News
Announcement of Candidates for Directors
Aug 18, 2023
TechnoPro Holdings, Inc. today announced candidates for its Directors to be recommended at the 18th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (scheduled for September 28, 2023).
As of September 28, 2023 (Candidate for Directors and Directors to Retire)
(1) Candidates for Directors (excluding those who are Audit & Supervisory Committee Members)
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Takeshi Yagi | Current | President, Representative Director and CEO |
| New | Ditto | |
| Gaku Shimaoka | Current | Vice President, Representative Director and COO |
| New | Ditto | |
| Koichiro Asai | Current | Senior Managing Director |
| New | Ditto | |
| Toshihiro Hagiwara | Current | Managing Director and CFO |
| New | Ditto | |
| Mitsutoshi Takao | Current | Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
| New | Outside Director | Kazuhiko Yamada | Current | Outside Director |
| New | Ditto | |
| Harumi Sakamoto | Current | Outside Director |
| New | Ditto | |
| Shoko Takase | Current | Outside Director |
| New | Ditto | |
(2) Candidate for a Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Masatoshi Deguchi | Current | ー |
| New | Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) | |
(Note)1. Please see the Attachment for career summary of the candidate for a new Director above.2. Hitoshi Madarame and Rumiko Tanabe, elected as Directors (Audit and Supervisory Committee Members) on September 29, 2022, are not subject to re-election.
(3) Directors to retire
| Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Yasuji Nishio | Current | Director and Chairman |
| New | ー | |
| Tsunehiro Watabe | Current | Outside Director and Chief Independent Outside Director |
| New | ー | |
| Mitsutoshi Takao | Current | Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
| New | Outside Director | |
(4) The planned appointment of 1) the chairperson of the Board of Directors, 2) the chairperson of the Audit & Supervisory Committee and 3) the chief Independent Outside Director, and the planned composition of each committee
Once the above candidates for directors are approved at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, the Board of Directors and the Audit & Supervisory Committee, which are scheduled to be held immediately after the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, shall make resolutions such as the appointment of the chairperson of the Board of Directors and the chairperson of the Audit and Supervisory Committee. The chairperson of the Board of Directors and the composition of each committee will be as follows.
[underlines indicate chairperson of each committee]
| Chairperson of the Board of Directors and Chief Independent Outside Director | Mitsutoshi Takao |
| Audit & Supervisory Committee | Hitoshi Madarame, Rumiko Tanabe, Masatoshi Deguchi |
| Nomination and Compensation Committee | Mitsutoshi Takao, Kazuhiko Yamada, Shoko Takase |
| Independent Officer Committee | Mitsutoshi Takao, Kazuhiko Yamada, Shoko Takase, Harumi Sakamoto, Rumiko Tanabe, Masatoshi Deguchi |
(Attachment) Career Summary of Candidate for a New Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)
| Name (Date of Birth) | Masatoshi Deguchi (November 29, 1958) | |
|---|---|---|
| Career Summary | April 1982 | Joined Sumitomo Corporation |
| April 1993 | Assistant General Manager of Nonferrous Metals, Chemicals, and Fuels Accounting Dept., ditto | |
| September 1994 | Assistant General Manager of Accounting Controlling Dept. No. 2, ditto | |
| February 1996 | Assistant General Manager of Treasury & Accounting Dept. (New York), Sumitomo Corporation of America | |
| July 2002 | Assistant General Managers of Corporate Finance Dept. and Investor Relations Dept., Sumitomo Corporation | |
| April 2008 | Assistant to General Manager for Asia, ditto Director, Sumitomo Corporation Asia (Singapore) | |
| April 2012 | Corporate Officer, Assistant to General Manager for Asia & Asia Corporate Unit Head of Sumitomo Corporation of Asia Group, ditto | |
| April 2013 | Corporate Officer and General Manager of Planning & Administration Dept., Kansai, ditto | |
| April 2014 | Corporate Officer and General Manager of Global Strategy & Coordination Dept., ditto | |
| April 2016 | Corporate Officer and General Manager of Internal Auditing Dept., ditto | |
| April 2017 | Executive Officer and General Manager of Internal Auditing Dept., ditto | |
| April 2019 | Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Precision Products CO., LTD. | |
| June 2019 | Director and Managing Executive Officer, ditto | |
| June 2020 | Representative Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, and General Manager of Corporate Management Division, ditto | |
| June 2022 | Director, Executive Vice President, Loginet Japan East Co., LTD. | |
| No. of shares of the Company held* | 0 shares | |
* No. of shares of the Company held states the effective number of shares held by each candidate as of June 30, 2023
Note: This document is provided for informational purpose only. If there are any discrepancies between this and the original, the original Japanese document prevails.