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  • Trade name AXELL CORPORATION
    Address 10F, Akihabara UDX South Wing, 4-14-1 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8973, Japan
    Business Activities

    ・Design, manufacture and sales of semiconductor ICs and printed circuit boards with embedded semiconductor ICs

    ・Research, development, and sales of elemental technologies relating to graphics, sound, machine learning, etc.;

    ・Research, development, and sales of elemental technologies relating to information securities;

    ・Research, development, and sales of elemental technologies relating to blockchain;

    ・Various informational services using the Internet;

    ・Development and sales of software

    ・Design, manufacture, and sales of applied equipment relating to any of the foregoing;

    ・Secondhand Articles trading business; and

    ・All businesses incidental to any of the foregoing.
    Established February 1996
    Capital 1,028 million yen
    Group Companies ax Inc.
    aimRage Inc.
    Banks Iidabashi Branch, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
    Iidabashi Branch, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
    Headquarters, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
    Main customers Midoriya Electric Co., Ltd.
    Okaya Electronics Corp.
    Shinko Shoji Co.,Ltd.
    ADT Co.,Ltd.

  • Directors

    Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Independent Outside Director)

  • 1996 February Established Axell Corporation (principal place of business: Nakano-ku, Tokyo) aiming at the development and sales of high performance semiconductor products
    April Developed application specific integrated circuit (hereinafter referred to as "ASIC") products for pachinko and pachislot machines
    1998 January Entered business collaboration agreement with Internix Incorporated as a distributor
    April Entered business collaboration agreement with Midoriya Electric Co., Ltd. as a distributor
    July Launched application specific standard product (hereinafter referred to as "ASSP"): "AG1" series for pachinko and pachislot machines
    1999 September Launched ASSP product: "AS1" series for pachinko and pachislot machines
    2001 January Moved principal place of business to Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
    May Entered business collaboration agreement with Okaya Electronics Corp. as a distributor
    2002 June Launched ASSP product: "AG2" series for pachinko and pachislot machines
    December Listed as OTC shares with Japan Securities Dealers Association (reorganized as Jasdaq Securities Exchanges, Inc. in December 2004)
    2003 March Launched ASSP product: "AG901" for embedded systems market
    2004 August Launched ASSP product: "AG902" for embedded systems market
    September Launched ASSP product: "AS201" for pachinko and pachislot machines
    2005 July Obtained "ISO9001:2000" certification from Japan Quality Assurance Organization (JQA)
    2006 May Moved principal place of business to Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
    November November　Launched ASSP product: "AG301" for pachinko and pachislot
    2007 April Launched ASSP product: "AL1" series for pachinko and pachislot
    July Launched ASSP product: "AS301" for pachinko and pachislot
    2008 June Launched ASSP product: "AG333" for pachinko and pachislot
    November Listing on Second Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange
    2009 October Launched ASSP product: "AG10" for embedded systems market
    2010 March Listing on First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.

  • Location

    Akihabara UDX SouthWing 10F 4-14-1 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8973

    Access

    2minute walk from Akihabara Station, JR Sobu Line
    3minute walk from Suehirocho Station, Ginza Subway Line
    4minute walk from Akihabara Station, Hibiya Subway Lines
    3minute walk from Akihabara Station, TSUKUBA EXPRESS

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Chairman

Kazunori Matsuura

Date of Birth: January 25, 1970

  • April 1994
    Joined Nippon Steel Corp. (current NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION)
  • April 1998
    Joined the Company
  • April 2004
    Appointed to Senior Manager of Engineering Department of the Company
  • June 2006
    Appointed to Director & Assistant General Manager of Engineering Department of the Company
  • June 2010
    Appointed to Director & General Manager of Engineering Department of the Company
  • June 2012
    Appointed to President & Representative Director of the Company
  • June 2014
    Visiting Professor of University of Tsukuba (to present)
  • June 2022
    Appointed to Chairman & Representative Director of the Company (to present)

