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unerry appoints Nagisa Kuraoka CFO as it shifts to group management

The July 1 reshuffle makes Nagisa Kuraoka CFO and adds Satoshi Ichieda and Masato Sakata as executive officers, with unerry saying it needs faster decisions for group management and subsidiary PMI.

Jul 1, 20262 min read
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unerry is reshaping its senior operating team from July 1, giving the CFO post to Nagisa Kuraoka and appointing Satoshi Ichieda and Masato Sakata as new executive officers as the Tokyo Growth-listed company shifts to a consolidated-group management structure. In the filing, unerry says the move is meant to assign clear execution responsibility by function and speed up policy formulation and decision-making as the organisation expands.

Executive changes at unerry
Effective July 1, 2026, unless noted. Saito's retirement is planned for after the September 2026 annual shareholders meeting.
PersonRole from July 1Previous roleTiming
Nagisa KuraokaExecutive Officer, CFOGeneral Manager, Corporate DepartmentJuly 1, 2026
Yasushi SaitoDirector, Executive OfficerDirector, Executive Officer, CFOJuly 1, 2026; retirement planned after September 2026 annual shareholders meeting
Satoshi IchiedaExecutive OfficerGeneral Manager, Service Planning and DevelopmentJuly 1, 2026
Masato SakataExecutive OfficerGeneral Manager, CEO OfficeJuly 1, 2026

Kuraoka, currently general manager of the corporate department, becomes executive officer and CFO on July 1. unerry says she has led management strategy, management control, capital policy and investor relations at a Prime Market-listed company, and brings practical experience in M&A, post-merger integration and group-company management. The company says it wants to use that background to strengthen finance and management-control functions, reinforce capital policy and IR, and support sustained growth and corporate value.

For readers outside Japan, the useful signal is the priority list unerry chose to spell out: consolidated-group management, subsidiary PMI, stronger finance control, and faster decision-making. The appointments also draw from the corporate department, service planning and development, and the CEO office, indicating that the reshuffle spans finance, product-side planning and the central executive function. unerry adds that it is pursuing sustained growth on top of what it describes as one of Japan's largest people-flow data platforms.

The outgoing CFO, Yasushi Saito, will remain a director and executive officer after July 1, but is scheduled to retire after the annual shareholders meeting planned for September, when his term expires. The announcement does not include any new financial target, capital-allocation change, or detail on subsidiary structure.