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Mitsubishi Electric Announces Changes in Representative Executive Officers,
Executive Officers and Directors, as well as Organization
TOKYO, February 18, 2021 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that, at its general
meeting of the Board of Directors held today, resolved the changes of Representative Executive Officers, Executive Officers
and Directors as well as their division of duties, and also various organizational reforms effective April 1, 2021.
1. Changes of Executive Officers(1) Newly Appointed Executive Officers
In charge of Living Environment & Digital Media
Equipment

Executive Officer

So Suzuki

Executive Officer

Eiichiro Mitani

Executive Officer

Shozui Takeno

Executive Officer

Kunihiko Kaga

In charge of Research & Development, CTO

Executive Officer

Katsuya Furuta

In charge of Domestic Marketing

Executive Officer

Kuniaki Masuda

In charge of General Affairs and Human Resources

In charge of Process & Operation Reform and IT,
Chief Operation DX Officer, CIO
In charge of Information Security and Total
Productivity Management & Environmental
Programs, CISO

(2) Retiring Executive Officers
Representative ExecutiveOfficer
Senior Vice President

Yasuyuki Ito

Senior Vice President

Hiroshi Onishi

Executive Officer

Masahiro Fujita

Executive Officer

Shinji Harada

Executive Officer

Takakazu Murozono

12. Changes of Representative Executive Officers(1) Reason for Changes
Due to resolution of the Board of Directors(2) Changes of Representative Executive Officer
NewRepresentative Executive Officer
Senior Vice President

Current

NameSenior Vice President

Tadashi Matsumoto(3) Name and Career Summary of Newly Appointed Representative Executive Officer (as of April 1, 2021)
Tadashi Matsumoto(Date of Birth: December 7,1958)

March 1981
April 1981
October 2003
April 2005
October 2009
April 2011
April 2013
April 2016
April 2018
April 2020
April 2021

Graduated from Faculty of Law, Hitotsubashi University
Joined Mitsubishi Electric Cooperation
Deputy Senior General Manager, Planning & Administration
Dept. of Living Environment & Digital Media Equipment
GroupSenior General Manager, Planning & Administration Dept. ofLiving Environment & Digital Media Equipment Group
Deputy Senior General Manager, Nakatsugawa Works
Senior General Manager, Nakatsugawa Works
Senior General Manager, Shizuoka Works
Deputy Senior General Manager, Living Environment &Digital Media Equipment Group and Senior General Manager,
Overseas Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration Systems Div.
Executive Officer, Living Environment & Digital Media
Equipment Group
Senior Vice President, Living Environment & Digital Media
Equipment Group
Representative Executive Officer, Senior Vice President,
Building Systems Group

Scheduled Date of Appointment April 1, 2021
as Representative ExecutiveOfficer
Number of the Company’s
14,000Shares Held2

3. Executive Officer Structure and Segregation of Duties (as of April, 2021)※Information in brackets refers to the segregation of duties or occupations as of February 18, 2021.

Representative Executive Officer,
Takeshi Sugiyama
CEOPresident & CEO(Representative Executive Officer, President & CEO)
Representative Executive Officer,
In charge of Export Control, Corporate Strategic Planning
Kei Uruma
Senior Vice President
and Operations of Associated Companies, CSO(Representative Executive Officer, Senior Vice President, In charge of Corporate Strategic Planning and Operations ofAssociated Companies)
Representative Executive Officer,
Tadashi Matsumoto
In charge of Building Systems
Senior Vice President(Senior Vice President, In charge of Living Environment & Digital Media Equipment)
Senior Vice President

Satoshi Matsushita

In charge of Business Innovation, Chief Business DX Officer(Senior Vice President, In charge of Business Innovation)
Senior Vice President

Yoshikazu Miyata

In charge of Factory Automation Systems(Senior Vice President, In charge of Factory Automation Systems)
In charge of Auditing, Legal Affairs & Compliance andSenior Vice President
Jun Nagasawa
Corporate Communication (Sustainability, Public
Relations and Advertising ), CCO(Executive Officer, In charge of Advertising and Domestic Marketing)Senior Vice President

Koichi Orito

In charge of Information Systems & Network Service(Executive Officer, In charge of Information Systems & Network Service)
Executive Officer

Tadashi Kawagoishi

In charge of Accounting and Finance, CFO(Executive Officer, In charge of Accounting and Finance)
Executive Officer

Juichi Shikata

In charge of Purchasing(Executive Officer, In charge of Purchasing)
Executive Officer

Yoshihisa Hara

In charge of Electronic Systems(Executive Officer, In charge of Electronic Systems)
Executive Officer

Atsuhiro Yabu

In charge of Automotive Equipment(Executive Officer, In charge of Information Security and Total Productivity Management & Environmental Programs)
In charge of Government & External Relations, Economic
Executive Officer
Satoshi Kusakabe
Security, Export Control and Intellectual Property(Executive Officer, In charge of Government & External Relations, Economic Security, Export Control and IntellectualProperty)
Executive Officer

Yoji Saito

In charge of Global Strategic Planning & Marketing(Executive Officer, In charge of Global Strategic Planning & Marketing)Executive Officer

Hideki Fukushima

In charge of Public Utility Systems(Executive Officer, In charge of Public Utility Systems)
Executive Officer

Noriyuki Takazawa

In charge of Energy & Industrial Systems(Executive Officer, In charge of Energy & Industrial Systems)

