Executive summary / Personal profile
Reina Kobayashi
Chief Executive Officer Japan · Global perspective
Building enduring enterprises. Creating value that lasts.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Start a conversation01 / Leadership approach
My task is to give the enterprise a direction it can act on. I make the choices about customers, capital and capabilities explicit, then give business leaders the authority and accountability to deliver. I want difficult information to reach the leadership team while there is still time to respond.
02 / Areas of responsibility
- Enterprise strategy
- Business transformation
- Board stewardship
- Global growth
- Enterprise revenue led
- ₹18,400 Cr
- Across 22 markets
- Value created
- 3.1×
- Market capitalisation over six years
- Colleagues
- 41,000
- In manufacturing, services and retail
- Acquisitions integrated
- 7
- On time and within the thesis
Evidence from practice
- Enterprise transformation
- An established business had outgrown the operating model that made it successful.
- Market expansion
- A promising adjacent market required a different route to the customer.
- Operating performance
- Fragmented initiatives were consuming leadership attention without a shared view of performance.