President & Representative Director

Akihiro Saito

Date of Birth: August 4, 1966

  • April 1989
    Joined Nippon Steel Corp. (current NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION)
  • January 2002
    Joined the Company
  • April 2004
    Appointed to Senior Manager of Sales & Marketing Department of the Company
  • June 2006
    Appointed to Director & Assistant General Manager of Sales & Marketing Department of the Company
  • June 2010
    Appointed to Director & General Manager of Sales & Marketing Department of the Company
  • June 2012
    Executive Vice President & Representative Director, General Manager of Sales & Marketing Department of the Company
  • June 2018
    Executive Vice President & Representative Director, Supervising Sale & Marketing Department and Management Department of the Company
  • May 2019
    Appointed to Director of ax Inc.(to present)
  • April 2020
    Appointed to Vice President & Representative Director of the Company
  • June 2022
    Appointed to President & Representative Director of the Company (to present)

Director General Manager of Strategic Planning Section

Kazuki Kyakuno

Date of Birth: December 12, 1983

  • April 2006
    Joined the Company
  • March 2011
    Completed Doctoral Program of Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering of University of Tsukuba (Ph.D. in Engineering)
  • April 2013
    Appointed to Senior Manager of Engineering Department of the Company
  • April 2014
    Visiting Associate Professor of University of Tsukuba (to present)
  • June 2018
    Appointed to Director & General Manager of Strategic Planning Section, Team Leader of Algorithm Team of Engineering Department of the Company
  • July 2018
    Appointed to Director of VIPPOOL Inc. (to present)
  • April 2019
    Appointed to Director Supervising Algorithm Team of Engineering Department & General Manager of Strategic Planning Section of the Company
  • May 2019
    Appointed to Director of ax Inc.
  • August 2019
    Appointed to Director of MotionPortrait, Inc.
  • April 2022
    Appointed to Director Supervising Algorithm Team of Engineering Department & General Manager of Business Development Division of the Company
  • June 2022
    Appointed to Managing Director Supervising Algorithm Team of Engineering Department & General Manager of Business Development Division of the Company
  • June 2024
    Appointed to Managing Director & CTO, Supervising　Algorithm Team of Engineering Department of the Company(to present)
  • April 2025
    Appointed to President & Representative Director of ax Inc.(to present)

Sales & Marketing Department
General Manager

Takaomi Kishimoto

Date of Birth: Feb. 24, 1973

  • April 1995
    Joined TAKACHIHO KOHEKI CO., LTD.
  • November 1999
    Joined MegaChips Corporation
  • October 2006
    Joined the Company
  • April 2015
    Appointed to Senior Manager of Sales & Marketing Department of the Company
  • June 2018
    Appointed to Executive Officer & General Manager of Sales & Marketing Department of the Company
  • November 2020
    Appointed to President & Representative Director of aimRage Inc. (to present)
  • June 2022
    Appointed to Director of General Manager of Sales & Marketing Department of the Company (to present)

Engineering Department
General Manager of

Atsushi Kikuchi

Atsushi Kikuchi

Date of Birth: May 24, 1977

  • November 2002
    Joined the Company
  • June 2012
    Appointed to Senior Manager of Engineering Department, Team Leader of LSI Team of the Company
  • June 2018
    Appointed to Executive Officer & Assistant General Manager of Engineering Department, Team Leader of LSI Team of the Company
  • April 2019
    Appointed to Executive Officer & General Manager of Engineering Department of the Company
  • June 2022
    Appointed to Director of General Manager of Engineering Department of the Company (to present)
  • April 2024
    Appointed to Director of aimRage Inc. (to present)

Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Independent Outside Director)

