founder of the Autoware Foundation. Mr. Kato was CTO of Tier IV, Inc. Mr. Kato is a global expert in computer science an...

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Shinpei Kato	Founder	no data	no data	7.87% ¥ 5.5b
Satoshi Sakaguchi	Executive Officer	no data	no data	no data
Tatsuo Kawasaki	Independent External Director	1.3yrs	no data	no data
Hiroaki Kitano	External Director	1.3yrs	no data	no data
Ryotaro Yamamoto	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member	1yr	no data	no data
Shiro Sakazaki	Full-Time Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member	no data	no data	no data
Makiko Nakamura	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member	1yr	no data	no data

1.2yrs

Average Tenure

51yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: 593A's board of directors are not considered experienced ( 1.2 years average tenure), which suggests a new board.

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/07/24 18:10
End of Day Share Price	2026/07/24 00:00
Earnings	2025/09/30
Annual Earnings	2025/09/30

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Tier IV, Inc. is covered by 0 analysts. 0 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.