The CFO of the youngest company listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been updated!
Euglena and take on the challenge of creating a sustainable society
The second Chief Future Officer is 15 years old

Euglena Co., Ltd.

　Euglena Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Mitsuru Izumo, hereinafter "Euglena") participates in the management of the generation who lives in the future in order to transform the future into a sustainable form as a company. In 2019, we established a new CFO (Chief Future Officer, hereinafter referred to as "CFO"). We are pleased to announce that 15-year-old Rena Kawasaki has been selected as the second CFO to challenge the creation of a sustainable society through Our

Vice President Akihiko Nagata (left), Second CFO Rena Kawasaki (middle), President Mitsuru Izumo (right)

　Euglena renewed its corporate philosophy at the milestone of its 15th anniversary in August 2020, and set "Sustainability First" as the Euglena Philosophy, which is "what Euglena Based on this, we aim to develop businesses centered on sustainability and contribute to sustainable initiatives for the future by allowing our customers to come into contact with the businesses and products we develop. (https://www.euglena.jp/news/20200811/)
In order to accelerate this "Sustainability First" and transform the future into a sustainable form as a company, we believe that the generation who will live in the future should participate in management, and in 2019 A new CFO was established, and the first 17-year-old CFO was born at that time. During the one-year term, the first CFO formulated a policy of "aiming to build a system that allows customers to take environmentally conscious actions regardless of their height or low awareness of the environment." However, based on this policy, Euglena has also formulated a policy to completely abolish existing PET bottle products for beverages, allow customers to choose whether or not to use plastic straws for some products, and reduce plastic consumption by 50% by the end of 2021. doing.
　In August 2020, we recruited the second generation CFO and Future Summit members to support its activities in order to continue and update the management reforms of future generations. We have appointed 15-year-old Rena Kawasaki, who has both entrepreneurship and ability to act, as the second CFO, and selected five Future Summit members.

■ About the 2nd generation CFO

Name: Rena Kawasaki
Age: 15 years old (born in 2005)
Birthplace: Osaka
What I like and what I am interested in: Musicals (dance, singing, acting), education (creating a curriculum related to SDGs, etc.)
Reason for selection:
He is a human resource with a wide range of unique awareness of sustainability and the ability to take action to set up the Japanese branch of an international NGO to solve the problem, and highly appreciates the potential of Our Did.
Personal comment:
"Nice to meet you. I'm Lena Kawasaki. I'm a 15-year-old third-year junior high school student. I hated the word sustainability because it was used like a catch phrase and I couldn't solve various social problems. But Euglena Co., Ltd. I was impressed by how much effort I put into sustainability, so I applied for the CFO this time. In Japan, I feel that I don't teach much about sustainability at schools, so what is needed for Japan in the future? When I think about it, I think it's education, but I Euglena and Summit members. I haven't studied enough yet, but Our CFO of Euglena, it will definitely change. Thank you for your cooperation. "

* The term of office of the CFO is one year from October 2020 (until the end of September 2021). The details of the activities will be reported on the website.
CFO special page: https://euglena.jp/cfo/

■ Comments from our management
Comment from Mitsuru Izumo, President and CEO of the Company:
"Welcome to Euglena! I want you to try, act and challenge a lot in the past year, and we will work together to achieve one of them, which only we can do. Let's do it. "

Comment from Akihiko Nagata, Executive Vice President of the Company:
"When I was a teenager, I thought I couldn't influence society, but the CFO and all members of the Future Summit, although their individual strengths may be weak, through Euglena You have a chance to make a punch that can be changed. Turn everyone's thoughts into a powerful punch that changes society. "

　We will continue to accelerate our own sustainability efforts with the aim of realizing a sustainable society together with the new CFO.

<Related release>
・ August 2019 "Euglena Co., Ltd. starts recruiting CFOs under the age of 18 who will change the future together" https://www.euglena.jp/news/20190809-2/
・ October 2019 "The youngest CFO of a company listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange is born!" Https://www.euglena.jp/news/20191029-2/
・ June 2020 "Euglena will completely abolish PET bottle products together with CFO" https://www.euglena.jp/news/20200629-2/
・ August 2020 "Start recruiting second-generation CFOs to create the future with Euglena" https://www.euglena.jp/news/20200807-2/

<About Euglena Co., Ltd.>
In 2005, we succeeded in establishing the world's first edible outdoor mass culture technology for the Euglena In Euglena and chlorella, we are also conducting research toward the production of biofuels. Euglena GENKI Program, which has been in operation since 2014 to deliver Euglena cookies with abundant nutrients to children in Bangladesh, will be expanded to all group products including cosmetics from April 2019. Listed on TSE Mothers in December 2012. TSE First Section market change in December 2014. We define "Sustainability First" as the Euglena Philosophy and develop our business. https://euglena.jp