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Scouting report · 9022.T

Ataru Kimura

  • Representative Director & Executive Vice President (General Planning HQ, Finance Department), 9022.T since 2026-06src

JR Central since 1992; Representative Director & EVP over planning and finance since June 2026

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design—no proxy read yet
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
In the role
4 mo
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
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Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
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Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 3

  • The whole résumé rests on search summaries of pages this environment could not open; the English and Japanese summaries disagree on what he ran in 2023-2026, and his name's romanisation (Ataru) comes only from English-language listingssrc
  • New to the board in June 2026, so no yuho yet shows his shareholding, and his pay sits outside the FY2026 director totalssrc
  • No finance or treasury post appears in the career located; his background is corporate planning and PRsrc

Career

  1. 2026-06 – now
    Central Japan Railway (JR Central)src
    Representative Director & Executive Vice President; General Planning HQ and Finance Department
  2. 2023-06 – 2026-06
    Central Japan Railway (JR Central)src
    Senior executive officer (専務執行役員 by 2026); General Manager of the General Planning Headquarters by May 2026
    Sources disagree on the remit: WS-nbp puts him at the head of the General Planning HQ from June 2023, while WS-en has him in charge of the Secretarial, Audit and PR Departments from June 2024. WS-2026 confirms the General Planning HQ post by May 2026
  3. 2022-06 – 2023-06
    Central Japan Railway (JR Central)src
    Managing Executive Officer (常務執行役員), General Manager of Public Relations
  4. 2020-06 – 2022-06
    Central Japan Railway (JR Central)src
    Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of the General Planning Headquarters
  5. 2019-06 – 2020-06
    Central Japan Railway (JR Central)src
    General Manager, Corporate Management Department (経営管理部), General Planning HQ
  6. 1992-04 – 2019-06
    Central Japan Railway (JR Central)src
    Joined April 1992

Not located: 1992-2019 posts not located. No yuho 略歴 exists for him (he was not a director in any yuho through FY2026); every career line is from search summaries whose pages could not be fetched, and they disagree on his 2023-2026 remit

Achievements

  • A JR Central lifer since 1992, promoted to Representative Director & EVP at the June 2026 AGM with the General Planning HQ and the Finance Departmentsrc
  • Came up through the General Planning HQ: head of its corporate management department (2019), deputy head of the HQ (2020)src
  • Ran Public Relations as a managing executive officer from June 2022src
  • Takes over finance after a record year: FY ended March 2026 net income ¥552.9bn, up 20.6%src

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

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  1. Web search result WebSearch: JR東海 2026年6月23日付 役員 代表取締役副社長 財務部担当 / 代表取締役および役員の異動について 2026年5月18日 (summaries of the 2026-05-18 release and trade press: 木村中, until then 専務執行役員 総合企画本部長 and 特命事項担当, becomes Representative Director & EVP responsible for the General Planning HQ and the Finance Department from 2026-06-23; Akihiko Nakamura and Hiroshi Suzuki step down as EVPs). Release not fetched: jr-central.co.jp is egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  2. Web search result WebSearch result headline: 'JR東海 役員人事を内定 副社長に木村氏、辻村氏 6月23日付', Kotsu Shimbun 2026-05-20 (page not fetched) · 2026-09-24
  3. Web search result WebSearch: 木村中 JR東海 専務執行役員 総合企画本部長 略歴 (summary of a Nikkei BP Consulting interview profile, October 2023: joined JR Central April 1992; General Manager of Corporate Management, General Planning HQ from June 2019; executive officer and deputy head of the General Planning HQ from June 2020; managing executive officer and General Manager of Public Relations from June 2022; current post from June 2023). Page not fetched: consult.nikkeibp.co.jp is egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  4. Web search result WebSearch: 'Ataru Kimura' Central Japan Railway (summaries of JR Central's English officer-change notice of 2024-05-16 and officer list: Senior Corporate Executive Officer in charge of the Secretarial, Audit and Public Relations Departments from June 2024; listed as an Executive Vice President as of July 2026). Pages not fetched: global.jr-central.co.jp is egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  5. Web search result IRBANK 'Central Japan Railway (9022) officer list', copying each yuho's 役員の状況 for the years labelled 2014-03 to 2026-03; Kimura is in none of them; page fetched directly · 2026-09-24
  6. Data connector EDINET DB get_financials(edinet_code=E04149, years=3): FY ended 2026-03-31, yuho doc S100YD7H submitted 2026-06-22, JP GAAP consolidated · 2026-09-24