HIROSHIMA, JAPAN — Satake introduced management appointments at its European and Thailand operations. Kaoru Kawate was named managing director of Satake Europe and Koji Yamamoto was named firm president of Satake Thailand.
Kawate will lead the whole European operation, which incorporates the Center East, Africa and Russia. He joined Satake in 1996 and has greater than 24 years of expertise in worldwide enterprise and company administration.
“Along with my skilled staff, customer-oriented companies, and Satake’s high quality merchandise, we are going to additional develop gross sales networks in areas the place we are able to make an influence with our distinctive meals processing expertise,” he mentioned.
Kawate has a bachelor’s of science diploma in enterprise administration from the College of Evansville.
Yamamoto can be main one in all Satake’s primary manufacturing services. He began his profession with Satake in 1992 and has spent 22 years working in rice milling engineering. He spent two years within the UK and 7 years in Thailand as a rice milling specialist. Since 2017, he has supported Satake’s oversea group firms as head of the Worldwide Administration Workplace.
“High quality is the highest precedence to Satake’s merchandise,” he mentioned. “My mission is to pursue effectivity of producing processes whereas guaranteeing our gear maintains an ordinary which exceeds buyer expectations.”
Yamamoto has a grasp’s diploma in industrial chemistry from Hiroshima College.