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Renesas Electronics Announces Executive Personnel Changes
[February 27, 2018]

Renesas Electronics Announces Executive Personnel Changes


Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today made the following changes concerning Members of the Board, Corporate Auditors, and Corporate Officers. The changes were approved at a meeting of the Board of Directors on February 27, 2018. The changes in Members of the Board and Corporate Auditors will become effective following the adoption of the resolutions at the 16th Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting to be held on March 29, 2018. The change in its Corporate Officers will become effective as of March 29, 2018.

Note: Asterisks (*) indicate position currently held.

  1. Outline of the Change in Members of the Board (As of March 29, 2018)
    (1) New Member of the Board
    Hidetoshi Shibata, Executive Vice President, Member of the Board and CFO

    (2) Retiring Member of the Board
    Kenichi Hattori, Outside Director*
  2. Outline of the Change in Corporate Auditors (As of March 29, 2018)
    (1) New Corporate Auditor
    Noboru Yamamoto, Outside Corporate Auditor (part time)

    (2) Retiring Member of the Board
    Yoshinobu Shimizu, Outside Corporate Auditor (part time) *
  3. Outline of the Change in Corporate Officers (As of March 29, 2018)
    (1) New Corporate Officer
    Shingo Yamamoto, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Automotive Solution Business Unit

    (2) Retiring Corporate Officer
    Ryuji Omura, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Automotive Solution Business Unit *
    (Note) Mr. Omura will assume the role of Fellow effective March 29, 2018.
  4. Brief Biographies of the Newly Appointed Member of the Board, Corporate Auditor and Corporate Officer

[New Member of the Board]





Name

(Date of Birth)

  Brief Biography
Hidetoshi Shibata April 1995   Joined Central Japan Railway Company
(November 16, 1972) August 2001 Joined MKS Partners Limited as Principal
August 2004 Partner, MKS Partners Limited
October 2007 Joined Global Private Equity, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd as Managing Director

September 2009

Joined Investment Group, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan as Managing Director

June 2012

Executive Managing Director, Investment Group, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan

October 2013

Member of the Board, Renesas Electronics Corporation

November 2013

Executive Vice President, Member of the Board and CFO
 

June 2016

Executive Vice President and CFO, Renesas Electronics Corporation (to the present)
 

[New Corporate Auditor]

Name

(Date of Birth)

  Brief Biography
Noboru Yamamoto April 1986   Joined Mazda Motor Corporation
(November 21, 1962) May 1989 Joined Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.
Feb 2002 Joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (News - Alert) Financial Advisory Service Ltd. (currently, PwC Advisory LLC) as Managing Director

April 2003

Joined Lazard Frères K.K. as Managing Director

November 2006

Joined Nikko City Group Securities Co., Ltd. (currently, Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc.), Investment Banking Unit, as Managing Director

October 2011

Joined BNP Paribas, Tokyo Branch, Investment Banking Division, as Co-head

June 2016

Outside Director, Hitachi (News - Alert) Koki Co., Ltd. (to the present)

September 2016

Representative Director, Representative Partner & CEO, XIB Capital Partners, Inc. (to the present)
 

January 2017

Senior Advisor, CLSA Capital Partners K.K. (to the present)
 

[New Corporate Officer]

Name

(Date of Birth)

  Brief Biography
Shingo Yamamoto April 1991   Sales & Marketing, Crown Leasing Corporation
(August 4, 1966) January 2007 Corporate Officer and Quality Leader, GE Fleet Services Corporation

August 2007

GE Capital Japan Integration Leader, GE International Inc.

March 2008

SVP, Finance, Calsonic Kansei Corporation

April 2010

CFO & EVP, Calsonic Kansei Corporation

April 2012

Chairman & CEO, Calsonic Kansei Americas, CIO & EVP, Calsonic Kansei Corporation

 

April 2016

Regional SVP, Head of Admin & Finance for JPN/A&O, Strategy and Acceleration office for Japan/A&O, Head of Japan Business Management, Co-Chairperson for Japan Consolidated Dealers, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Representative Director of Nissan Korea, Director of Nissan Network Holdings, Chuo Nissan, Tokai Nissan, Kinki Nissan and Kyusyu Nissan (to the present)

 

(Reference) Executive team as of March 29, 2018

Position   Name
Representative Director, Chairman Tetsuya Tsurumaru

Representative Director, President and CEO

Bunsei Kure
Executive Vice President, Member of the Board and CFO Hidetoshi Shibata
Outside Director Tetsuro Toyoda
Outside Director Jiro Iwasaki
Outside Director Kazuki Fukuda
Outside Corporate Auditor (part-time) Kazuyoshi Yamazaki
Outside Corporate Auditor (part-time) Takeshi Sekine
Outside Corporate Auditor (part-time) Noboru Yamamoto
Executive Vice President Yoshikazu Yokota
Executive Vice President Masahiko Nozaki
Executive Vice President Manabu Kawashima
Executive Vice President Necip Sayiner
Executive Vice President Hirotaka Yamanami
Executive Vice President Shingo Yamamoto
Senior Vice President Michael Hannawald
Senior Vice President Tomomitsu Maoka
Senior Vice President Hiroto Nitta
Senior Vice President Shinichi Yoshioka

About Renesas Electronics Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live-securely and safely. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power and SoC products, Renesas provides the expertise, quality, and comprehensive solutions for a broad range of Automotive, Industrial, Home Electronics, Office Automation and Information Communication Technology applications to help shape a limitless future. Learn more at renesas.com.

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