KITZ appoint Makoto Kohno as President and Chief Executive Officer

KITZ Corporation announced that it has resolved for the changes in company’s Representative Directors at its Board of Directors’ meeting held on February 12, 2021. It will be formally decided at the 107th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on March 30, 2021 and at the subsequent Board of Directors’ meeting.
Reasons for the changes 
regard to further increase corporate value with strong will and execution power through the rejuvenation of top management in a business environment characterized by rapid changes in the global industrial structure. From March 30, 2021 Yasuyuki Hotta will be appont as Chairman (current position: President and Chief Executive Officer) and Makoto Kohno as President and Chief Executive Officer (current position: Director and Managing Executive Officer).
Makoto Kohno, graduated from Kokugakuin University, Department of Economics in 1988, joined KITZ
 in April 1988. Mr. Kohno previously served as general manager, international sales division of Flow Control Business Unit
, general manager, CEO & managing director of KITZ Corporation of Asia Pacific, managing director of KITZ Valve & Actuation Singapore. Mr. Kohno from 2019 was director, managing executive officer, general manager of Flow Control Business Unit.