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Executive Officer

Yuzuru Saito

In charge of Semiconductor & Device(Executive Officer, In charge of Semiconductor & Device)
In charge of Living Environment & Digital MediaEquipment(Deputy Senior General Manager, Living Environment & Digital Media Equipment Group and Senior General
Manager, Engineering Dept. of Living Environment & Digital Media Equipment Group)
In charge of Process & Operation Reform and IT, Chief
Executive Officer
Eiichiro Mitani
Operation DX Officer, CIO(Executive Director, Corporate Strategic Planning Div.)In charge of Information Security and Total Productivity
Executive Officer
Shozui Takeno
Management & Environmental Programs, CISO
(Deputy Senior General Manager, Corporate Total Productivity Management & Environmental Programs Group)
Executive Officer

So Suzuki

Executive Officer

Kunihiko Kaga

In charge of Research & Development, CTO(Deputy Senior General Manager, Corporate Research and Development Group)
Executive Officer

Katsuya Furuta

In charge of Domestic Marketing(Senior General Manager, Kansai Branch Office)Executive OfficerKuniaki Masuda

In charge of General Affairs and Human Resources(Senior General Manager, Corporate Human Resources Div.)※ Messrs. Takeshi Sugiyama, Tadashi Kawagoishi, Kei Uruma and Kuniaki Masuda have been determined ascandidates for directors at the meeting of the Nomination Committee held on February 18, 2021.
The final election of the directors is planned at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled at the end ofJune 2021.
4. Career Summary of Newly Appointed Executive Officers (as of February 18, 2021)
So Suzuki(Date of Birth: March 20, 1963)

March 1985
April 1985
April 2012
April 2013
April 2016
April 2018
April 2020

Eiichiro Mitani(Date of Birth: May 4, 1961)

March 1985
April 1985
April 2013
April 2015
April 2018
April 2020
January 2021

Graduated from Second Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Joined Mitsubishi Electric Cooperation
Deputy Senior General Manager, Air-Conditioning &Refrigeration Systems Div.
Mitsubishi Electric Consumer Products Thailand Co., Ltd.
Head OfficeSenior General Manager, Shizuoka Works
Deputy Senior General Manager, Living Environment &Digital Media Equipment Group
Deputy Senior General Manager, Living Environment &Digital Media Equipment Group and Senior General Manager,Engineering Dept.
Graduated from Industrial Management Dept. of Faculty ofScience and Engineering, Waseda University
Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Deputy Senior General Manager, Kobe Works
Senior General Manager, Kobe Works
Deputy Senior General Manager, Information Systems &Network Service Group and Senior General Manager,
Information Systems & Network Service Div.
Deputy Senior General Manager, Information Systems &Network Service Group
Executive Director, Corporate Strategic Planning Div.

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Shozui Takeno(Date of Birth: December 5,1963)

March 1988

Completed Master’s course in Welding Engineering, GraduateSchool of Engineering, Osaka University
Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Deputy Senior General Manager, Design Systems Engineering
CenterSenior General Manager, Design Systems Engineering Center
Deputy Senior General Manager, Corporate Total Productivity
Management & Environmental Programs Group and Senior
General Manager, Design Systems Engineering Center
Deputy Senior General Manager, Corporate Total Productivity
Management & Environmental Programs Group

April 1988
October 2015
April 2016
April 2019
April 2020

Kunihiko Kaga
(Date of Birth: September 22,1964)

March 1990

Completed Master’s course in Physical Engineering, Graduate
School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Deputy Senior General Manager, Air-Conditioning &Refrigeration Systems Works
Senior General Manager, Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration
Systems Works
Deputy Senior General Manager, Corporate Research andDevelopment Group

April 1990
April 2017
April 2018
April 2020

Katsuya Furuta(Date of Birth: May 25, 1960)

March 1983
April 1983
April 2013

Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Saga University
Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Deputy Senior General Manager, Energy System Marketing
Div. of Energy & Industrial Systems Group
Senior General Manager, Nuclear Energy, Advanced Magnetic
Systems Marketing Div.
Senior General Manager, Kansai Branch Office

April 2014
April 2018
Kuniaki Masuda(Date of Birth: July 21, 1964)

March 1987
April 1987
April 2015

Graduated from Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo
Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Senior General Manager, Planning & Administration Div. ofSemiconductor & Device Group
Senior General Manager, Corporate Human Resources Div.

October 2020

5. Organizational Reform (effective April 1, 2021)(1) Establishment of Process & Operation Reform GroupThe Company will establish the Process & Operation Reform Group under the direct control of the President totransform Group operations by leveraging data and digital technology for improved business efficiency andproductivity, including by upgrading mainstream business processes at the core of this transformation andoverseeing related measures concerning IT systems.
(2) Establishment of Corporate Communication GroupThe Company will establish the Corporate Communication Group under the direct control of the President tostrengthen Group-wide sustainability, improve brand value and enhance stakeholder engagement by strengthening
communication regarding sustainability planning and related promotional, public relations and advertising
functions.
###5About Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
With 100 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503)
is a recognized world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and electronic equipment used in
information processing and communications, space development and satellite communications, consumer electronics,
industrial technology, energy, transportation and building equipment. Mitsubishi Electric enriches society with technology
in the spirit of its “Changes for the Better.” The company recorded a revenue of 4,462.5 billion yen (U.S.$ 40.9 billion*) inthe fiscal year ended March 31, 2020. For more information, please visit www.MitsubishiElectric.com*U.S. dollar amounts are translated from yen at the rate of ¥109=U.S.$1, the approximate rate on the Tokyo Foreign
Exchange Market on March 31, 20206