Biography
Jin Song Montesano is Executive Officer and Senior Managing Director of the LIXIL Group. She leads a diverse global team responsible for corporate communications, corporate responsibility, investor relations, and external affairs. Jin also pioneered and oversees LIXIL’s first global social business, called SATO, a unique, award-winning start-up that innovates and commercialises sanitation solutions for Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) consumers. In 2017, she was appointed to oversee LIXIL’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic sponsorship activities.
Since joining LIXIL in 2014, Jin has built from scratch a global, cross-functional team in Tokyo, supporting HQ, and expanded LIXIL’s public affairs agenda with newly built teams in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Together, the global public affairs group has developed and delivered key initiatives such as LIXIL’s sustainability agenda, including its unique initiative to tackle global sanitation & hygiene, and the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles and commitments into its corporate strategy and reporting. She is a Board Director of the LIXIL Corporation, GROHE AG Supervisory Board, and the Permasteelisa Group S.p.A.
Prior to joining LIXIL, Jin built and held global and regional leadership roles in strategic communications, policy and government affairs for GlaxoSmithKline, General Electric, and Kraft Foods. She holds a Master in Public Affairs (MPA International Relations) from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a BA (English Literature) from Columbia University, and a Certificate in Public Policy from the Graduate School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley.
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株式会社LIXILグループ 執行役専務 広報・IR・渉外・コーポレートレスポンシビリティ担当、株式会社LIXILグループ LIXIL Water Technology Chief Public Affairs Officer (CPAO)、株式会社LIXIL 取締役 専務役員 Chief Public Affairs Officer (CPAO)
プリンストン大学ウッドロー・ウィルソンスクールMPA、コロンビア大学BA、UCバークレー公共政策大学院公共政策学科証明書取得。 グラクソ・スミスクライン、GE、クラフトフーズにおいて広報・渉外担当ディレクター、コミュニケーション担当バイスプレジデントなどを歴任後、2014年に株式会社LIXILに入社。機能横断型チームの創設、本社支援、企業広報事業の拡大のためのアジア・ヨーロッパ・アメリカでのチームの新設を手がけた。これらの国際企業広報グループは発展し、公衆衛生やESG（環境・社会・ガバナンス）を含む持続可能性事業を先導し続けている。また彼女は、Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BoP)顧客の衛生問題の解決を商業化させたSATOと呼ばれる同社初のグローバルソーシャルビジネスを創始・監督した。2017年には東京2020オリンピック・パラリンピック推進本部管掌に任命された。
