Kazuhisa Yano

Kazuhisa Yano

Kazuhisa Yano

Executive Chairman, Osaka Gas Singapore and Chief Asia Representative
Osaka Gas

Mr. Kazuhisa Yano is Executive Chairman of Osaka Gas Singapore Pte. Ltd., an affiliate of the Daigas Group, a leading Japanese corporate group energy businesses. He assumed his current responsibilities on 1 April, 2018.

Prior to the present position, Yano experienced his senior executive assignments at Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. as Heads of the Commercial & Industrial Energy Business Unit (April 2016 – March 2018) and the Energy Resources & International Business Unit (April 2014 – March 2016).

Yano experienced other executive positions in the fields of corporate communications, commercial and industrial energy marketing, and regional networking, between June 2007 and March 2014.

In the fields of international energy business, Yano in his previous responsibilities worked as manager for business planning and development as well as for asset management both within Osaka Gas and its power business subsidiary, Gas & Power Investment, between 2000 and 2007.

After joining the company in 1981, Yano was assigned in marketing divisions for almost 20 years, covering activities ranging from residential to commercial and industrial business planning and sales.

Yano was educated at Kobe University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He also did academic work at University of Reading in UK as a graduate student (MSc in Urban Land Appraisal) and as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.

Yano was born in November 1958.