Kuraray : Announcement of Changes in Executive Personnel

November 25, 2021

Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Announcement of Changes in Executive Personnel

Kuraray Co., Ltd. announces the following changes in executive personnel.

1. Changes in Director Positions

(Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in the end of March 2022)

New position	Name	Current position	Remarks
―	Kenichi Abe	Director and	Resignation
		Managing
		Executive Officer

2. Changes in Executive Officer Positions (Excluding Those Concurrently Posted as Directors) (Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in the end of March 2022)

New position	Name	Current position	Remarks
Managing Executive Officer	Satoru Fujinami	Executive Officer	Change of
			position
Executive Officer	Hideo Ohi	Associate Executive	New
		Officer	appointment
Executive Officer	Hiroyuki Shimo	Associate Executive	New
		Officer	appointment
Executive Officer	Yoshinobu Nakamura	Associate Executive	New
		Officer	appointment
Executive Officer	Akiko Ide	Associate Executive	New
		Officer	appointment
―	Hitoshi Toyoura	Senior Managing	Resignation
		Executive Officer
―	Tsugunori Kashimura	Senior Managing	Resignation
		Executive Officer
―	P. Scott Bening	Executive Officer	Resignation

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3. Directors, CorporateAuditors and Executive Officers after Changes ◎ Indicates a new appointment

※ Indicates a change in position

No mark indicates either a continuation in office or a reappointment to that office.

	President and Representative Director	Hitoshi Kawahara
	Representative	Director	and Senior	Hiroaya Hayase
	Managing Executive Officer
	Chairman and Director		Masaaki Ito
	Director and Senior Managing Executive	Yoshimasa Sano
	Officer
	Director	and	Managing	Executive	Keiji Taga
	Officer
	Director	and	Managing	Executive	Matthias Gutweiler
	Officer
	Director	and	Managing	Executive	Nobuhiko Takai
	Officer
	Outside Director			Jun Hamano
	Outside Director			Keiko Murata
	Outside Director			Satoshi Tanaka
	Outside Director			Kiyoto Ido
	Standing Corporate Auditor		Kazuhiro Nakayama
	Standing Corporate Auditor		Naoya Uehara
	External Corporate Auditor		Mitsuhiro Nagahama
	External Corporate Auditor		Tomomi Yatsu
	External Corporate Auditor		Kenji Komatsu
	Managing Executive Officer		Akira Omura
	Managing Executive Officer		Toshihiro Omatsu
	Managing Executive Officer		Toshinori Tsugaru
※	Managing Executive Officer		Satoru Fujinami
	Executive Officer			Stephen Cox
	Executive Officer			Koichi Takano
	Executive Officer			Hajime Suzuki
	Executive Officer			Takaharu Kawahara
	Executive Officer			Fuyuo Ueyama
	Executive Officer			Tomoyuki Watanabe
	Executive Officer			Stevan R. Schott
	Executive Officer			Yoji Ikemori
	Executive Officer			Kazushige Sakamoto
	Executive Officer			Koichi Daifuku
	Executive Officer			Junichi Fujiwara
◎	Executive Officer			Hideo Ohi
◎	Executive Officer			Hiroyuki Shimo
◎	Executive Officer			Yoshinobu Nakamura
◎	Executive Officer			Akiko Ide

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