November 25, 2020
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 2021)
New position
Outside Director―NameKiyoto Ido

Current position―

Tomokazu Hamaguchi Outside DirectorRemarks
New
appointment
Resignation(Reference)
Kuraray previously announced the following changes in representative director positions inOctober 2020. (Scheduled effective date: January 1, 2021)
New position
Chairman and Director

Name
Masaaki Ito

President andRepresentative Director

Hitoshi Kawahara

Current position
President andRepresentative
Director
Director andManaging
Executive Officer

2. Changes in Corporate Auditor Positions(Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in the end of March 2021)
New position
Standing Corporate Auditor―Name
Naoya Uehara

Current position
Executive Officer

Yukinori YamaneStandingAuditor

1Remarks
New
appointment
Corporate Resignation

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 2021)
New position
Managing Executive Officer

NameToshinori Tsugaru

Current position
Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Junichi Fujiwara

Associate ExecutiveOfficer
Executive Officer

Remarks
Change ofpositionNew
appointment
Resignation

Executive Officer

Resignation

Executive Officer

Resignation―
Ikuo Nakamura(Scheduled to be transferred toKurashiki Central Hospital)―
Katsumasa Yamaguchi(Scheduled to be appointed toPresidentofKurashiki
Kokusai Hotel)
Standing Corporate Auditor
Naoya Uehara
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.
Chairman and Director
Masaaki Ito
President and Representative Director

Hitoshi Kawahara

Representative Director and Senior
Managing Executive Officer
Director and Senior Managing Executive
Officer
Director and Managing Executive
Officer
Director and Managing Executive
Officer
Director and Managing Executive
Officer
Director and Managing Executive
Officer
Outside Director

Hiroaya Hayase

Outside Director

Keiko Murata

Outside Director

Satoshi Tanaka◎ Outside Director

Yoshimasa Sano
Kenichi Abe
Keiji Taga
Matthias GutweilerNobuhiko Takai
Jun Hamano

Kiyoto Ido

Standing Corporate Auditor

Kazuhiro Nakayama◎ Standing Corporate Auditor

Naoya Uehara

External Corporate Auditor

Mitsuhiro Nagahama

External Corporate Auditor

Tomomi Yatsu

External Corporate Auditor

Kenji Komatsu

Senior Managing Executive Officer

Hitoshi Toyoura

Senior Managing Executive Officer

Tsugunori KashimuraManaging Executive Officer

Akira Omura
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Managing Executive Officer

Toshihiro Omatsu※ Managing Executive Officer

Toshinori Tsugaru

Executive Officer

P. Scott Bening

Executive Officer

Stephen Cox

Executive Officer

Koichi Takano

Executive Officer

Hajime Suzuki

Executive Officer

Takaharu Kawahara

Executive Officer

Fuyuo Ueyama

Executive Officer

Tomoyuki Watanabe

Executive Officer

Stevan R. Schott

Executive Officer

Yoji Ikemori

Executive Officer

Satoru Fujinami

Executive Officer

Kazushige Sakamoto

Executive Officer

Koichi Daifuku◎ Executive Officer

Junichi Fujiwara

5. Career Summary of New Director and Corporate Auditor(1) New Director
Name: Kiyoto Ido
Date of birth:
October 30, 1950
Educational background: BA. in Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Career history:
April 1973

Entered the Ministry of Finance (MOF)

March 1980

Consul, Consulate-General of Japan, Frankfurt in Germany

July 1989

Deputy General Manager, Finance Dept., Inter-American Development
Bank, Washington, D.C.

July 1998

Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, MOF
Deputy Director-General, International Bureau, MOF

June 1999

Minister, Embassy of Japan, Washington, D.C

July 2002

Deputy Director-General, International Bureau, MOF

July 2004

Director-General, International Bureau, MOF

August 2006

Executive Director, Bank of Japan

April 2011

Vice Chairman, Institute for International Economic Studies(Current position)

June 2014

Outside Board Member, Nidec Corporation

3(2) New Corporate Auditor
Name: Naoya Uehara
Date of birth:January 15, 1959Educational background: Graduated from Osaka University, Faculty of Economics inMarch 1982
Career history:
April 1982

Joined Kuraray Co., Ltd.

April 2009
April 2013

Senior Manager, Corporate Control Department
Deputy General Manager, Corporate Management Planning Division

June 2014
January 2018

Deputy General Manager, GLS Division, Kuraray America, Inc.
Vice President, Kuraray Europe GmbH (Current position)

March 2020

Executive Officer (Current position)4