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Scouting report · 1960.T

Nobutaka Yahata

  • Representative Director, President & President Executive Officer (代表取締役社長 社長執行役員), 1960.T since 2024-01src

At Sanyo Engineering & Construction since 1997; President since January 2024

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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
Age
51src
In the role
3 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
—
Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 3

  • Unplanned succession: he became President in January 2024 because his predecessor died in office on 2023-12-30, not through an announced plansrc
  • Family-company pattern: a Yahata held the presidency until 2021 and holds it again from 2024; no source reached states his relationship to the earlier President or to the foundersrc
  • Inside directors' pay was all fixed in the years ended March 2025 and March 2026 (¥76m and ¥113m for five people), with no bonus or share-based element, so his pay does not move with resultssrc

In their favour 2

  • Skin in the game: 805,000 shares, 5.04% of the company, built up slowly from 770,000 (3.28%) in the 2014-03 tablesrc
  • Record net income of ¥2,766m and operating cash flow of ¥5,831m in the year ended March 2026, his second full year, after a loss the year he took oversrc

Career

  1. 2024-01 – now
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc. (株式会社サンテック)src
    Representative Director, President & President Executive Officer
  2. 2022-01 – 2024-01
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Representative Director & Executive Vice President (副社長執行役員)
  3. 2020-06 – 2022-01
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Director, with no executive-officer post listed
  4. 2014-04 – 2020-06
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Director; Managing Executive Officer, head of the Sales HQ
    The 2016-03 yuho adds head of the Tokyo metropolitan business division and of the sales promotion office; the 2019-03 yuho lists him as Managing Executive Officer without the Sales HQ title
  5. 2010-07 – 2014-04
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Director; Senior Executive Officer in charge of the Administration HQ
  6. 2008-04 – 2010-07
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Director; Senior Executive Officer, head of the Administration HQ (管理本部長)
  7. 2006-06 – 2008-04
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Director; Executive Officer, head of the General Administration HQ (管理統括本部長)
  8. 2004-06 – 2006-06
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Director
  9. 2002-06 – 2004-06
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Executive Officer
  10. 1997-10 – 2002-06
    Sanyo Engineering & Construction Inc.src
    Joined the company
    The Nikkei preview (WS-nikkei-new) dates both his graduation and his joining to 1997

Not located: 1997-2002 posts before he became an executive officer are not stated in the yuho career; nothing before 1997 other than his degree was located

Achievements

  • Inside the company for 28 years: executive officer from June 2002, director from June 2004, and head of administration from 2006 to 2014 before running sales from 2014src
  • Became President in January 2024 after the sudden death of his predecessor Takeshi Katosrc
  • Net income went from a ¥771m loss (FY ended 2024-03) to ¥1,748m (FY ended 2025-03) and a record ¥2,766m (FY ended 2026-03); the dividend rose from ¥30 to ¥65 a share over the same yearssrc
  • Largest officer shareholder: 805,000 shares (5.04%) in the 2026-03 yuho tablesrc
  • His first spring as President brought a reorganisation: a new International HQ and a Compliance Officesrc

Education

  • Keio University, BEng Faculty of Science and Technology (理工学部) (1997)src

Background

  • Family Shares the surname of the previous long-serving President, Kinya Yahata (八幡欣也, President in the yuho tables for 2014-03 to 2021-03), and of the company's founder as named in a search summary (Sadaichi Yahata). No source reached states how any of them are relatedsrc
  • Founder A Yahata-surnamed president held the company from at least 2014 to 2021; Takeshi Kato, a director since at least 2014, is listed as President in the 2022-03 and 2023-03 yuho tables; Nobutaka Yahata is President from the 2024-03 table onsrc
  • Other Born in Tokyo, per the Nikkei appointment piecesrc
  • Other Between June 2020 and January 2022 he was a director with no executive post listed, then was made Representative Director & Executive Vice Presidentsrc

The promise ledger

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

Sources

9
  1. Web search result IRBANK officer page for 八幡信孝 (E00173): copies the yuho officer table (career 略歴, title and shares held by year, 2014-03 to 2026-03) from the yuho for the 79th period (FY 2025-04-01 to 2026-03-31). Fetched directly; EDINET is egress-blocked and EDINET DB get_directors was withdrawn · 2026-09-24
  2. Web search result IRBANK 'サンテック (1960) officer list': copies the yuho director and auditor tables (titles and shares held), yuho years 2014-03 to 2026-03. Fetched directly · 2026-09-24
  3. Web search result IRBANK 'サンテック (1960) director pay history': copies the yuho per-category officer pay totals, FY ended March 2014 to March 2026; no officer is itemised at ¥100m or more. Fetched directly · 2026-09-24
  4. Data connector EDINET DB get_director_compensation(edinet_code=E00173, fiscal_year=2025 and 2026): inside directors (5 each year) got only fixed pay, ¥76m in the FY ended 2025-03 and ¥113m in the FY ended 2026-03; no performance-linked cash, bonus or share-based rows
  5. Data connector EDINET DB get_financials(edinet_code=E00173, years=3): J-GAAP consolidated; FY ended 2026-03-31 (yuho S100YFBB, filed 2026-06-22), FY ended 2025-03-31 (S100W44F), FY ended 2024-03-31 (S100TSVW)
  6. Web search result Nikkei 'サンテック社長に八幡氏' 2024-01-03, visible preview fetched: Nobutaka Yahata, 49, born in Tokyo, Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology 1997, joined the company that year, director 2004, representative vice president 2022; succeeds President Takeshi Kato, who died on 2023-12-30. Paywalled beyond the preview · 2026-09-24
  7. Web search result Nikkei '（新社長）サンテック 八幡信孝氏' 2024-01-05, visible preview fetched: Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology graduate (1997), joined the company in 1997. Paywalled beyond the preview · 2026-09-24
  8. Web search result WebSearch: サンテック 機構改革 2024年 (summary of the 2024-03-21 TDnet release 'organisational reform and changes of representative director, directors, auditors and executive officers': new International HQ over the international business division, new Compliance Office, sales/construction promotion office folded into the Sales HQ; Abe to become Representative Director & EVP on 2024-06-25). Release itself not fetched: Nikkei paywall, Yahoo PDF mirror egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  9. Web search result WebSearch: Sanyo Engineering & Construction corporate profile (search summary: company founded in 1937; Sadaichi Yahata named as the founder). The summary did not say which result carried the founder's name, and the page was not fetched (Yahoo returned 503) · 2026-09-24