Mr. Minoru Usui is president of Seiko Epson Corporation. He has shown strong leadership in realigning Epson and seeks to create a company that is indispensable to its customers and society. Mr. Usui joined Epson in 1979 and worked on developing thermal printers desktop calculators. In 1988, he moved to the company’s inkjet printer development department and worked on Epson’s Micro Piezo technology which lead to the creation of Epson’s first Micro Piezo consumer printer. In 1997 he was made general manager in charge of inkjet development and in 2002 was promoted to company director and deputy COO of Epson’s overall printing business. He was appointed President in 2008 and, following the world financial crisis, set about re-defining Epson’s growth strategy and corporate vision by building on the company’s core technologies in printing, projection and sensing.