Taikisha : Notice of Personnel Changes

（Translation）April 1, 2023

Notice of Personnel Changes

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Company name:	Taikisha Ltd
Representative:	Masashi Osada
	Representative Director,
	President Corporate Officer
Contact:	Public Relations Section
	Corporate Planning Dept.
	Corporate Planning Headquarters

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Taikisha Ltd. (the "Company") announces the following personnel changes expected to be effective on June 29, 2023. These changes are to be discussed and officially determined at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting scheduled on June 29, 2023.

１．Changes of Directors /Audit & Supervisory Board Members (as of June 29, 2023) （１）Candidates for New Directors

	Name	Current Position
	Yukinori Hamanaka	Managing Corporate Officer, Chief General Manager, Paint Finishing
		System Division
	Tadashi Sobue	Managing Corporate Officer, Chief General Manager, Green
		Technology System Division
（２）Retiring Directors
	Name	Current Position
	Koji Kato	Director
	Kazuhide Hayakawa	Director
	Nobuko Mizumoto	Outside Director

Koji Kato will be appointed to an Executive Adviser and Kazuhide Hayakawa will be appointed as Adviser.

（３）Candidate for a New Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Name	Current Position
Junichi Sakurai	―

Junichi Sakurai is an candidate for Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member defined in Article 2, Item 16 of the Companies Act.

（４）Retiring Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Name	Current Position
Toshiyuki Hanazawa	Outside Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member

The Company will continue to maintain the diversity and appropriate size (number of members) of the Board of Directors to ensure that its decision-making and management supervisory functions work most effectively and efficiently in light of the business environment surrounding the Company.

【Reference】

Organizational Structure of Directors, Audit & Supervisory Board Members, and Corporate Officers (as of June 29, 2023)

【Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members】

Positions	Name	Assignments
Representative Director,	Masashi Osada
President Corporate Officer
Representative Director,	Yasushi Nakajima	Chief Executive, Administrative Management
Executive Corporate Officer		Headquarters
Director, Executive Corporate	Masanori Nakagawa	Chief Executive, Corporate Planning
Officer		Headquarters, in charge of Sustainability
		Promotion, and General Manager, Intellectual
		Property Dept.
Director, Managing Corporate	Yukinori Hamanaka	Chief General Manager, Paint Finishing System
Officer		Division
Director, Managing Corporate	Tadashi Sobue	Chief General Manager, Green Technology
Officer		System Division
Outside Director	Hirokazu Hikosaka
Outside Director	Kiyotaka Fuke
Outside Director	Masasuke Kishi
Full-time Audit & Supervisory	Makoto Wakida
Board Member
Full-time Audit & Supervisory	Hiroyuki Matsunaga
Board Member
Outside Full-time Audit &	Junichi Sakurai
Supervisory Board Member
Outside Audit & Supervisory	Shigeo Kobayashi
Board Member
Outside Audit & Supervisory	Nobuyuki Soda
Board Member
【Corporate Officers】
Managing Corporate Officer	Shuichi Yoshitake	General Manager, Osaka Branch Office, Green
		Technology System Division
Managing Corporate Officer	Tadashi Inoue	Senior General Manager, Engineering
		Supervisory Dept., Paint Finishing System
		Division
Managing Corporate Officer	Takuji Fukunaga	Senior General Manager, Sales and Marketing
		Dept., and Senior General Manager, Global
		Business Management Dept., Paint Finishing
		System Division

