Hiroaki Sakashita
Current Senior Executive Vice President Hiroaki Sakashita has actually been designated as President & & Chief Executive Officer, in addition to a Representative Director, of category culture ClassNK, efficient today. He does well Koichi Fujiwara, that has actually been designated as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Current Senior Executive Vice Presidents Tetsuya Kinoshita, Junichiro Iida, as well asDr Toshiyuki Shigemi will certainly proceed in their existing duties on the group, signed up with by Hirofumi Takano as well as Taira Narisawa as Executive Vice President.
Michio Takagi will certainly stay as Executive Auditor.
Speaking on the event, Hiroaki Sakashita claimed: “The maritime industry is changing its shape to adapt to environmental responsibilities and the digital era. For the swift mitigation of the industry to the new stage, there will be an increasing need for the role of independent third-party organizations to assure the safety, environmental performance, and quality of new technologies or concepts. ClassNK, with its new executive team, will actively participate in new innovative initiatives to enhance its capability, and pave the way for the development of new technologies and propagation of their benefits throughout the industry.”
Hiroaki Sakashita holds a bachelor’s level in Naval Architecture as well as Ocean Engineering, from Yokohama National University as well as began his job at Japan’s Ministry of Transport (currently Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport as well as Tourism) in 1980. During his job with the federal government, he played important duties in maritime management consisting of governing oversight as well as sector growth. He presumed the setting of Director-General of the Maritime Bureau in 2015, as well as Deputy Minister for Technical Affairs, Minister’s Secretariat in 2016.
He signed up with ClassNK as an Executive Consultant in 2018 as well as was designated to Senior Executive Vice President in 2019 to supervise ClassNK’s development of its organization profile as well as electronic makeover.
