PROFILE

Asako Aoyama is the CFO of Global Business Unit of NEC Corporation, overseeing finance organizations of overseas subsidiaries along with the Japan based team called Global Finance.
Before joining NEC, she led the transformation of the bottling business and organizations for the Coca-Cola business in Japan. She joined Coca-Cola (Japan) Company, Limited in 2004. In 2011 she became the first Japanese female named to the board of directors in the history of Coca-Cola in Japan and served as CFO at Tokyo Coca-Cola Bottling Company (currently Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan inc., the third largest bottler in the world). She is a Japanese CPA and holds MBA from the business school at the Ohio State University.
She is also a Non-executive Director of Taiyo Holdings Co., Ltd., (TSE-I listed) and was appointed to the interim member of Japanese FSA’s Business Accounting Council in February 2021.