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Scouting report · 6951.T

Toshihiko Kanayama

  • Director & Executive Officer, head of the Management Strategy Office (取締役兼執行役員 経営戦略室長), 6951.T since 2024-06src

Ex-head of JEOL's Finance HQ; director over the Management Strategy Office

—thin record

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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
2 yr
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 4

  • Treating him as CFO is an inference: no source located gives any JEOL officer the CFO title, and a different director (矢口勝基, Yaguchi) held finance responsibility at some earlier pointsrc
  • Small stake: 2,900 shares, 0.006% of the company, per the FY2026 yuhosrc
  • Capex jumped to ¥20.18bn in FY2026 from ¥7.03bn, operating cash flow fell to ¥16.0bn from ¥23.1bn, and ¥14.0bn of short-term loans reappeared on the balance sheetsrc
  • Pay not disclosed individually: seven internal directors shared ¥270m in FY2026src

Career

  1. 2024-06 – now
    JEOLsrc
    Director & Executive Officer, head of the Management Strategy Office
  2. 2023-04 – 2024-06
    JEOLsrc
    Executive Officer, head of the Management Strategy Office (経営戦略室長)
  3. 2020-06 – 2023-04
    JEOLsrc
    General Manager for Europe (欧州支配人); Executive Officer from 2021-04
    Also Directeur général of JEOL (Europe) SAS, the French subsidiary, 2020-07-01 to 2023-07-01 (WS-europe)
  4. 2016-04 – 2020-06
    JEOLsrc
    Head of the Finance Headquarters (財務本部長)
    Also senior staff (主幹) of the Management Strategy Office at the 2016-04 appointment (WS-fin2016); the yuho gives no end date, the next post starts 2020-06
  5. 1990-04 – 2016-04
    JEOLsrc
    Joined the company April 1990

Not located: 1990-2016 posts inside JEOL are not itemised in the yuho 略歴 and were not located elsewhere

Achievements

  • Ran JEOL's Finance Headquarters from April 2016 to 2020, then the European business for three yearssrc
  • Heads the Management Strategy Office (since 2023) and joined the board in June 2024; he is the contact named on the results releasessrc
  • In his time at the strategy office the dividend rose from ¥66 (FY2023) to ¥132 (FY2026) and treasury stock went to 2.30m shares after the February 2026 tender buybacksrc

Background

  • Boards Directeur général of the subsidiary JEOL (Europe) SAS, 2020-2023src

The promise ledger

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

Sources

8
  1. Web search result IRBANK 'JEOL (6951) officer list', copying each yuho's 役員の状況 (officers, titles and shares held) for the years labelled 2014-03 to 2026-03; page fetched directly · 2026-09-24
  2. Web search result IRBANK officer page for 金山俊彦, copying the 略歴 (career) and shareholdings from the yuho for the 79th term (FY 2025-04-01 to 2026-03-31) and the two before; page fetched directly · 2026-09-24
  3. Web search result IRBANK 'JEOL (6951) officer pay', copying the yuho's officer-remuneration table by category, FY2014-FY2026; no officer is itemised (none at ¥100m or more); page fetched directly · 2026-09-24
  4. Data connector EDINET DB get_financials(edinet_code=E01905, years=7): FYs ended March 2020-2026, JP GAAP consolidated; FY2026 yuho doc S100YIDD submitted 2026-06-23 · 2026-09-24
  5. Web search result WebSearch: JEOL Kanayama Director Management Strategy contact financial results (summary: Toshihiko Kanayama, Director & Officer and General Manager of the Management Strategy Planning Division, is the contact named on JEOL's results releases, including the FY ended March 2025 results and the September 2024 half-year results). Pages not fetched: jeol.com is egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  6. Web search result WebSearch: '金山俊彦' 日本電子 財務担当 (summary of a Nikkei personnel notice: 金山俊彦 to be 財務本部長兼経営戦略室主幹, Finance HQ head and senior staff of the Management Strategy Office, from 2016-04-01). Page not fetched · 2026-09-24
  7. Web search result WebSearch: JEOL 'Toshihiko Kanayama' (summary of the French company register: Directeur général of JEOL (Europe) SAS from 2020-07-01, replaced by a successor on 2023-07-01) · 2026-09-24
  8. Web search result WebSearch: 日本電子 矢口勝基 専務執行役員 担当 (summary: director 矢口勝基 (Yaguchi) was at one time the director responsible for finance, IT and export trade control, and later for the EX business unit; dates not given) · 2026-09-24