Board of Directors
As of June 30, 2015

Outside Directors

Nobuo Katsumata

Cynthia Carroll

Sadayuki Sakakibara

George Buckley

2003	Representative Director, President andCEO, Member of the Board, Marubeni
Corporation
2008	Chairman, Member of the Board,Marubeni Corporation2011 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2013	Senior Corporate Advisor, Member ofthe Board, Marubeni Corporation	Senior Corporate Advisor, Marubeni
Corporation (Currently in office)1991	General Manager, Foil Products, Alcan Inc.
1996	Managing Director, Aughinish Alumina
Ltd., Alcan Inc.
1998	President, Bauxite, Alumina andSpeciality Chemicals, Alcan Inc.
2002	President & CEO, Primary Metal Group,Alcan Inc.
2007	CEO, Anglo American plc.
(Retired in April 2013)2013 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

2002	President and Representative Member ofthe Board, Toray Industries, Inc.
2010	Chairman of the Board and Representative Member of the Board, TorayIndustries, Inc.
2013 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2014	Chairman of the Board and Member ofthe Board, Toray Industries, Inc.
2015	Chief Senior Advisor and Chief SeniorCounselor, Toray Industries, Inc.
(Currently in office)1993	Chief Technology Officer, Motors,Drives and Appliances, Emerson ElectricCompany
1994	President, US Electrical Motors, EmersonElectric Company
1997	President, Mercury Marine Division andCorporate Vice President, Brunswick
Corporation
2000	President and Chief Operating Officer,Brunswick Corporation	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,Brunswick Corporation2005	Chairman of the Board, President andChief Executive Officer, 3M Company
2012	Executive Chairman of the Board, 3M
Company (Retired in May 2012)
Chairman, Arle Capital Partners Limited(Currently in office)Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

Hiroaki Nakanishi*

Toshiaki Higashihara*

Takashi Miyoshi

Nobuo Mochida

Chairman & CEOPresident & COO

1970 Joined Hitachi, Ltd.
2003 General Manager, Global Business
Vice President and Executive Officer
2004	Senior Vice President and Executive Officer
2005	Senior Vice President and Executive
Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc.
2006	Executive Vice President and Executive
Officer, Hitachi, Ltd. (Retired inDecember 2006)
2009	Executive Vice President and Executive
Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
2010 President, Hitachi, Ltd.
President and Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2014	Chairman & CEO and Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

1977 Joined Hitachi, Ltd.
2006	Chief Operating Officer, Information &Telecommunication Systems
2007	Vice President and Executive Officer(Retired in March 2008)
2008	President, Hitachi Power Europe GmbH2010	President and Chief Executive Officer,Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
President and Representative Director,Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
2011	Vice President and Executive Officer,Hitachi, Ltd.
2013	Senior Vice President and Executive
Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
2014	President & COO, Hitachi, Ltd.
President & COO and Director,Hitachi, Ltd.

1970 Joined Hitachi, Ltd.
2003	General Manager, Finance
Executive Officer
2004	Senior Vice President and Executive
Officer
Senior Vice President, Executive Officerand Director
2006	Executive Vice President, Executive
Officer and Director
2007	Director (Retired in June 2007)
Chairman of the Board, Hitachi Global
Storage Technologies, Inc.
2008	Executive Vice President and Executive
Officer, Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd.
(Currently Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.)
President, Chief Executive Officer andDirector, Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd.
2009	Executive Vice President and Executive
Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
Executive Vice President, Executive
Officer and Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2012 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

1970 Joined Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
2006	President and Chief Executive Officerand Director, Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
2010	Executive Vice President and ExecutiveOfficer, Hitachi, Ltd. (Retired in March2014)
Chairman of the Board, Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
2013	Director, Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
(Retired in June 2014)2014 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

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Louise Pentland

Harufumi Mochizuki

Philip Yeo

Hiroaki Yoshihara

1997 Admitted as a Solicitor (UK)2001	Senior Legal Counsel, Nokia Networks,Nokia Corporation
2004	Vice President and Head of Legal,Enterprise Solutions, Nokia Corporation2007	Vice President, Acting Chief Legal Officerand Head of IP Legal, Nokia Corporation
2008	Senior Vice President and Chief Legal
Officer, Nokia Corporation2009	Admitted to New York State BarAssociation2011	Executive Vice President and Chief Legal
Officer, Nokia Corporation(Retired in May 2014)2015 	General Counsel, PayPal, eBay Inc.
(Currently in office)Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

