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Notice of Changes in Representative Directors

Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Hisashi Ietsugu) announces that it has resolved, at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on February 7, 2023, to change the representative directors as stated below.

Changes in representative directors

Name New Current
Kaoru Asano President
(Representative Director)
Member of the Managing Board and Senior Executive Officer
Senior Managing Director, CTO
Hisashi Ietsugu Chairman and Group CEO
(Representative Director)
Chairman and CEO
(Representative Director)

 Reason for change: Due to change in executive structure.

Appointment date (Scheduled)

   April 1, 2023  

Career summary of new representative director

   Name: Kaoru Asano
 
 
   Date of birth: October 19, 1958
   Education: Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University,
Division of Electronic Engineering
   Career: 2021 -      Member of the Managing Board and Senior Executive Officer
                         Senior Managing Director, CTO
    2018 - 2021   Member of the Managing Board and Senior Executive Officer
                         Senior Managing Director, COO LS Business Unit and CTO
    2017 - 2018   Member of the Managing Board and Senior Executive Officer
                         Senior Managing Director
    2015 - 2017   Member of the Managing Board and Senior Executive Officer
                         Managing Director
    2014 - 2015   Appointed Member of the Managing Board and Senior Executive Officer
    2013 - 2014   Appointed Senior Executive Officer
                         Executive Vice President of Central Research Laboratories
    2011 -2013    Appointed Executive Officer
                         Executive Vice President of R&D Strategic Planning
    2009 - 2011   Appointed Executive Officer
                         Executive Vice President of Central Research Laboratories
    Aug 1987      Joined TOA Medical Electronics (presently Sysmex Corporation)  
    Apr 1983      Joined Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.  
    Mar 1983      Graduated from Osaka University  
   Public Offices:
Vice Chairperson, The Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry
 
    Vice-chairman, Japan Biological Informatics Consortium (JBIC)   
    Director, Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe  
    Director, Japan Association of Medical Devices Industries  
   Award: 2013 Commendation for Science and Technology (Development Category) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 
   Shareholding: 53,300 shares  (as of December 31, 2022) 


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