Yasuchika hasegawa biography

Yasuchika Hasegawa has been with the Takeda Pharmaceutical company since 1970, including three years in Germany and ten years in the United States.
職歴: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd · 場所: 日本。10億人のメンバーを擁するプロフェッショナル.
Yasuchika was born in Nagato in June 1946.

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Yasuchika Hasegawa

Honorary Chairman, Asia Pacific Group, The Trilateral Commission; former Chairman, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; former Chairman, Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), Tokyo

Yasuchika Hasegawa has been with the Takeda Pharmaceutical company since 1970, including three years in Germany and ten years in the United States as Vice President and then President of TAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Chicago. He joined Takeda’s Board of Directors in 1999, became President in 2003, Chief Executive Officer in 2009, Chairman in 2014, and Corporate Counselor in 2017. Mr. Hasegawa was also Chairman of the Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) from 2011 to April 2015, and a member of the Abe government’s Industrial Competitiveness Council since 2013. He graduated from Waseda University.

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Takeda Announces Appointment of Christophe Weber as Chief Executive Officer

Osaka, Japan, March 4, 2015 -- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today announced that its Board of Directors decided to promote Christophe Weber, Representative Director, President & Chief Operating Officer (COO), to Representative Director, President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective April 1, 2015. Yasuchika Hasegawa, Representative Director, Chairman of the Board & CEO, will assume the position of Representative Director, Chairman of the Board.

The appointment is the result of a transparent and objective decision-making process endorsed by the Nomination Committee, which has been established as an advisory body to the Board of Directors and whose chairperson is an Outside Director. It has been also decided that the position of COO will no longer exist effective April 1, 2015.

Christophe Weber, the Representative Director, President & COO, said “First, I would like to thank Yasuchika Hasega

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