Managing Corporate Officer	Tsuyoshi Tamura	General Manager, Tokyo Branch Office, Green
		Technology System Division
Managing Corporate Officer	Shogo Yoshida	Senior General Manager, Sales and Marketing
		Dept., Green Technology System Division
Corporate Officer	Shigeru Mikami	President, Vege-Factory Co., Ltd., Green
		Technology System Division
Corporate Officer	Motoo Kikuchi	General Manager, Preparatory Office of
		Purchasing Dept., Corporate Planning
		Headquarters
Corporate Officer	Koichi Ishisaki	Senior General Manager, Development Dept.,
		Paint Finishing System Division
Corporate Officer	Yoshihiro Matsuda	Vice General Manager, Osaka Branch Office
		and General Manager, Corporate Sales Dept.,
		Osaka Branch Office, Green Technology System
		Division
Corporate Officer	Eisaku Imai	Vice Executive, Corporate Planning
		Headquarters and General Manager, Information
		Systems Dept.
Corporate Officer	Seiji Takeshita	General Manager, Internal Audit Dept.
Corporate Officer	Masaki Yamashita	Senior General Manager, Global Business
		Management Dept., Green Technology System
		Division
Corporate Officer	Yasuhiro Sato	President, Taikisha (Thailand) Co.Ltd., Green
		Technology System Division
Corporate Officer	Mamoru Irimajiri	General Manager, Tohoku Branch Office, Green
		Technology System Division
Corporate Officer	Yutaka Onozawa	President, Taikisha Engineering India Pvt.Ltd.,
		Paint Finishing System Division
Corporate Officer	Junzo Sappa	Vice Executive, Administrative Management
		Headquarters and General Manager, Global HR
		Strategy Office
Corporate Officer	Koichi Yogoro	General Manager, Kyushu Branch Office and
		General Manager, Semiconductor Project
		Office, Green Technology System Division
Corporate Officer	Takuya Mori	President, Nicomac Taikisha Clean Rooms
		Private Limited and General Manager, Business
		Strategy Promotion Office for India and South
		Asia, Green Technology System Division
Corporate Officer	Yasuaki Nakata	General Manager, Chubu Branch Office, Green
		Technology System Division
Corporate Officer	Shunji Yaegashi	Vice General Manager, Tokyo Branch Office,
		and General Manager, Corporate Engineering
		Dept., Green Technology System Division
Corporate Officer	Kozo Kubota	Senior General Manager, Engineering
		Supervisory Dept., Green Technology System
		Division
		End of document

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【Career summary of Candidates for New Directors】

Name	Yukinori Hamanaka
Date of birth	December 10, 1958
Career summary	April 1981
	April 2010
	April 2013
	April 2015
	June 2015
	April 2016
	April 2018
	June 2018
Name	Tadashi Sobue
Date of birth	December 16, 1964
Career summary	April 1987
	April 2011
	April 2013
	March 2017
	April 2019
	April 2021
	May 2022

Joined the Company

Corporate Officer, General Manager, Office 1, Paint Finishing System Division

Senior Corporate Officer, Senior General Manager, Engineering Dept., Paint Finishing System Division

Senior Corporate Officer, Vice Chief General Manager, Paint Finishing System Division, and Senior General Manager, Sales and Engineering Dept., Paint Finishing System Division

Director, Senior Corporate Officer, Vice Chief General Manager, Paint Finishing System Division, and Senior General Manager, Sales and Engineering Dept., Paint Finishing System Division Director, Managing Corporate Officer, Vice Chief General Manager, Paint Finishing System Division

Director, Managing Corporate Officer, Vice Chief General Manager of, Paint Finishing System Division and President, TKS Industrial Company

Managing Corporate Officer, Vice Chief General Manager, Paint Finishing System Division

Joined the Company

Construction General Manager, Engineering Dept., Chubu Branch Office, Green Technology System Division

General Manager, Engineering Dept., Tohoku Branch Office, Green Technology System Division

Director, Taikisha(Thailand)Co.Ltd.

Senior General Manager, Engineering Dept., Osaka Branch Office, Green Technology System Division

Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Engineering Supervisory Dept., Green Technology System Division Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Engineering Supervisory Dept. and Senior General Manager, Global Engineering Supervisory Dept., Green Technology System Division

【Career summary of Candidates for a New Audit & Supervisory Board Member】

Name	Junichi Sakurai
Date of birth	October 22, 1961
Career summary	April 1984	Joined Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd. (current Sompo
		Japan Insurance Inc.)
	April 2018	Executive Officer, Head of Hokkaido Division, Sompo Japan
		Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. (current Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.)
	April 2020	Executive Officer, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. (current Sompo
		Japan Insurance Inc.) (retired in March 2022)
		President and Representative Director of Sompo Risk Management
		Inc. (retired in March 2023)