Yuka Shimada joined Unilever as an HR manager in 2008, became the HR Director in 2012, and assumed her current role as HR & GA Director in 2013.

From 2002 to 2008, Ms. Shimada worked at General Electric where she experienced the HR Leadership Program, HRBP, LD, and HR Service. She joined Pasona Inc. upon graduation from Keio University and went on to earn an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University Graduate School in New York. Ms. Shimada is a certified NLP master practitioner and a Mindfulness NLP® Trainer. She is married and has one son.