Masaaki Tsuya
Member of the Board
CEO and Representative Executive Officer;
Concurrently Chairman of the Board
Masaaki Tsuya is
Member of the Board, CEO and
Representative Executive Officer of Bridgestone
Corporation. He also serves as Chairman of the
Board for Bridgestone Corporation.
Tsuya joined Bridgestone Corporation in April of
1976 as member of Office of International
Relations,
and soon began leading International Business
Relations, Administration and Business Management
at the company. He was a member of the Firestone
acquisition team in 1988.
In March of 2012, Tsuya was appointed as CEO and Representative Board Member of
Bridgestone, a testament to his international business leadership efforts in Japan,
Europe and United States.
Over the course of his career, he accumulated a wealth of global business and
corporate management experience through his work
in International Relations, Human
Resources and Public Relations, and has strongly promoted management reforms,
including strengthening corporate governance, since his appointment as CEO.
He earned his Bachelor
’s
Degree in Economics from Hitotsubashi University in Japan,
and has an M.B.A. in International Business from The University of Chicago.
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