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Board of Directors
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| Toshiaki Ogasawara is Chairman and Publisher of The Japan Times, Limited, which publishes Japan’s oldest English language newspaper. The company was founded in 1897 and is, today, the country’s only independent English language newspaper. Concurrently, Mr. Ogasawara is Chairman of Nifco Inc., which is Japan’s premier manufacturer of plastic parts and components for the automobile and home electronic appliance makers. He was elected Chairman in 2001 and, before this, had been President of the company since its formation in 1967. Mr. Ogasawara also acts as Chairman of Simmons Co. Ltd. This Japanese company is the Far Eastern franchisee of Simmons USA and controls the Simmons franchises in 18 Asian countries. Mr. Ogasawara, was formerly an Advisory Director with Bank of America, and also presently serves or has served on the advisory boards of Avon, General Electric, LucasVarity, Prudential and NIKE. He has also served on a number of government committees and is presently a member of the Japan Committee for Cultural & Educational Interchange which reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and he is also a member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Global Industrial & Social Program Research Institute and a member of the same ministry’s Advisory Board of Japan International Co-operation System. In addition, he is also active in Japanese business organizations such as Nippon Keidanren and Keizai Doyukai and international organizations such as Asia Pacific Association of Japan, Youth for Understanding, United World Colleges, Japan Centre for International Exchange, and others. He has also been appointed as a Life Trustee for the University of Southern California; and serves as a Governor of the Japan Campus of Temple University: he is also a Governor of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and is a Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Society. Mr. Ogasawara was born in 1931 and has 2 children. He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of South Florida and Florida State. |
Leslie Lord - Executive Assistant to the Chairman| Leslie Lord joined Nifco Inc. in May, 1984 as Assistant to Mr. Toshiaki Ogasawara, now the Chairman of the company. Since this date, he has worked continuously with Mr. Ogasawara, who also acts as Chairman & Publisher of The Japan Times in addition to his responsibilities as Chairman of Nifco Inc. He has risen in the company and now works as Executive Assistant to the Chairman. In addition to his present position as Executive Assistant to the Chairman, Mr. Lord acts as director of many of the overseas subsidiaries and affiliates of Nifco Inc. He is also a director of the International Social Support Network, an NPO which provides assistance to the foreign community living in Japan, in particular, those from Latin America and a director of Worldject International Music NPO which sponsors musical concerts promoting relations among Japan, South Korea, China, and the USA. Mr. Lord was born in Lancashire, England and studied at Bury Grammar School. He is an Exhibitioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he studied Natural Sciences, and Archĺology and Anthropology. He gained his B.A. in 1977 and took his M.A. in 1981. Mr. Lord has lived in Tokyo, Japan since March 1979 and studied Japanese at the International Education Center, graduating from this school in June 1982. |
Greg Campbell - Managing Director
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Mr Campbell has more than 20 years national and international experience in commercial and residential property development. |
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