Press Releases

2011

April 28, 2011

Kurita Water Industries Announces Company President Changeover

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President: Hiroshi Saito) announces that its board of directors met on April 28, 2011, informally approved the appointment of a new company president.
The associated changes in personnel appointments are expected to be formalized at the 75th annual meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 29, 2011, and the subsequent board meeting.

1. Personnel changes

Name New position Current position
Toshiyuki Nakai President and Representative Director of Kurita Water Industries Ltd. President and Representative Director of Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.
Hiroshi Saito Advisor to Kurita Water Industries Ltd. President and Representative Director of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.

2. Scheduled date of appointment

June 29, 2011

Supplementary Materials

1. Reason for company president changeover

To fulfill its corporate vision of becoming an advanced water and environmental management company, Kurita is currently working to expand its global operations and evolve its service businesses, two objectives of its current medium-term management plan, MP-11. Amid tumultuous change in the business environment in Japan and overseas, the new leadership structure will enable Kurita to further accelerate these efforts and develop its business with renewed energy.

2. Incoming president's career summary

Name Toshiyuki Nakai
Place of birth Mie prefecture
Date of birth August 1, 1954
Date recruited by Kurita April 1, 1979
Education Graduated from the Waseda University School of Law, March 1979
Employment history
  April 1979
Joined Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
September 2001
President, Kuritec Singapore Pte. Ltd.
June 2003
General Manager of Corporate Planning Department,
Corporate Planning Division, Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
June 2005
Director
General Manager of Corporate Planning Department,
Corporate Planning Division, Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
April 2006
Director
General Manager of Corporate Planning Division
June 2007
Director
General Manager of Sales Division II, Facilities Division
June 2009 - present
Resigned from Kurita Water Industries Ltd. and became
President and Representative Director of Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.