Teiichiro Nishizuka

Date of Birth: January 28, 1958

  • April 1982
    Joined NEC Corporation
  • January 2005
    Appointed to General Manager of System Memory Business Division of NEC Electronics Corporation
  • May 2007
    Appointed to General Manager of Advanced ASIC Business Division of NEC Electronics Corporation
  • July 2008
    Appointed to Senior Manager of Sales & Marketing Department of the Company
  • April 2010
    Appointed to General Manager of Imaging Device Business Division of Renesas Electronics Corporation
  • October 2011
    Appointed to General Manager of 2nd Industrial Network Business Division of Renesas Electronics Corporation
  • October 2012
    Retired from Renesas Electronics Corporation
  • April 2014
    Registered as a Small and Medium Enterprise Management Consultant
  • April 2017
    Joined Japan Science and Technology Agency
  • June 2018
    Appointed to Audit & Supervisory Committee Member of the Company (to present)
  • June 2019
    Appointed to Outside Director of the Company (Full-time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
  • Appointed to Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) of the Company (to present)

Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Independent Outside Director)

Katsuya Mitsumura

Date of Birth: June 18, 1951

  • April 1974
    Joined Showa Audit Corporation (current Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
  • March 1977
    Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
  • January 1982
    Established Katsuya Mitsumura C.P.A. and Tax Accountant Office (to present)
  • June 2008
    Appointed to Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company
  • June 2016
    Appointed to Audit & Supervisory Committee Member of the Company (to present)
  • October 2016
    Appointed to Outside Director of INABA SEISAKUSHO Co., Ltd. (to present)
  • December 2017
    Appointed to Outside Corporate Auditor of Mt. Fuji Springs Inc.
  • June 2018
    Appointed to Outside Director of the Company (Full-time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
  • July 2018
    Appointed to Outside Director of Mt. Fuji Springs, Inc.
  • June 2019
    Appointed to Audit & Supervisory Committee Member of the Company (to present)
  • June 2019
    Appointed to Audit & Supervisory Committee Member of FANUC CORPORATION
  • Appointed to Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) of FANUC CORPORATION

Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Independent Outside Director)

Masao Suzuki

Date of Birth: June 18, 1951

  • April 1975
    Joined Heiwa Sogo Bank, K.K. (current Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation)
  • November 1981
    Joined Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.
  • November 1993
    Joined Goldman Sachs (Japan) Ltd. Appointed to Vice president of Corporate Dept. of Investment Banking Division
  • February 2000
    Established Strategic Capital Partners, Co., Ltd. Appointed to Representative Director (to present)
  • June 2010
    Appointed to Director of the Company
  • June 2016
    Appointed to Audit & Supervisory Committee Member of the Company (to present)
  • November 2016
    Appointed to Audit & Supervisory Committee Member of Risseisha Inc. (to present)
  • March 2017
    Appointed to President and Representative Director of Ken Real Estate Investment Advisors Ltd. (to present)
  • June 2017
    Appointed to President and Representative Director of Shibuya Television Co., Ltd. (to present)

Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (Independent Outside Director)

Shigeo Igashima

Date of Birth: December 12, 1963

  • October 1990
    Joined Chuo Shinko Audit Corporation
  • August 1995
    Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
  • January 1997
    Joined Yano Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
  • September 2004
    Appointed to Representative of Igashima C.P.A. Office (to present)
  • June 2005
    Appointed to Corporate Auditor of MTK Servicer Co., Ltd.
  • June 2008
    Appointed to Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company
    Appointed to Corporate Auditor of ejworks corporation
    Appointed to Corporate Auditor of Lunascape Corporation
  • December 2011
    Appointed to Standing Auditor of TAIYO BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD. (to present)
  • June 2012
    Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Shintokyo Group Co., Ltd. (to present)
  • October 2015
    President and Representative Director of Cluster Accounting Co., Ltd. (to present)
  • June 2016
    Appointed to Audit & Supervisory Committee Member of the Company (to present)
  • December 2017
    Appointed to Outside Director of TAIYO BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD. (to present)
  • January 2019
    Appointed to Representative partner of TIS Tax Accounting Corporation (to present)
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