Kubota : Change of Directors and Executive Officers, Personnel Changes

					November 9, 2022
					Kubota Corporation
	＊＊＊	Changes of Management, Personnel Changes	＊＊＊
Date of issue : January 1, 2023
＜Changes of Management＞
New Position		Current Position		Continued Position	Name
▽Chairman of the Board	Chairman and Representative Director			Masatoshi Kimata
▽Director and Executive Vice President	Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer	GM of Farm and Industrial Machinery Consolidated	Dai Watanabe
			Division,
			GM of Innovation Center
▽Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer	Director and Managing Executive Officer	GM of Research and Development Headquarters,	Hiroto Kimura
			GM of Kubota Global Institute of Technology,
			Deputy GM of Innovation Center,
			GM of Carbon Neutral Promotion Dept.
▽Senior Managing Executive Officer	Managing Executive Officer	GM of Farm and Industrial Machinery Strategy and	Nobuyuki Ishii
			Operations Headquarters,
			GM of ASEAN Farm and Industrial Machinery
			Strategy and Operations Headquarters
▽Managing Executive Officer	Senior Executive Officer,			Hirohiko Arai
GM of Procurement Headquarters	Chairman of Kubota Manufacturing of America
	Corporation,
	President of Kubota Industrial Equipment
	Corporation
▽GM of Quality Assurance Headquarters	GM of Agricultural Tractor Division,	Senior Executive Officer	Koichiro Kan
	President of Kubota Research and Development
	Europe S.A.S.
▽GM of Health and Safety Promotion Headquarters	GM of Procurement Headquarters,	Senior Executive Officer	Mampei Yamamoto
	GM of Sakai Plant

▽Deputy GM of Tractor Division		Senior Executive Officer,	Nobushige Ichikawa
		GM of Compact Tractor Division
▽GM of Environmental Solutions Division	Deputy GM of Environmental Solutions Division	Senior Executive Officer,	Shinichi Fukuhara
		GM of Environmental Engineering Business Unit
▽President of Siam Kubota Corporation Co., Ltd.	GM of Farm and Industrial Machinery Strategy	Senior Executive Officer	Junji Ota
	and Operations Department
▽Executive Vice President of Kubota North	President of Siam Kubota Corporation Co., Ltd.	Senior Executive Officer	Takanobu Azuma
America Corporation
▽GM of Agricultural Tractor Division	Deputy GM of Agricultural Tractor Division	Executive Officer	Tadahito Suzui
▽GM of Harvester and Transplanter Division	President of Kubota Agricultural Machinery	Executive Officer	Kazunori Tani
	(Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
＜New Executive Officers＞
New Position	Current Position	Continued Position	Name
▽ Executive Officer		President of Kubota Europe S.A.S.	Patrick Verheecke
Vice President of Kubota Holdings Europe B.V.
▽ Executive Officer		GM of Materials Business Unit	Sumio Morioka
▽Executive Officer		Vice President of Kubota Holdings Europe B.V.	Shinichi Yamada
▽Executive Officer	GM of Construction Machinery Planning and		Hitoshi Sasaki
GM of Farm and Industrial Machinery Strategy and	Sales Promotion Dept.
Operations Department
▽ Executive Officer		GM of Outdoor Power Equipment Division	Satoshi Suzuki
＜Retirement of Executive Officers＞
New Position	Current Position	Continued Position	Name
▽Advisor	Managing Executive Officer,		Yasuo Nakata
	GM of Quality Assurance Headquarters
▽Advisor	Managing Executive Officer,		Takao Shomura
	GM of Harvester and Transplanter Division

	Managing Executive Officer	President of Kubota Construction Co., Ltd.	Mutsuo Uchida
▽Advisor	Managing Executive Officer,
	Deputy GM of Water and Environment		Kazuhiro Shinabe
	Infrastructure Consolidated Division,
	GM of Environmental Solutions Division
▽Advisor	Managing Executive Officer,		Ryoji Kuroda
	GM of Health and Safety Promotion Headquarters
＜Personnel Changes＞
New Position	Current Position	Continued Position	Name
〔Tractor Division〕
▽GM of Sakai Plant		GM of Agricultural and Construction Machinery	Junji Takeda
		Manufacturing Dept., Sakai Plant
〔Harvester and Transplanter Division〕
▽GM of Combine Harvester Engineering Dept.			Ryosuke Hirai
〔Construction Machinery Division〕
▽GM of Construction Machinery Planning and			Hironori Watanabe
Sales Promotion Dept.
〔Subsidiaries〕
▽President of Kubota Industrial Equipment		President of Kubota Manufacturing of	Brian Arnold
Corporation		America Corporation
▽President of Kubota Agricultural Machinery	GM of Combine Harvester Engineering Dept.		Hiroyuki Kondo
(Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
▽President of Kubota Research and Development			Teruhito Yamauchi
Europe S.A.S.