May 12, 2021
Nihon-Nohyaku Ltd.
Yosuke Tomoi
Representative Director
Code No. 4997 TOPX
Contact: Motohiro Nagai
General Affairs & Legal Department
Administration Division
Call 03-6361-1400
Notice of Personnel Changes
１．Date of Official Announcement
June 23, 2021
２．Personnel Changes（１）Candidate for Directors（Excluding directors who are Audit & Supervisory
Committee Members）（Will be discussed at the 122 nd Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders heldon June23, 2021. Take office from the same day.）
NameYosuke Tomoi

Koji Shishido

Hirohisa Yano

Kozo Machiya

Hiroshi YamanoiHideo Yamamoto
Hiroyuki Iwata

New Position
・Representative Director, President
・Representative Director and Senior Managing
Executive Officer
・Division Manager of Production Division
・In charge of Environment Safety Dept.
・Director and Managing Executive Officer
・Division Manager of Administration Division
・ Responsible for Osaka Plant and General
Manager of Osaka plant・In charge of Market Development Division・Responsible for special missions

・Director and Managing Executive Officer
・Division Manager of Research Division

・Director and Senior Executive Officer
・Division Manager of Industrial &Pharmaceuticals Sales Division
・Director and Senior Executive Officer
・Division Manager of Domestic Sales Division
・Director and Senior Executive Officer
1Active
Position
Same as on
the left
Same as on
the left

Same as on
the left・Senior
ExecutiveOfficer・Division
Manager ofResearchDivision
Same as on
the left
Same as on
the left・Director・Division Manager of Corporate
Planning Division
・In charge of Overseas Divisionand Senior
Executive
Officer
・Division
Manager ofCorporate
PlanningDivision
Same as on
Akio Kohri
Directorthe left
Same as on
Yasunori Matsui
Director (Outside)
the left
Kazuyoshi
Same as on
Director (Outside)
Tachibana
the left（ Note ） Yasunori Matsui and Kazuyoshi Tachibana are candidates for outside
directors as stipulated in Article 2, Item 15 of the Companies Law.
（Reference）Board Members who are also members of Audit & Supervisory Committee
NamePosition
Director, Audit &Yoshiaki
Supervisory Committee
Higashino
Member(full-time)
Director, Audit &HaruhikoSupervisory Committee
Tomiyasu
MemberDirector, Audit &Iwao Toigawa
Supervisory Committee
Member (Outside)
Director, Audit &Chizuko Nakata
Supervisory Committee
Member (Outside)
Director, Audit &Yoshiko Oshima
Supervisory Committee
Member (Outside)（Note）Iwao Toigawa, Chizuko Nakata and Yoshiko Oshima are outside directors asstipulated in Article 2, Item 15 of the Companies Law.
（２）Retiring Directors（Excluding directors who are Audit & Supervisory CommitteeMembers. Scheduled to take office from June 23, 2021.）（Position After
Name
Active PositionRetirement）
・ Director and Managing Executive
Hirofumi
Officer
Senior Advisor
・In charge of Research Division
Tomita・Responsible for special missions2（３）Executive Officer（Excluding those who serve concurrently as directors. Scheduledto take office from June 23, 2021.）
NameJeffrey R.
JohnsonJunjiroInoshita
ShirouTakahashi
Kazuhiko
MotobaTetsuyoshi
NishimatsuYoshitaka
Taniyama

Hiroko Harada

TadashiTanimoto

HiroshiOkumuraManfredHilweg

New Position
・Managing Executive Officer
・President of Nichino America,Inc.
・Senior Executive Officer
・Division Manager of Market
Development Division
・Senior Executive Officer
・President of
Nichino Ryokka Co., Ltd・Senior Executive Officer
・Division Manager of Overseas
Division・Senior Executive Officer
・Deputy Division Manager ofResearch Division and General
Manager of Research Center（Research Division）
・Executive Officer
・Deputy Division Manager of
Production Division andGeneral Manager of SCM
Dept.( Production Division)・Responsible for special
missions
・Executive Officer
・General Manager of HumanResources
Dept.(AdministrationDivision)・Executive Officer
・Deputy Division Manager ofDomestic Sales Division andGeneral Manager of Smart
Agriculture Promotion
Dept.(Domestic Sales Division)・Executive Officer
・General Manager of Marketing
Dept.(Market DevelopmentDivision)・Executive Officer
・Managing Director of Nichino
Europe Co., Ltd.

Active position
・Senior Executive Officer
・President of Nichino America,
Inc.
Same as on the left

Same as on the left

Same as on the left
・Executive Officer
・Deputy Division Manager ofResearch Division andGeneral Manager of ResearchCenter（Research Division）

Same as on the left

Same as on the left

・General Manager of Smart
Agriculture PromotionDept.(Domestic SalesDivision)
・General Manager ofMarketing Dept.(MarketDevelopment Division)・Managing Director of Nichino
Europe Co., Ltd.
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