Directors & Officers Profile
Directors & Officers Profile
Auditor
Shoukichi Hiraoka
| March 1980 | Completed course at Tokyo University Graduate School of Engineering Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering. |
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| April 1980 | Joined DAIKEN SEKKEI Involved in the design of a wide variety of buildings as a structural engineer. Was dispatched to Africa for 14 months starting in February 1992 as a consultant for an ODA project. Later, worked in the Plant Project Department as a project manager for a variety of plant projects in Japan and overseas. After working on another ODA project starting in 2002 (in Nicaragua), was promoted to General Manager of Tokyo Branch in 2004, director in 2011. |
| 2013 | Made Representative Director and CEO. |
| 2021 | Made Chairman of the Board of Directors. |
| 2023 | Was promoted appointed Auditor. |
After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Nishi High School, I attended University of Tokyo's Faculty of Engineering, where I first graduated with a Bachelor's in Architecture in 1978 and then completed my Master’s in Architecture in 1980. Upon joining DAIKEN SEKKEI in April 1980, I spent my first 12 years as a structural designer working on design for a wide variety of buildings, and from 1992, as a consultant for ODA projects, was assigned to Africa for 14 months in Senegal and Guinea. After that, I worked as a PM for overseas projects, mainly for the Plant Engineering Dept., before returning to work on ODA projects (in Nicaragua) from 2002. From there, I served as Deputy Director of the Tokyo Office in 2004, Executive Officer from 2005, Managing Executive Officer for two years from 2011, and Representative Director and CEO from 2013. I then became Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2021 before taking my current role as Auditor in 2023.
In my time as CEO, I chased the ideal company with the belief that the most important thing for the company is the happiness of employees and their families, and that if happy employees do a good job, it will further the goals of our customers and society and grow the company. Currently as Auditor, I am attentively watching the growth of DAIKEN SEKKEI.
Reflections on My Career
In my first 12 years, as a structural designer, I designed a wide variety of structures while working on steelworks and other plant projects. While in charge of structural design for an office building in a redevelopment project in the Yokohama Port Side District, our company's second high-rise building, I surprised my superiors with my structural evaluations, having radically optimized structural calculation sheets.
My 14-month African assignment in Senegal and Guinea was a major turning point in my life. Both were JICA Grant Aid projects to build dozens of elementary schools, zooming around in Pajeros through the deserts of Senegal and the jungles of Guinea. Despite being one of world's most impoverished countries, I was touched by how strong and happy the Guinean people were in their lives.
During my time as a PM in the Plant Engineering Department, I flew around Asia and the world working on a variety of projects. For Perwaja Steel in Malaysia, when the client's famous president complained that the design was too stale, I painstakingly tried to convince him that the design was the most reasonable plan. From that point, the president, also a Tan Sri (local royalty), trusted me greatly.
From 2002, I returned to work on an ODA project as Chief Consultant. It was a school project in Nicaragua. The streets were so dangerous that we were escorted by police with machine guns to protect us during surveys and the like.
In 2011, I was appointed Managing Director of the Tokyo Office, the same year the UIA World Congress of Architects was held in Tokyo. The Japan Institute of Architects (JIA) appointed me to accompany the Bhutanese Prime Minister, and when I later visited Bhutan, I met with the King and Queen of Bhutan. Having tea with them at the royal palace was an unforgettable experience.
If you ask me about my hobbies...
I'm a man of many hobbies: Jazz trombone, watercoloring, bird carving, plastic models, golf. I put my all into a variety of hobbies.
The world of Jazz is a deep one, and I have been gradually honing my trombone skills as I explore the mysterious world of sound that cannot be entirely comprehended on a theoretic level, like why a particular timbre sounds neat with a particular chord. I've also rented out a jazz club to hold my own gigs.
In a solo exhibition I once held for my watercolor paintings, the bird carvings I chose to exhibit alongside the paintings attracted more attention. I couldn’t help but laugh.
At my age, my driving distance has inevitably declined. It stings not being able to beat my juniors.