Epson Announces Change of New President

📢 Epson Announces Leadership Change: New President Takes the Helm in 2025

Epson has announced a leadership transition, with Junkichi Yoshida set to become President and CEO on April 1, 2025. He will succeed Yasunori Ogawa, who will take on the role of Chairman and Director.

This change comes as Epson prepares for its next strategic corporate vision, following the completion of its Epson 25 Renewed initiative. The new leadership aims to strengthen the company’s foundation, accelerate innovation, and advance Epson’s mission of sustainability and technological excellence. 

Epson announced that a meeting of its board of directors had approved a change of representative director and the appointment of a new president, effective April 1, 2025.

Details of change

 

Name	New position	Previous position
Yasunori Ogawa	Chairman and Director	President and Representative Director Chief Executive Officer
Junkichi Yoshida	President and Representative Director Chief Executive Officer	Director, Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division

Brief career history of new president

 

Name	Junkichi Yoshida
Date of birth	September 27, 1964
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
Education	Faculty of Economics, Keio University
Brief career history	April 1988	Joined Seiko Epson Corporation
	April 2012	Appointed General Manager, Printer Strategic Planning Department
	April 2019	Appointed Deputy General Administrative Manager, DX Division
	June 2020	Appointed Executive Officer (current position)
	October 2020	Appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Operations Division
	April 2021	Appointed Chief Operating Officer, Printing Solutions Division (current position)
	June 2024	Appointed Director (current position)
	April 2025	To be appointed President and Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer
Number of Epson shares held	14,500 (as of December 31, 2024)

 

 

Reasons for change

 

Epson aspires to achieving sustainability and enriching communities as part of its Epson 25 Renewed corporate vision. Accordingly, its businesses are focused on solving societal issues through a philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation.

 

The 2025 fiscal year is the final year of Epson 25 Renewed. It is also a year during which Epson will finish formulating its next strategic corporate vision for driving future growth.

It is important for the company to steadily execute its plans for the next generation and rapidly develop pioneering products and the technologies that support them in both growth and new areas.

This transition in leadership, which was deliberated by the Director Nomination Committee and resolved by the Board of Directors, is thus intended to accelerate the construction of a solid management foundation aimed at enhancing corporate value, under a new management team that will be responsible for everything from formulating the next corporate vision to executing the strategies therein.

Date of appointment

April 1, 2025