Further Evolution of Group Governance

「当社は、NTTグループとの間で締結する重要な契約については、ガバナンス委員会による審査を行ったうえで、意思決定を行います。特に重要な契約については取締役会での承認を必須とし、NTTグループからの独立した意思決定の確保に努めています。」

「In addition to meeting at least once a month on a regular basis, the Board of Directors meets promptly as necessary. During the fiscal year from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, it met 18 times in total, with each meeting lasting approximately 80 minutes.」

「The Company increased the number of executive officers effective 1 July 2025. By selectively appointing and assigning personnel with specialized knowledge and experience in each business field to management, it aims to create businesses through collaboration among businesses, expand business areas beyond individual segments, accelerate the Group's growth, speed up decision-making related to business execution, and maximize Group management. At the same time, it will work to improve management transparency and strengthen corporate governance by securing and involving diverse management talent, while developing next-generation leaders and future management teams and pursuing sustainable growth.」

「In addition to meeting at least once a month on a regular basis, the Board of Directors meets promptly as necessary. During the fiscal year from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, it met 18 times in total, with each meeting lasting approximately 80 minutes.」

「The Governance Committee consists of independent outside directors. As an advisory body responsible for protecting the interests of the Company's minority shareholders and monitoring and supervising transactions between the Group and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and its Group companies, it deliberates matters referred to it by the Board of Directors and other matters it considers necessary, and reports or submits recommendations to the Board of Directors.」

「Director Ishibashi Hideki (石橋英城) — joined 株式会社NTTドコモ; December 2023; Director of the Company (current). Director and Audit and Supervisory Committee member Nagai Osamu (永井理) — December 2023; Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee member of the Company (current).」

「As before, we are strengthening our capital policies based on a stable financial foundation, creating businesses through collaboration among Group companies, implementing measures to increase human capital and other non-financial capital, and promoting initiatives to enhance sustainability.」

「Across the Group, we are strengthening our capital policies based on a stable financial foundation, creating businesses through collaboration among Group companies, implementing measures to increase human capital and other non-financial capital, and promoting initiatives to enhance sustainability.」

「Across the Group, we are strengthening our capital policies based on a stable financial foundation, creating businesses through collaboration among Group companies, implementing measures to increase human capital and other non-financial capital, and promoting initiatives to enhance sustainability.」

「In addition, to build good relations with the capital markets, we will strengthen our ESG initiatives by identifying and enhancing disclosure of human capital and other non-financial capital within the Group, working to disclose the impacts, risks and opportunities of climate change on business strategy and sustainability in line with the TCFD recommendations, and continuing to transform our management structure in ways that contribute to growth, including in relation to corporate governance.」

「In addition, to build good relations with the capital markets, we will thoroughly implement the corporate governance improvements and security compliance regarded as important in ESG investment, while working to protect the data utilization environment as part of our SDG initiatives,」

「We will continue to promote corporate governance and compliance with security requirements, which are regarded as important in ESG investment, to build good relations with the capital markets, while contributing to the realization of a sustainable society.」

「The Board of Directors consists of 6 directors excluding directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee members, including 1 outside director, and 4 directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee members, including 3 outside directors. In principle, it meets once a month to make decisions on basic management policies and other important matters and supervise the execution of duties by the representative directors and executive officers.」

「The Company has also established the Internal Control Promotion Committee to promote internal controls across the Group, the Crisis Management Committee to address crises involving the Group's businesses, the Management System Committee to promote the Group's management systems, and the Information Security Committee to identify and resolve information security issues.」

「In the fiscal year, the second year of the 11th Medium-Term Management Plan, the Company accelerated initiatives addressing the Group's key priorities: optimizing the Group structure, making strategic investments to achieve Group growth, and further advancing Group governance, under the Group's basic policy of “Renovation & Innovation: Accelerating Further Growth with ‘Understanding Consumers’ as Our Greatest Weapon.”」