Cymbi Appoints Naoki Yoshida as External Advisor
Cymbi is buying executive-recruiting credibility and contacts from a working search-firm operator at a time it says corporate recruiting has shifted from headcount replacement to strategy tied to management.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Cymbi Inc. appointed Naoki Yoshida, Director, President and COO of Tokyo Executive Search Co., Ltd., as an external advisor effective October 1, 2026. The company says the appointment brings Yoshida's knowledge and industry networks in the human resources domain into its recruiting consulting, RPO, recruiting branding, and HR and organizational development work. Yoshida wrote that he accepted because Cymbi treats recruiting as management strategy.
Yoshida runs Tokyo Executive Search as Director, President and COO and has spent years in executive-level recruiting and organizational transformation. In his comment on the appointment, he wrote that what decides a company's transformation is people, and that Cymbi treats recruiting as an endeavor integrated with management rather than headcount replacement. Cymbi's president, Airi Sugaya, said recruiting is becoming management strategy itself and that Yoshida's knowledge and networks will raise the quality of the firm's client support. Cymbi is based in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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