Norio Nakajima
Representative Director and President
2020 – Present
6 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Nakajima took over as president in 2020 and has led Murata's Vision 2030 strategy, which shifts the company's growth focus from smartphone-dependent passive components toward automotive electronics, e-mobility power solutions, and IT infrastructure components. He opened a dedicated automotive R&D center in Yokohama in December 2020 and has emphasized geographic diversification of manufacturing capacity beyond China amid rising trade and supply-chain risk.
Legacy
Under Nakajima, Murata has worked to reduce its historical dependence on smartphone-cycle demand by building out higher-reliability component lines for electric vehicles and data-center power applications, markets that carry longer design-in cycles and more stable demand than consumer electronics. He has also had to navigate a persistent slowdown in smartphone unit volumes globally, a market that historically drove the majority of Murata's MLCC demand, making the pivot toward automotive and data-center customers a matter of long-term revenue stability rather than simple diversification. He has also overseen expanded capital investment in Southeast Asian manufacturing sites, part of a broader effort across Japanese electronics makers to reduce single-country manufacturing concentration following pandemic-era supply disruptions.