Koichiro Naganuma

Executive Director and Chairman of the Board, Asatsu-DK Inc. as of the time of donation.

Mr. Naganuma was born in Tokyo in 1945.  He joined the predecessor company to Asatsu-DK Inc. in 1981.  He served as President of Asatsu-DK in 2001 and later as Chairman starting in 2010. He is Executive Director and Chairman of the Board (as of September, 2011)

Mr. Naganuma also served as a Vice President of Japan Advertising Agencies Association, President of Japan Advertising Agencies Welfare Pension Fund, a Director of Advertising Council Japan, and a Director of the Japan Association for the Promotion of Creative Events.

In 2007, he received the 47th Yoshida Prize of the Japan Advertising Award series.

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