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Apr. 1996 Joined The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Company, Limited (present Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited), Sep. 2002 Joined the Company, Aug. 2004 Financial Manager of HOYA HOLDINGS N.V. (Netherlands), Feb. 2007 Director of HOYA HOLDINGS N.V., Jul. 2007 Director of HOYA HOLDINGS N.V., and President of HOYA HOLDINGS (Asia) B.V., Jul. 2009 Deputy CFO of Netherlands Branch of the Company, Jun. 2013 Executive Officer & CFO of the Company, Jun. 2014 Representative Executive Officer & CFO, Jun. 2022 Director, Representative Executive Officer & CFO (present post)
Ryo Hirooka is the Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of HOYA Corporation (HOYA) and is responsible for the strategic financial leadership of the Company’s operations. As CFO, Mr. Hirooka adopts a proactive and agile financial strategy focusing on capital efficiency. Over the years, he has focused on cash generation and executing initiatives such as promoting CCC (Cash Conversion Cycle), all of which have gained positive attention within the investor community.
Mr. Hirooka joined the Finance Department of HOYA in 2002 before moving to Netherlands where the Group’s Global Financial HQ is located. There, he held various positions such as President of the Dutch Holding company to the Group’s Deputy CFO from 2004 to 2013, contributing to finance, tax, accounting, strategic financial planning, and treasury at a group level. Mr. Hirooka became Group CFO in 2013 and was appointed as a Representative Executive Officer of the Company the following year.
Prior to HOYA, Mr. Hirooka began his career at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (former Sumitomo Trust Bank, Limited), where he worked in the areas of finance and capital markets.
Mr. Hirooka holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. He is Japanese and is currently based in Singapore.
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