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Epson announced that a meeting of its board of directors had approved a change of
representative director and the appointment of a new president, effective April 1, 2025.
Details of change
Name:Yasunori Ogawa
New Position: Chairman and Director
Previous position: President and Representative Director/Chief Executive Director
Name: Junkichi Yoshida
New position: President and Representative Director/Chief Executive Officer
Previous position: Director, Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solution Division
Brief career history of new president
Name Junkichi Yoshida
Date of birth September 27, 1964
Place of birth Tokyo, Japan
Education Faculty of Economics, Keio University
Brief career history:
April 1988 Joined Seiko Epson Corporation
April 2012 Appointed General Manager, Printer Strategic Planning Department
April 2019 Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, DX Division
June 2020 Appointed Executive Officer (current position)
October 2020 Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Operations Division
April 2021 Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions
June 2024 Appointed Director (current position)
April 2025 To be appointed President and Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer
Number of Epson shares held:
14,500 (as of December 31, 2024)
Reasons for change
Epson aspires to achieving sustainability and enriching communities as part of its Epson 25 Renewed corporate vision. Accordingly, its businesses are focused on solving societal issues through a philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation.
The 2025 fiscal year is the final year of Epson 25 Renewed. It is also a year during which Epson will finish formulating its next strategic corporate vision for driving future growth. It is important for the company to steadily execute its plans for the next generation and rapidly develop pioneering products and the technologies that support them in both growth and new areas.
This transition in leadership, which was deliberated by the Director Nomination Committee and resolved by the Board of Directors, is thus intended to accelerate the construction of a solid management foundation aimed at enhancing corporate value, under a new management team that will be responsible for everything from formulating the next corporate vision to executing the strategies therein.
Date of appointment
April 1, 2025
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader whose philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson’s goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050. Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of more than JPY 1 trillion. Visit corporate.epson/en/ for more information.
About Epson Philippines
Epson’s corporate presence in the Philippines commenced in 1998. It grew rapidly into a billion-peso company in a span of a few years from its establishment due to its client-oriented approach in its business management by its dedicated and innovative staff members and officers. Epson Philippines has an extensive network of 77 Authorized Service Centers nationwide with more than 200 dealers and more than 800 stores across the country. For more details, please visit our website (www.epson.com.ph), our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/EpsonPhilippines), or LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/epson-philippines-corporation/)
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