Yasumasa Kuboyama will moves back to Japan to take over a new department in Konica Minolta Sensing business unit. Effective April 2nd, 2024, he passed the position to Dr Yuta Yamanoi, who together with CEO Dr. Markus Ehbrecht will form the new Instrument Systems management team.

Dr Yamanoi has distinguished himself through more than two decades of professional experience in the field of color and light measurement technology. After eight years in the development department at Konica Minolta Sensing in Japan, in 2016 he transferred to Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. as business development manager. In this capacity he also took over the support of key account customers in the IT segment. Most recently, he was senior manager for strategic planning in light and display, and color and appearance division of Konica Minolta sensing business unit in Japan. As a scientist with a PhD in earth and space sciences he thus disposes of extensive and highly relevant know-how in the business area of the wholly-owned Konica Minolta subsidiary Instrument Systems.

In his new role, over the next few years he will continue to promote the cooperation between the Konica Minolta subsidiaries of the sensing business unit with their light and display and color and appearance division, which also includes Instrument Systems.