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SUMITOMO CHEMICAL
Birth Date: July 13, 1945

1971 Joined Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (Currently NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION)

1998 Director, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

1999 Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

2003 Senior Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

2003 Director & Senior Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

2005 Representative Director & Vice President, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

2005 Representative Director & President, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

2012 Representative Director & President & COO, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (Currently NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION)

2014 Representative Director & Vice Chairman, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

2015 Director & Advisor, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

2015 Advisor, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

2015 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

2016 Outside Director, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (current)

2020 Senior Advisor, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION (current)

2020 Outside Director, The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (current)

Birth Date: December 19, 1951

1993 Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo

1996 Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo

2007 Dean, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo

2016 Professor, Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University

2018 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

2022 Outside Director, JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation (current)

2022 Outside Director, Hagoromo Foods Corporation (current)

2022 Outside Director, Shizuoka Financial Group, Inc. (current)

Birth Date: December 28, 1955

1978 Joined Ministry of Labour (Currently Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare)

2005 Counsellor for Policy Evaluation, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare

2006 Deputy Director-General, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare

2008 Director-General, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare

2010 Director-General for Policies on Cohesive Society, Cabinet Office

2012 Director-General, Social Welfare and War Victims’ Relief Bureau, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare

2013 Vice Minister of Health Labour and Welfare, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare

2015 Retired from Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare

2018 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

Birth Date: November 12, 1954

1978 Joined Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

2007 Executive Officer & General Manager, Corporate Planning Department, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

2008 Director & Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

2010 Representative Director & President, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

2020 Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. (current)

2021 Outside Director, Konica Minolta, Inc. (current)

2022 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

Birth Date: January 26, 1960

1982 Joined Bank of America Corporation Tokyo Branch

1996 Deputy General Manager (Head of Structured Finance Department), London Branch, The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Limited

2000 Partner (Head of PPP (Public Private Partnership) and Privatization), PwC Financial Advisory Services Co., Ltd. (Currently PwC Advisory LLC)

2007 Deputy Mayor, Yokohama City

2011 Partner (Head of PPP and Infrastructure Asia-Pacific), PwC Advisory Co., Ltd. (Currently PwC Advisory LLC)

2017 President and Representative Director, Veolia Japan K.K. (Currently Veolia Japan GK)

2020 Chairman and Representative Director, Veolia Japan GK(current)

2023 Outside Director, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (current)

2024 Outside Director, East Japan Railway Company (current)

2024 Outside Director, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

Birth Date: June 26, 1949

1975 Prosecutor

2010 Superintending Prosecutor, the Fukuoka High Public Prosecutors Office

2012 Retirement as Prosecutor

2012 Registered as Attorneys (current)

2013 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

2019 Outside Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. (current)

Birth Date: September 17, 1951

1974 Joined Tetsuzo Ota & Co. (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)

1978 Registered as a certified public accountant (current)

1998 Representative Patner, Showa Ota & Co. (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)

2006 Managing Executive Partner, Ernst & Young ShinNihon (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)

2008 CEO, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC (Currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)

2014 Retired from Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC

2015 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

2024 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (current)

Birth Date: June 14, 1949

1973 Joined Bank of Japan

1998 General Manager, Sapporo Branch of Bank of Japan

2000 Retired from Bank of Japan

2000 Executive Director, Osaka Securities Exchange (Currently Japan Exchange Group, Inc.)

2001 Executive Director, Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.

2002 Senior Executive Director, Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.

2003 President & CEO, Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd.

2013 Director & Representative Executive Officer, Group COO, Japan Exchange Group, Inc. Director, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.

2015 Resigned as Director & Representative Executive Officer, Group COO, Japan Exchange Group, Inc. Resigned as Director, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.

2018 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (current)

2020 Outside Director, Toyo Tire Corporation (current)