April 27, 2021
To whom it may concern,
Company name:Name ofrepresentative:
Contact person:

Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation
Yujiro Ichihara
Representative Director, President CEO(TSE Code: 4091, First Section of the TSE)
Takayoshi Umehara
General Manager, Public Relations
Phone: 03-5788-8513

Notice regarding the changes of Representative Directors and Executives

At the board of directors’ meeting held on April 27, 2021, Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation(“the Company”) resolved the changes of the Representative Directors and Executives as ofJune 18, 2021.
These changes will be formally finalized through the Company’s Ordinary General Meetingof Shareholders and the board of directors’ meeting which will be held on June 18 , 2021.

1. Reason of the Changes
As the Company enters the new fiscal year under the holding company structure that waslaunched in October last year, the Company aims to further increase corporate value as aglobal company and build a management structure that can maximize the functions andgovernance of the holding company.
2. Change of Representative Directors
NameNew
Toshihiko Hamada
Representative Director,President CEOYujiro Ichihara

Member of the Board,Chairman of the Board

Current
Member of the Board,
Executive Vice President(Aide to the President）
Representative Director,President CEO

3. Profile of New Representative Director
NameToshihiko Hamada
Date of birth
September 28 , 1956
Major Career
April 1981
Joined Nippon Sanso Corporation
July 2002
Executive Vice President responsible for Specialty Gas
Technology, Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
October 2005
Deputy General manager of Semiconductor Gas
Section of Electronics Division, Taiyo Nippon Sanso
Corporation
April 2006
General manager of Semiconductor Gas Section ofElectronics Division, Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation1January 2010

June 2014
June 2016
June 2017
June 2020

October 2020

Number ofshares owned

Subordinate directly to General manager of Electronics
Division and general manager ofBusiness Strategy Promotion Section, Taiyo Nippon
Sanso Corporation
Managing director, Nissan TANAKA Corporation
Senior Managing director, Nissan TANAKA
Corporation
President and representative director, Nissan TANAKA
Corporation
Member of the Board, Executive Vice President(Aide to the President), Taiyo Nippon Sanso
Corporation
Member of the Board, Executive Vice President(Aide to the President), Nippon Sanso Holdings
Corporation

5,500 shares

4. Appointment of Outside Director candidateName
ProfileMiri Hara
June 1988
Director, Hara Jisho Co., Ltd (Current)
October 2017
Representative Certified Public Tax Accountant,
Tax Corporation Yokohama Benten Accounting,Inc.(Current)
June 2020
Outside Director, Secom Co., Ltd (Current)
5. Change of Executives
Name
Kazuyuki Futamata

Satoshi Wataru

Tsutomu Moroishi

New
Vacation of his seat on theBoard.
Senior Managing Executive
Officer and CCO, (Taiyo
Nippon Sanso Corporation
Group CCO), withresponsibility for groupwide
internal control※CCO･･･Chief Compliance
Officer
Senior Executive Officer ofGroup Human Resources &Corporate Secretariat Office,General Manager of HumanResources and CHO

Current
Member of the Board,
Managing Executive Officerand CCO, (Taiyo Nippon
Sanso Corporation GroupCCO), with responsibility forgroupwide internal control<Member of the Board, Senior
Executive Officer, Executive
General Manager of Corporate
Unit and General Manager of
Human Resources, Taiyo Nippon
Sanso Corporation as additional
position><Member of the Board, Senior
Executive Officer, Executive
General Manager of Corporate
Unit and General Manager of
Human Resources, Taiyo Nippon
Sanso Corporation as additional
position>※CHO･･･Chief Health Officer
Senior Executive Officer ofGroup Corporate PlanningOffice

Executive Officer of Group
Corporate Planning Office2

Executive Officer of Group
Human Resources & Corporate
Secretariat Office, General
Manager of Human Resourcesand CHO

Takeshi Miki

Senior Executive officer ofGroup Technological Affairs &Environment Office and CSO

Executive officer of Group
Technological Affairs &Environment Office and CSO< Senior Executive Officer,
Executive General Manager ofTechnological Affairs Unit withresponsibility for Safety, Quality
assurance, Environment andIntellectual property, Taiyo Nippon
Sanso Corporation as additionalposition>< Senior Executive Officer,
Executive General Manager ofTechnological Affairs Unit withresponsibility for Safety, Quality
assurance, Environment andIntellectual property, Taiyo Nippon
Sanso Corporation as additionalposition>※CSO･･･Chief Sustainability
Officer3