2002	Director-General for Commerce andDistribution Policy, Minister’s Secretariat,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industryof Japan (“METI”)
2003	Director-General, Small and Medium
Enterprise Agency, METI
2006	Director-General, Agency for Natural
Resources and Energy, METI
2008	Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade andIndustry of Japan
2010	Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japan(Retired in September 2011)
Senior Adviser to the Board, Nippon Life
Insurance Company (Retired in April 2013)2012 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2013	President and Representative Director,
Tokyo Small and Medium Business
Investment & Consultation Co., Ltd.
(Currently in office)1970	Joined Ministry of Defense of Singapore
1979	Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defenseof Singapore
1986	Chairman, Economic Development Boardof Singapore
2001	Chairman, Agency for Science,
Technology and Research of Singapore
2007	Senior Advisor for Science and Technology
to the Ministry of Trade & Industry,
Singapore (Retired in September 2008)
Special Advisor in Economic ­Development,
Prime Minister’s Office, Governmentof Singapore (Retired in August 2011)
Chairman, SPRING Singapore(Currently in office)2012 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

1978 Joined Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.
1996	National Managing Partner, the Pacific
Rim Practice, KPMG LLP
1997 The Board Member, KPMG LLP
2003	Vice Chairman and Global Managing
Partner, KPMG International (Retired inApril 2007)2014 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

NameReasons for appointment

Nobuo Katsumata

Mr. Katsumata was selected as an outside director, since he was expected to reinforce the functional aspects of the Company’s Board of Directors bysupervising the execution of duties by Executive Officers and others from an independent perspective based on his rich experience and insight as the top
executive of a major global company.

Cynthia Carroll

Ms. Carroll was selected as an outside director, since she was expected to reinforce the functional aspects of the Company’s Board of Directors bysupervising the execution of duties by Executive Officers and others from an independent perspective as well as reflecting her global viewpoint to theCompany’s Board of Directors based on her rich experience and insight as the top executive of major global companies.

Sadayuki Sakakibara

Mr. Sakakibara was selected as an outside director, since he was expected to reinforce the functional aspects of the Company’s Board of Directors bysupervising the execution of duties by Executive Officers and others from an independent perspective based on his rich experience and insight as the top
executive of a major global company.

George Buckley

Mr. Buckley was selected as an outside director, since he was expected to reinforce the functional aspects of the Company’s Board of Directors bysupervising the execution of duties by Executive Officers and others from an independent perspective as well as reflecting his global viewpoint to theCompany’s Board of Directors based on his rich experience and insight as the top executive of major global companies.

Louise Pentland

Ms. Pentland was selected as an outside director, since she was expected to reinforce the functional aspects of the Company’s Board of Directors bysupervising the execution of duties by Executive Officers and others from an independent perspective as well as reflecting her global viewpoint to theCompany’s Board of Directors based on deep insight into corporate legal matters and corporate governance gained through her rich experience as
the chief legal officer of major global companies.

Harufumi Mochizuki

Mr. Mochizuki was selected as an outside director, since he was expected to reinforce the functional aspects of the Company’s Board of Directors bysupervising the execution of duties by Executive Officers and others from an independent perspective based on his rich experience and insight in the areaof public administration, etc.

Philip Yeo

Mr. Yeo was selected as an outside director, since he was expected to reinforce the functional aspects of the Company’s Board of Directors by supervising
the execution of duties by Executive Officers and others from an independent perspective as well as reflecting his global viewpoint to the Company’s Boardof Directors based on his broad experience and insight in such areas as public administration.

Hiroaki Yoshihara

Mr. Yoshihara was selected as an outside director, since he was expected to reinforce the functional aspects of the Company’s Board of Directors bysupervising the execution of duties by Executive Officers and others from an independent perspective as well as reflecting his global viewpoint to theCompany’s Board of Directors based on his rich experience and insight in the area of global corporate management and accounting.

Note: Directors are listed by position and in Japanese alphabetical order within each grouping.
* Denotes directors who serve concurrently as executive officers.
Each committee is composed of the following members (Chair underlined):
Nominating Committee: Nobuo Katsumata, Sadayuki Sakakibara, Harufumi Mochizuki, Hiroaki Nakanishi
Audit Committee: Takashi Miyoshi, Nobuo Katsumata, Harufumi Mochizuki, Hiroaki Yoshihara, Nobuo Mochida
Compensation Committee: Harufumi Mochizuki, Nobuo Katsumata, Sadayuki Sakakibara, Toshiaki Higashihara

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