Hirata’s Sustainability

List of Directors (as of June 26, 2023)
Note:E xtracts from the reasons for selection are provided.
Attendance is based on Board of Directors’ and the Audit & Supervisory Board meeting attendance in fiscal 2022.

Directors
Yuichiro Hirata

Shojiro Hirata

Representative Director

Director

As representative director and president, has led themanagement of the Company and the Group andmade a meaningful contribution to the development of its businesses.

Has made a meaningful contribution to enhancing
the Chinese business, developing the Company’sdevice business, and enhancing its procurementfunction, through his management of a Chinese
subsidiary and the operation of the Business andProcurement divisions.

Naokuni Motoda

Ken ImamuraOutside Director, Full-time Audit andSupervisory Committee Member*

Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member*

OutsideOutside Independent officer

Possesses specialized knowledge and extensive
experience as a director and executive officer ofa financial institution as well as a representative
director of a general corporation. He has served
as a full-time Audit & Supervisory Board member
since 2015.

Possesses specialized knowledge and experience
as a lawyer handling corporate legal affairs. Has
served as an Outside Audit & Supervisory Board
member for the Company since 2015.

Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

Number of shares
owned

13/14–500
Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

291,600

14/14

163,400

14/14

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

13/14

Number of Audit & Supervisory
Board meetings attended

Number of Audit & Supervisory
Board meetings attended

17/18

18/18Status of important concurrent positions
Partner, Okuno & Partners

Shigeru Maeda

Masaru KozakiYasuhiko Endo

Asako Okabe

DirectorDirector

Having previously served as manager mainly ofautomobile sector departments as well as managerof the Business Promotion Division for the entire
Company, has more recently been fulfilling his rolein supervising overall business management.

In addition to having served in the capacity of­representative of a local subsidiary in Singapore forsix years, has made a meaningful contribution tothe business development of the Group globally by,for example, being in charge of affiliate companies.

Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member*

Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member*

Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

1,600

10/10

400

10/10

Outside Independent officer

Outside Independent officer

Possesses specialized knowledge as a certified fraud
examiner (CFE) and a wealth of experience andinsight regarding stocks and management. Has
served as an Outside Audit & Supervisory Board
member for the Company since 2018.

As a certified public accountant (CPA) possessing
specialized knowledge and extensive experience incorporate accounting, Ms. Okabe has served as an
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board member for theCompany since 2022.

Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

Number of shares
owned

14/14

–400

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

10/10

Number of Audit & Supervisory
Board meetings attended

Number of Audit & Supervisory
Board meetings attended

18/18

Shigeharu Nishimura

Hideki Ninomiya

DirectorDirector

He has been in charge of business divisions mainlyin the fields of semiconductor-related production
equipment and panel manufacturing equipment,
and since 2022, he has been serving as Division
Director of the Research and Development
Headquarters, contributing to the creation of new
business models using biological genetic resources(mainly plant genetic resources).

He is mainly responsible for legal affairs, risk
management, and corporate governance. Since
2023, he has been the Head of the Administration
Division, and is responsible for overseeing theadministrative divisions, such as strengthening
the ­governance and management foundation ofthe Group.

Number of sharesowned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

700— (appointed in June 2023)

2,800— (appointed in June 2023)

13/13

Status of important concurrent positions

Status of important concurrent positions

Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member,
Estelle Holdings Co., Ltd.
Outside Director and Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member, Sac’s Bar Holdings Inc.

Representative, Okabe Asako Certified Public
Accountant Office* As a result of the transition to a Company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee organizational design in June 2023, they
became a director and Audit and Supervisory Committee member, shifting from their former position of Audit & Supervisory
Board member.

Executive Officers

Satoru Ogawa

Ryoko Ueda

Outside Director

Outside Director

Outside Independent officer

Outside Independent officer

In addition to extensive experience in the formulation of information strategies and corporate
management at other companies, possesses sophisticated insights into manufacturing and corporate
management. Has served as an outside director ofthe Company since 2021.

Ms. Ueda possesses extensive experience andsophisticated insight as an expert on corporate
governance and ESG. Has served as an outside
director of the Company since 2022.

Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

Number of shares
owned

Number of Board of Directors’
meetings attended

10014/14

20010/10

Status of important concurrent positions

Status of important concurrent positions

Representative Director and President, Wako
Industries Co., Ltd.

Senior Research Fellow, Japan Investor Relations
and Investor Support, Inc.
Member, Certified Public Accountants and Auditing
Oversight Board
Professor, SBI Graduate School
Visiting Professor, Kyoto University

Yuichiro Hirata

Shojiro Hirata

Shigeru Maeda

Masaru Kozaki

President and Chief Executive Officer

Senior Executive Officer

Senior Executive Officer

Managing Executive Officer

Division Director, Procurement
Division, In Charge of Quality Control

Division Director, Business Headquarters

Division Director, Global BusinessHeadquarters

Shigeharu Nishimura

Hideki Ninomiya

Toshiyuki Matsuzaki

Yoshitaka Taniguchi

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Division Director, Research andDevelopment Headquarters

Head of Administration Division

Business Headquarters
Executive General Manager,#1 Business Unit

Business Headquarters
Executive General Manager,#2 Business Unit

Takenori Hirakawa

Kazuhiro Toda

Michinobu Shuto

Jo Yoneda

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Business Headquarters
Executive General Manager,#3 Business Unit

Business Headquarters
Executive General Manager,#4 Business Unit
Head of Device Center

Administration Division
In Charge of Strategy and Corporate
Communications and Head ofCorporate Planning

Administration Division
In Charge of Administration andSecretarial Section

Miho Mori
Executive Officer
Administration Division
In Charge of Governance andInternal Control

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Hirata Integrated Report 2023

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