Jason Brown
New Zealand Hydrogen COUNCIL Board Member
Chief Executive Officer, Mitsui & Co. NZ
Jason joined Mitsui & Co. Ltd. in Japan in 1996 as a "local hire" and has gained broad experience within the Mitsui group in domestic business, export business, SPC management, secondments in Hong Kong and Singapore, as welI as in Mitsui's Human Resources Division in its Tokyo headquarters.
Fluent in Japanese, he brings knowledge in planning, training, governance and stakeholder engagement to the role as well as an international perspective based on his career in the Mitsui group.
Jason's first involvement with Hydrogen was in 2014 when he participated in an internal working group studying Japanese domestic hydrogen opportunities. He actively supports the development of the hydrogen ecosystem in New Zealand.
Director
Japan: Ship-owning SPCs
Singapore: Regency Steel Asia (steel products stockist/trader)
New Zealand: Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Auckland (Vice-Chairman (2022-2023), Chairman (2024-))
Trustee
Auckland Japanese Supplementary School (commencing Oct 2024)