February 7, 2022
Denka Company Limited

Notice Regarding Personnel Changes in Executive Officers
Denka Company Limited (Headquarters: Chuo-ku. Tokyo; President: Toshio Imai; hereinafter “Denka”)
announces that its Board of Directors passed a resolution on changes in Executive Officers.
Details are as follows.
1. Changes in Executive Officers (Effective April 1, 2022）
New Position

Name

Current Position(No change)

President and Chief Executive Officer

Tetsuya Shinmura(No change)

Senior Managing Executive Officer
Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
Purchasing Dept., Logistics Dept.,
Production & Process Technology Dept.,Engineering Dept., Digital Strategy &Innovation Dept.

Hideki WatanabeWill become an advisor
Managing Executive Officer(Will retire as Managing Executive Officer
Chiba Plant
at the end of March.)

Koki Tabuchi(No change)

Toshio ImaiManaging Executive Officer
Elastomers & Infrastructure Solutions
Managing Executive Officer
Supervisor of Environmental Measures
Promotion
Internal Control Dept., Environment andSafety Dept., Sustainability Promotion
Dept., Quality Assurance Dept.
Managing Executive Officer
Chief R&D Officer
New Business Planning & Development
Dept., Research & Development Dept.,Intellectual Property Dept.

Shojiro Watanabe(No change)Nobuyuki Yoshino

Managing Executive Officer
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
New Business Development

Kazuya Tokumoto

Managing Executive Officer
Chiba Plant

Managing Executive Officer
Managing Director, DCHA, DSPL, DAPL

Hideki Takahashi(No change)

Managing Executive Officer
Life Innovation

Kazuo Takahashi

Managing Executive Officer
Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)
Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO)HR Dept.,
Corporate Planning Dept.,
Corporate Communications Dept.,
DCU, DCGManaging Executive Officer
Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)
Corporate Planning Dept., Corporate
Communications Dept., Automotive
Materials & Solutions Dept., DCU, DCG
Denka Value-Up Promotion1

Name

New Position

Current Position

Rimiru Hayashida(No change)

Executive Officer
Accounting & Finance Dept.

Yoshimi Ishiduka(No change)

Executive Officer
Omuta Plant

Kiyoshi Asami

Executive Officer
Executive Officer
Secretary Dept., Administrative Dept., Secretary Dept., Administrative
Legal Dept., HR Dept.
Legal Dept.

Ikuo Ishida(No change)

Executive Officer
Electronics & Innovative Products

Yasuo Nakatomi(No change)

Executive Officer
Gosen Site

Yukio Sasagawa(No change)

Executive Officer
Shibukawa Plant

Mikio Shimizu

Hideki Toya

Dept.,

Executive Officer
President of Denka Performance Elastomer
LLC
Executive Officer
Executive Officer
Assistant to Chief R&D Officer
Assistant to New Business Development
Innovation Center
Innovation Center
Infrastructure & Solutions Research Institute(No change)

Masanobu Kosaka(No change)

Executive Officer
Omi Plant

Kenjiro Ishizuka(No change)

Executive Officer
Polymer Solutions

Executive Officer (Newly appointed)
Managing Director, DCHA, DSPL, DAPLDSPL Deputy Managing Director

Michio Kawamura(Note)<Career Summary>
April 1, 1990 Joined the Company
January 1, 2011 DSPL General Manager
April 1, 2018 DSPL Deputy Managing Director
DCHA: Denka Chemicals Holdings Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
DSPL: Denka Singapore Pte. Ltd.
DAPL: Denka Advantech Pte. Ltd.
DCU: Denka Corporation
DCG: Denka Chemicals G.m.b.H

2. Organizational Reforms (Effective April 1, 2022)
With the aim of strengthening activities to create new businesses for the next generation and sustaining thedevelopment of existing businesses, Denka has decided to establish a " New Business Development " andreorganize the company-wide research and new business development structure as of April 1, 2022.
We have been facilitating open innovation together with industry, academia and government, mainly at
Denka Innovation Center (Machida-shi, Tokyo), and have been engaged in activities to create new businessdevelopment through New Business Planning & Development Dept., Automotive Materials & Solutions
Dept., etc.
In anticipation of the next management plan which will start in FY2023, we have reaffirmed that the goal of2

R&D is to develop new businesses. Accordingly, under the umbrella of the " New Business Development,"
we will place Denka Innovation Center, which is mainly in charge of basic research, and other organizations
that will consistently carry out a series of processes from business conception to concept verification,incubation, and commercialization. In this way, the responsibility and operation structure for new businessdevelopment will be clarified.
In addition, each research department, which has been in charge of specialization of existing businesses, will
be placed under the umbrella of each business unit to clarify the responsibility system and speed up
development.
(1) Establishment of New Business Development
・Establish " New Business Development."(2) Restructuring of Corporate Research and Development
・"New Business Planning & Development Dept." and "Automotive Materials & Solutions Dept." will be
reorganized into "New Business Creation Dept." and "New Business Incubation Dept." and "Research &Development Dept." will be renamed " R&D Management Dept.," and it will be placed under " NewBusiness Development " together with "Intellectual Property Dept."
・"Polymer & Processing Technology Institute" will be abolished and integrated into Chiba Plant "Polymer
Research Dept."(3) Restructuring of Denka Innovation Center・Three Institutes, "Advanced Technologies Research Institute," "Life Innovation Research Institute," and"Infrastructure & Solutions Development Research Institute" of Denka Innovation Center will be abolished,and "Solutions Development Dept." will be renamed "Infrastructure & Solutions Research Dept."
・"Materials Characterization Dept." will be renamed " Analysis Technology Research Dept." and beseparated from Denka Innovation Center, and will be placed under " New Business Development ".

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(4) Restructuring of the R&D structure of existing business units
・Research departments at each plant that are developing existing businesses will be placed under theumbrella of each business unit and each business unit will be responsible for their operation.

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