Nintendo’s recent earnings report ended much higher than expected. Amid June’s Direct confirmations, as well as sales figures and Nintendo starting to talk about its next-gen console, there’s something else the company has decided to do.
You see, according to the company’s financial report, Nintendo is interested in expanding its board of directors. Currently, Nintendo’s board of directors is a group of 10 people that includes Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shinya Takahashi and even Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri.
However, Nintendo has officially nominated 4 more people to join the board of directors, although the candidates must first be approved to join. If so, new members can join next month, June 27th. Out of 4 nominated persons, 3 are women. The nominees are Yusuke Beppu, Miyoko Demay, Eiko Osawa and Keiko Akashi. Beppu is currently a senior executive at Nintendo along with Yoshiaki Koizumi and Hirokazu Shinshi. If the nomination is approved, Beppu would be promoted to corporate director.
Meanwhile, Demay, Osawa and Akashi will become outside directors. In the case of Osawa and Akashi, the two would become members of the audit and supervisory board, the same role as Katsuhiro Umeyama, Masao Yamazaki and Asa Shinkawa. However, it’s worth noting that Yamazaki was nominated to retire from the board in this same financial report, so Yamazaki more than likely won’t be on the board for much longer. The corporate director is currently Takuya Yoshimura.
