Hideaki Tanaka is currently Operating Officer, General Manager, Hydrogen Business Department in ENEOS Corporation. His responsibility is to conduct priority measures as follows to develop hydrogen supply chain in Japan with stability and large scale leveraging ENEOS’s existing refinery assets:
Cooperate with overseas countries where CO2-free hydrogen is abundant to establish stable hydrogen supply to Japan.

• Develop supply route to power plants and steel mills from the refineries to generate hydrogen demand with large scale.
• Develop hydrogen incorporated energy platform that enables local production for local consumption to pursue synergy with multiple kinds of renewable energy.
• Develop FCV network targeting commercial vehicles in addition to private vehicles in order to establish scale economy for the hydrogen gas station business.

Hideaki Tanaka received the B.E. and M.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1989 and 1991, respectively, and received MBA degree from Amos Tuck School of Business in 1999. He joined Toa Nenryo Kogyo in 1991. His former positions in ENEOS are General Manager of Manufacturing Project Department, Refinery Manager of Osaka Refinery and General Manager of Mechanical Engineering Department. He has experience working for ExxonMobil R&S (Fairfax) in 2004-2007 as Asia Pacific Advisor, Supply Chain Optimization, Global Logistics Optimization, seconded from TonenGeneral Corporation as expatriate.