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Jin Song Montesano

3-11-9 Shimouma, Setagaya-ku

Summary

Trusted counsel to CEOs and boards, Jin brings over 25 years of global management experience scaling complex transformations across large organizations. She specializes in developing people, culture, and impact strategies to create new corporate value. Her management track record enables her to contribute to enhancing Corporate Governance in Japan. Jin serves on the corporate boards of LIXIL‬‭ Corporation (TYO:5938) and Yamaha Motor Company‬‭ (TYO:7272) - where she is currently Chairs the Nomination Committee.

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

REPRESENTATIVE EXECUTIVE OFFICER; CPO

LIXIL GROUP
11.2014 - Current
  • Company Overview: LIXIL is a publicly traded global housing and water technology company listed on the TSE, home to brands such as GROHE, American Standard, and INAX.
  • Launched new Global People Strategy in 2020 and reorganized the HR function to deliver more strategic initiatives connected to the business imperative.
  • Transformed an inherited communications team of 34 with unclear R&Rs into an award-winning team that can better serve the company’s forward-looking interests as a global company.
  • Established award-winning Sustainability and Responsibility strategy, and built a formal governance mechanism to co-create, validate, and approve strategic initiatives required to deliver on the Sustainability and Responsibility strategy for the Corporation.
  • Successful crisis and stakeholder management of LIXIL’s worst corporate crisis since inception led to enhanced trust and investor confidence in LIXIL in 2015.
  • Achievements:

VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLIC AFFAIRS & COMMUNICATIONS, VACCINES

GSK PLC
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • Company Overview: GSK is the world’s leading manufacturer of vaccines, both in terms of breadth of vaccine products and the number of doses made and sold.
  • Created and chaired a new governing body, the Global Vaccines Public Affairs Board, to set direction on key business topics that intersected commercial, medical, scientific, and public policy/global health interests.
  • Rebuilt, reorganized, and led three new teams that were globally fit for purpose: Global Communications, Global Government Affairs and Public Policy, and Belgium Public Affairs, with new R&Rs and a strategic planning process that aligned and integrated priorities across teams.
  • Achievements:

VICE PRESIDENT, CORP & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, ASIA PACIFIC

KRAFT FOODS
01.2009 - 01.2012
  • Company Overview: Kraft Foods was at the time the world’s second largest food company with nearly $50 billion in revenue, with a fast-growing Asia Pacific business generating sales of $6 billion.
  • Secured investment in talent and resources for the function within 100 days by helping peer executives and GMs to understand what ‘good looks like’ when the function is adding value.
  • Upgraded bench of CGA talent across all Business Units and led a strategic planning process to align the team’s work scope to the business’s priorities (a first for the function at that time).
  • Created a policy platform to enable more effective policy outcomes for industry.
  • Established strategic partnerships to enhance the corporate awareness of Kraft Foods.
  • Achievements:

VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS ASIA PACIFIC

GE MONEY
01.2005 - 01.2009
  • Built Communications teams from scratch and established processes and systems across markets to support the business during a highly acquisitive phase of its growth.
  • Developed and implemented successful communication strategies for over US$8 billion in M&A transactions including strategic positioning of deals and post-merger integration processes.
  • Achievements:

DIRECTOR, CORP & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS ASIA PACIFIC

GSK PLC
01.2001 - 01.2005
  • Recruited by former client to build GSK’s first regional Corporate and Govt Affairs function with a scope of work that included Product Communications, Corporate Communications, and Government Relations as key areas of focus across 11 markets.

CONSULTANT

OGILVY & MATHER PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE
01.2000 - 01.2001
  • Built and managed accounts focused on Issues and Crisis Communications, Product PR, and tackling key regulatory issues in the region.

POLICY RESEARCH FELLOW

APCSS
01.1997 - 01.1999
  • Company Overview: APCSS (Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies) is a unit of the Policy Division of the Defense Department’s US Pacific Command.
  • Position responsibilities included writing and preparing security policy briefs for USG use, developing conference agendas and supporting academic activities of the Center.

DIRECTOR, CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS

KOREA ECONOMIC INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
01.1995 - 01.1997
  • Monitored and analyzed key trade policy issues of importance to US-Korea economic policy and trade relations. Managed legislative visits between members of the US Congress and Korean National Assembly.

Education

M.P.A. - Int’l Relations

Woodrow Wilson School of Public & Int’l Affairs, Princeton University
New Jersey, USA
06-1995

B.A. - English Literature

Columbia College of Columbia University
New York, USA
06-1993

Certificate - Public Policy

Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
California, USA
08-1992

Skills

  • People, talent strategy
  • Stakeholder management
  • ESG and sustainability strategies
  • Issues and Crisis management
  • Executive leadership coaching

Affiliations

  • LIXIL Corporation: Internal Board Director
  • Yamaha Motor Company, Ltd: External Board Director and Chair, Nomination Committee
  • Tokyo English Lifeline (TELL), Board of Director
  • Page Society, Member of the Board of Trustees

Hobbies and Interests

Swimming, painting, cooking for friends, and spending time with my beloved dogs. 

Publications

  • Winning Corporate Reputation Strategies: Lessons from Asia Pacific (McGraw-Hill Education Asia Ltd, February 2012) co-edited with Mark Chong
  • Chapter in Keeping the Peace: Multidimensional UN Operations in Cambodia and El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 1997), edited by Michael Doyle

Timeline

REPRESENTATIVE EXECUTIVE OFFICER; CPO

LIXIL GROUP
11.2014 - Current

VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLIC AFFAIRS & COMMUNICATIONS, VACCINES

GSK PLC
01.2012 - 01.2014

VICE PRESIDENT, CORP & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, ASIA PACIFIC

KRAFT FOODS
01.2009 - 01.2012

VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS ASIA PACIFIC

GE MONEY
01.2005 - 01.2009

DIRECTOR, CORP & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS ASIA PACIFIC

GSK PLC
01.2001 - 01.2005

CONSULTANT

OGILVY & MATHER PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE
01.2000 - 01.2001

POLICY RESEARCH FELLOW

APCSS
01.1997 - 01.1999

DIRECTOR, CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS

KOREA ECONOMIC INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
01.1995 - 01.1997

M.P.A. - Int’l Relations

Woodrow Wilson School of Public & Int’l Affairs, Princeton University

B.A. - English Literature

Columbia College of Columbia University

Certificate - Public Policy

Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

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