November 28, 2018
Kuraray Co., Ltd.
Announcement of Changes in Executive Personnel
Kuraray Co., Ltd. announces the following changes in executive personnel.
1. Changes in Director Positions(Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in the end of March 2019)
New position
Name
Director and Senior Executive Hitoshi Kawahara
Officer
Director and Senior Executive Keiji Taga
Officer
External Director
Mie Fujimoto

Current position
Senior Executive
Officer
Senior Executive
Officer
External CorporateAuditor

RemarksNew
appointment
Newappointment
Newappointment

2. Changes in Corporate Auditor Positions(Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in the end of March 2019)
New position
External Corporate Auditor

NameTomomi Yatsu

External Corporate Auditor

Kenji Komatsu―

Mie Fujimoto(External Director)―

Yoshimitsu Okamoto

Current position―

RemarksNew
appointment―
Newappointment
External Corporate Resignation
AuditorExternal Corporate Resignation
Auditor

3. Changes in Executive Officer Positions (Excluding Those Concurrently Posted as Directors)(Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in the end of March 2019)
New position
Senior Executive Officer

NameNobuhiko Takai

Executive Officer

Stevan Schott―Executive Officer

Yoji Ikemori

Associate ExecutiveOfficer

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Current position
Executive Officer

Remarks
Change ofposition
Newappointment
Newappointment

4. Directors, Corporate Auditors and Executive Officers after Changes◎ Indicates a new appointment※ Indicates a change in position
No mark indicates either a continuation in office or a reappointment to that office.
Representative Director and President
Masaaki Ito
Representative Director and Primary
Executive Officer
Director and Primary Executive Officer

Sadaaki Matsuyama

Director and Primary Executive OfficerHiroaya Hayase

Director and Senior Executive Officer

Kazuhiro Nakayama

Director and Senior Executive Officer

Kenichi Abe

Director and Senior Executive Officer

Yoshimasa Sano

Kazuhiko Kugawa◎ Director and Senior Executive Officer

Hitoshi Kawahara◎ Director and Senior Executive Officer

Keiji Taga

External Director

Tomokazu Hamaguchi

External Director

Jun Hamano◎ External Director

Mie Fujimoto

Standing Corporate Auditor

Kunio Yukiyoshi

Standing Corporate Auditor

Yukinori Yamane

External Corporate Auditor

Mitsuhiro Nagahama◎ External Corporate Auditor

Tomomi Yatsu◎ External Corporate Auditor

Kenji KomatsuPrimary Executive Officer

Hitoshi Toyoura

Senior Executive Officer

Tsugunori Kashimura

Senior Executive Officer

Matthias Gutweiler※ Senior Executive Officer

Nobuhiko Takai

Executive Officer

Akira Omura

Executive Officer

P.Scott Bening

Executive Officer

Stephen Cox

Executive Officer

Toshinori Tsugaru

Executive Officer

Koichi Takano

Executive Officer

Toshihiro Omatsu

Executive Officer

Hajime Suzuki

Executive Officer

Ikuo Nakamura

Executive Officer

Ichiro Matsuzaki

Executive Officer

Takaharu Kawahara

Executive Officer

Fuyuo Ueyama

Executive Officer

Tomoyuki Watanabe

Executive Officer

Katsumasa Yamaguchi◎ Executive Officer

Stevan Schott◎ Executive Officer

Yoji Ikemori25. Career Summary of New Corporate Auditors(1) New Directors
Name: Hitoshi Kawahara
Date of birth:
March 12, 1962
Educational background: Graduated from Waseda University, School of Political Science andEconomics in March 1984
Career history:
April 1984

Joined Kuraray Co., Ltd.

April 2006

Manager, Resin Sales Department, EVAL Division

April 2010

Manager, Planning and Administration Department, Resin Company

April 2013

Assistant General Manager, Poval Film Division, Vinyl Acetate
CompanyApril 2014

General Manager, Poval Film Division, Vinyl Acetate Company

January 2016

Vice President of Vinyl Acetate Film Company

March 2016

Executive Officer

January 2018

President of Vinyl Acetate Resin Company (Current position)

March 2018

Senior Executive Officer (Current position)

Name: Keiji Taga
Date of birth:
October 16, 1961
Educational background: Graduated from the Kyoto University, Faculty of Economics inMarch 1984
Career history:
April 1984

Joined Kuraray Co., Ltd.

April 2012

Deputy General Manager, Purchasing and Logistics Division

April 2014

General Manager, Medical Division, Functional Materials Company

March 2017

Executive Officer

January 2018

Officer Responsible for Corporate Management Planning Office andCSR Division (Current position)

March 2018

Senior Executive Officer (Current position)

April 2018

General Manager, Corporate Management Planning Office(Current position)

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Name: Mie Fujimoto
Date of birth:※External Director

August 17, 1967

Educational background: Graduated from University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in March1991
Graduated with a LL.M. from the University of California,
Berkeley School of Law in May 2000
Career history:
April 1993

Registered as an attorney-at-law (Daini Tokyo Bar Association)

April 1993

Joined New Tokyo International Law Office (subsequently mergedwith Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa-Foreign Law Joint Enterprise)

January 2003

Partner, New Tokyo International Law Office (subsequently mergedwith Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa-Foreign Law Joint Enterprise)

June 2009

Corporate Auditor, Kuraray Co., Ltd. (Outside) (Current position)

April 2015

Partner, TMI Associates (Current position)

April 2015

Corporate Auditor, SEIKAGAKU CORPORATION (Current position)

April 2016

Corporate Auditor, Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.

April 2016

(Current position)
Corporate Auditor, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.
(Current position)(2) New Corporate Auditor
Name: Tomomi Yatsu
Date of birth:※External Corporate Auditor

May 30, 1960

Educational background: Graduated from Takasaki City University of Economics,
Bachelor of Economics in March 1983
Career history:April 1983

Joined Tokyo Electron Limited.

October 1986

Joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC (Formerly known as SanwaTohmatsu Aoki & Co)

September 1990 Certified Public Accountant, Japan
October 2001

Registered as an attorney-at-law (Tokyo Bar Association)

October 2001

Joined New Tokyo International Law Office (subsequently mergedwith Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa-Foreign Law Joint Enterprise)

June 2009

Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Calbee,Inc.

June 2010

Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Taiko Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd.

March 2012Audit & Supervisory Board Member, KOKUYO Co.,Ltd.

March 2015

Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Yamaha Motor.,Ltd.
(Current Position)

April 2015

Partner, TMI Associates (Current Position)

June 2016
June 2017

Outside Director, SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. (Current Position)
Audit & Supervisory Board Member, IHI Corporation (Current Position)
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Name: Kenji Komatsu※External Corporate Auditor
Date of birth:
March 24, 1953
Educational background: Graduated from the University of Tokyo, College of Arts andSciences in March 1976
Graduate School of Science (Master's Degree) the University ofTokyo in March 1978
Career history:April 1978

Joined Mitsubishi CorporationFebruary 1996

Joined General Electric International Inc.

July 2005

President and CEO, Ecolab K.K. subsidiary of Ecolab Inc.

April 2007

Senior Vice President, Ecolab Inc.

December 2010

Senior Managing Director, Sanden Co., Ltd.

November 2011

Joined Bain Capital Asia, LLC

March 2013

President, Bellsystem 24 Co. Ltd.

March 2016

Chairman, Bellsystem 24

July 2016

Industrial Advisor, COACH A Co., Ltd. (Current position)5