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Innovators Top "Institutional Investor's" Japan's Best CEO Survey
| Source: Institutional Investor
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 18, 2008) - A new wave of Japanese corporate leaders who
are embracing change to generate innovative new products and services and
drive growth top the list of "Institutional Investor's" second annual
ranking of Japan's Best CEOs.
Tomoko Namba, CEO of DeNA Co., was voted as Japan's Best CEO in the
Software/Business sector. Five years ago engineers at the company
approached Namba and suggested that the company tailor its games and social
networking sites for mobile phones. Today DeNA's Moba-ge-town entertainment
service (the name means Mobile Game Town) has 11 million registered users,
far ahead of its closest competitor's 1 million users.
Other winners include Naoteru Miyato of T&D Holdings, in
Financials/Insurance, who pursued demutualization and mergers to grow
market share and build the company into a leading Japanese insurer;
Yoshihiko Miyauchi in Financials/Other, who helped found Orix Corp. as
Japan's first leasing company in 1964 and has grown it into a diversified
financial services outfit; and Terunobu Maeda in Financials/Banks, who has
forged Mizuho Financial Group into one of Japan's leading megabanks through
the merger of three institutions.
Full results, including the list of winners in all 25 sectors and an
accompanying article, are available today on www.iimagazine.com
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