Board of Directors

Guidelines for Appointment of Outside Officers

Link and Motivation Inc. has established standards of independence for outside officers (outside directors and outside Audit & Supervisory Board members).

Guidelines for Appointment of Company Officers (PDF: 131 kB) (Japanese only)

Board of Directors

(As of March 26, 2025)

Number of directors allowed for in the Articles of Incorporation 12
Director tenure under the Articles of Incorporation 1 year
Chair of Board of Directors meetings Chairman (except in the case that the chairman is also the president)
Number of directors 5
Appointment of outside directors Yes
Outside directors 2
Of whom, independent outside directors 2

Reasons for Appointment of Outside Directors

Name Reasons for Appointment
Nakamura Yuri
(Click here for profile.)		 Ms. Nakamura has insight and information analysis skills she has cultivated through her experience serving as a reporter, branch office manager and salesperson at a television station. In addition, she has built up an extensive network of contacts with executives through consulting and advertising agency work. She was elected as an Outside Director so that she can utilize her wide-ranging industry knowledge and customer-oriented strategy planning skills to contribute to improving the Company’s brand value and creating new business opportunities, as well as to strengthening our governance system.
Moreover, as Ms. Nakamura is not an individual whose independence requires additional justification according to the rules and regulations of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, she is deemed able to act from a fair and neutral standpoint. She has therefore been designated an independent officer.
Hara Yukari
(Click here for profile.)
 Ms. Hara has experience as a foreign service officer and a global perspective cultivated through drafting policy and international negotiations, in addition to contributing to human resource education and the creation of a sustainable society through her work with a non-governmental organization in Ghana. She has also utilized her perspective as a corporate executive to demonstrate leadership in a variety of fields, including involvement in organizational growth strategies and management decisions. She was elected as an Outside Director so that she can contribute to strengthening the Company’s human capital management and governance system, as well as promote long-term value creation by leveraging her expertise in the field of sustainability.
Moreover, as Ms. Hara is not an individual whose independence requires additional justification according to the rules and regulations of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, she is deemed able to act from a fair and neutral standpoint. She has therefore been designated an independent officer.

Audit & Supervisory Board

In order to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of our audit function, we strengthen cooperation among Audit & Supervisory Board members, the accounting auditor, and the internal auditor by providing opportunities to exchange opinions and information as necessary.

Established Audit & Supervisory Board Yes
Number of Audit & Supervisory Board members allowed for in the Articles of Incorporation 6
Number of Audit & Supervisory Board members 3
Appointment of outside Audit & Supervisory Board members Yes
Number of outside Audit & Supervisory Board members 2
Of whom, independent outside Audit & Supervisory Board members 2

Reasons for Appointment of Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Name Reasons for Appointment
Tominaga Kenji
(Click here for profile.)		 In the role of Outside Audit & Supervisory Board member, Mr. Tominaga is able to use his wealth of experience and profound knowledge from many years as a company manager to audit the management of the Company. As a person who is not an executive of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; an executive of any of the Company’s major business partners; a lawyer, accountant or consultant receiving a significant amount in cash or assets from the Company; a close relative (within two degrees of kinship) of an individual fulfilling any of the above criteria; or an individual whose independence requires additional justification according to the rules and regulations of Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., he is deemed able to conduct audits from a fair and neutral standpoint, and has therefore been designated an independent officer.
Matsuoka Yasumasa
(Click here for profile.)		 In the role of outside Audit & Supervisory Board member, Mr. Matsuoka is able to use his wealth of experience as a manager and his broad knowledge of marketing and the Company’s businesses to audit the management of the Company. As a person who is not an executive of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; nor an executive of any of the Company’s major business partners; nor a lawyer, accountant or consultant receiving a significant amount in cash or assets from the Company; nor a close relative (within two degrees of kinship) of an individual fulfilling any of the above criteria; nor an individual whose independence requires additional justification according to the rules and regulations of Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., he is deemed fit to conduct audits from a fair and neutral standpoint, and has therefore been designated an independent officer.

Outside Officers

Number of outside officers 4

Incentives

Implementation of measures for providing incentives to directors Performance-linked remuneration

The method used for determining the amount of performance-linked remuneration for each director is as follows.
Performance-linked remuneration for directors is paid twice per year in a cash payment commensurate to achieving certain targets. The representative directors prepare a draft proposal based on achieving various target levels for key management indicators, such as revenues and operating income as well as for key organizational indicators such as level of employee engagement and human resource capabilities. Outside directors are briefed in advance on the draft, which is then discussed, amended as necessary, and approved at a meeting of the Board of Directors after a thorough exchange of opinions.
The key management and organizational indicators and target values are set to be consistent with the medium-term management plan at the time the plan is formulated, and are reviewed by the Board of Directors as necessary in response to changes in the operating environment.
For performance-linked remuneration for the preceding fiscal year, key management and organizational indicators include revenues, operating income, level of employee engagement and human resource capabilities, and the amount is determined according to the overall percentage of achievement against target values for those indicators.

Directors’ Compensation

Disclosure (of individual directors’ compensation) No
Policies specifying compensation amounts and their calculation method Yes

Corporate Governance

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