Mr Fujimoto was appointed a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 April 2025. Mr Fujimoto graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.
Mr Fujimoto has over 35 years of working experience within the Panasonic Organization. Upon his graduation in 1988, he joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd (now known as Panasonic Holding Corporation, Japan (“PC”)) in the Global Business Marketing Group and rose to the position of Senior Manager in April 2004 in charge of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company. In April 2011, he was promoted to Associate Director to oversee the Vacuum Cleaner Business, Laundry Systems and Vacuum Cleaner Business Unit, Home Appliances Company, Panasonic Corporation.
He was made Managing Officer of the Living Appliances and Solutions Company, Panasonic Corporation (Director, Laundry Systems, and Vacuum Cleaner Business Division) in October 2021 and in April 2025 his portfolio in Living Appliances and Solutions Company was expanded and he now takes charge of Corporate Planning, Laundry Systems and Vacuum Cleaner Business, Asian Multi-Products Manufacturing Company, Refrigeration Devices Business).
He is a Board representative of Panasonic Holdings Corporation (“PHD”), a major shareholder of the Company, which presents a conflict of interest in view of the recurrent related party transactions between PHD Group and the Company where he is involved in management decision making of contracts with PHD Group. The Company has and will continue to address this conflict of interest situation by seeking the approval of the shareholders to enter into the recurrent related party transactions with PHD Group and Mr Fujimoto will abstain from all Board deliberations and voting on matters related to this.