Board of Directors

Mr. Narushima is the founder of the Company (established in March 2003) and currently serves as our Representative Director, President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer.

From June 2023 to May 2024, he served as an Independent Outside Director of O-Well Corporation (“O-Well”).

Mr. Narushima obtained a diploma in information processing from the College of Computing, Kobe Institute of Computing in Kobe, Hyogo, in March 1985.

Mr. Shigeno currently serves as our Representative Director, Deputy President, and Chief Technology Officer. He is one of the founding employees of Micware. He has been primarily responsible for the technology of the entire Micware group.

Mr. Shigeno has also served as a Director at sdtech Inc., a Japanese software developer and software engineering and design solution service provider, since September 2021, where he is responsible for management.

Mr. Shigeno obtained a diploma in software from the College of Computing, Kobe Institute of Computing in Kobe, Hyogo, in March 1993.

Mr. Mori has been our Director and Chief Marketing Officer since May 2026. He also concurrently serves as a director at our five Japanese subsidiaries since April 2026. 

He started his career at Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TYO: 8015, “Toyota Tsusho”) in April 2000 and was a General Manager at its Advanced Mobility Services Division from April 2024 to March 2026. He also served as a Representative Director and Chief Executive Officer at NEXTY Electronics Corporation, a subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho and a trading company focusing on semiconductors, from April 2025 to June 2026. 

Mr. Mori obtained a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Kobe University in March 2000.

Mr. Kawabata has been our independent director since May 2020.

Before becoming our director, Mr. Kawabata spent 46 years working at Awaji Shinkin Bank, a cooperative financial institution headquartered in Sumoto City, Hyogo. From April 2014 to March 2019, he was a Director and General Manager at the bank.

Mr. Kawabata graduated from Hyogo Prefectural Sumoto Industrial Senior High School in Sumoto City, Hyogo in March 1970.

Ms. Sadoi has been our independent director since June 2023.

In April 1981, Ms. Sadoi started her career as a software developer at Fujitsu Limited (TYO: 6702, “Fujitsu”). From June 2015 to March 2021, Ms. Sadoi served as a Representative Director and President at Fujitsu Middleware Limited —a Japanese company focusing on the sales of middleware and system development and a subsidiary of Fujitsu—before it became a part of Fujitsu, its parent company, in October 2021. Ms. Sadoi has served as a president of Office muMore, where she provides consulting services regarding woman employees’ career development, since April 2021. She has also been an independent outside director at O-Well since July 2024.

Ms. Sadoi obtained a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tsuda University in Tokyo in March 1981.

Ms. Osumi has been our independent director since May 2025.

Ms. Osumi has approximately 24 years of experience in the automobile industry. She has been a Global Customer Manager at Bose Automotive G.K., where she is responsible for sales and customer management for automotive sound systems. From August 2014 to June 2021, she was a managing director at Desay SV Automative Japan Co., Ltd., a Japanese entity of Desay SV, a Chinese automative IVI system provider, where she served as a representative of such entity.

Ms. Osumi obtained a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tsuda University in Tokyo in March 1998.

Ms. Okada has been our independent director since May 2025.

She is a certified public accountant in Japan. Ms. Okada also has 19 years of experience serving as a Chief Financial Officer at Japanese technology companies, including Spectronix Corporation, an Osaka-based company which develops, manufactures, and sells short-wavelength and ultra-short pulsed laser oscillators, from September 2006 to June 2020, and Vitaars Inc. (formerly known as T-ICU Co., Ltd.), a remote emergency and intensive care service system provider, from February 2021 to July 2025. While serving at Micware, Ms. Okada has been an outside corporate auditor at Arcadia Inc., an internet service provider, since June 2025.

Ms. Okada obtained an associate degree in American and English Studies from Kansai Gaidai Junior College in Hirakata, Osaka, in March 1992, a Bachelor of Arts in Industry and Technology from the Open University of Japan in March 2012, and a master’s degree in business administration from Kobe University in March 2022.

Mr. Rudzinski has been our independent director since September 2023.

Before serving at Micware, Mr. Rudzinski was a President of the Board of Directors of FQS Poland Limited (“FQS”), a Poland-based software developer which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, from January 1998 to June 2023, where he oversaw sales and business development. He has served as an advisor to the FQS’s board of directors since July 2023. Mr. Rudzinski was also a supervisory board member of Makolab SA (WSE: MLB), an IT solution and services provider and software developer, since March 2008. From April 2017 to March 2020, Mr. Rudzinski served as a member of the board of directors of Fujitsu Greenhouse Technology Finland, a joint venture between Fujitsu and Finland’s Robbe’s Little Garden operating an automated vegetable growing factory, where he was responsible for managing the company.

Mr. Rudzinski obtained a Master of Science in Chemistry from University of Wroclaw, Poland, in September 1982, and a Doctor of Science in Computational Chemistry from Hokkaido University in March 1990.