Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
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Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
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 that caused the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Board to determine that the person should serve as a director. Each of the director nominees listed below exemplifies how our Board values professional experience in business, education, policy and governmental fields, as well as diversity. Our Board believes these strong backgrounds and sets of skills provide the Board, as a whole, with a strong foundation of technical expertise and a wealth of diverse experience in a wide variety of areas to address the current and anticipated needs of the Company as its opportunities and challenges evolve.

| Yoshiaki FujimoriIndependent                            |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |     | Age:73 |
| Senior Executive Advisor, Japan to CVC Capital Partners 
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 July 2016                                               
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 Mr. Fujimori currently serves as Senior Executive Advisor of Japan to CVC Capital Partners, a position he has held since February 2017. He was an advisor to the LIXIL Group Corporation from June 2016 to December 2019 and was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the LIXIL Group Corporation from August 2011 to June 2016. Prior to joining LIXIL, he was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Japan from January 2008 to June 2011. In his 25 years at General Electric Company, beginning in October 1986, he held a variety of positions including Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of a number of Asian and global business divisions, including Medical Systems, Plastics, and Capital. Mr. Fujimori also served as a member of the General Electric’s Corporate Executive Council from 2001 to 2010. He formerly served as a director of Shiseido Company Limited, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Construction Material & Housing Equipment Industries Federation and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings. Mr. Fujimori is currently a director of Blaize, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Japan and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. Mr. Fujimori received an MBA from Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Business and a BA in petroleum engineering from the Tokyo University of Science. 
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 Mr. Fujimori’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his expertise in international business, including developing markets, with a particular emphasis on operations and manufacturing in Japan and