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2020/03/27

Directors Elected at the 26th General Meeting of Shareholders

Directors of OPT Holding, Inc. (Head Office: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo; President & Group CEO: Atsushi Nouchi, hereinafter “the Company”), which is leading corporate digital shift across Japan, were elected at the 26th General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company held on March 27, 2020. At the subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors, the Company officially decided on a new management structure, as follows.

1. Directors

Name	New Position	Former Position
Noboru Hachimine	Chairman	President & Group CEO	Reappointment
Atsushi Nouchi	President & Group CEO	Vice President & Group COO	Reappointment
Shusaku Minoda	Director	Director	Reappointment
Tomoyuki Mizutani	Director (External/Independent Director)	Director (External/Independent Director)	Reappointment
Koji Yanagisawa	Director (External/Independent Director)	-	New appointment
Yasuhiro Ogino	Director (External/Independent Director)	-	New appointment

2. Directors Who Are Audit & Supervisory Committee Members

Name	New Position	Former Position
Fumiyuki Shinomiya	Director who is an Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (External/Independent Director)	Director who is an Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (External/Independent Director)	Reappointment
Yuki Okabe	Director who is an Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (External/Independent Director)	-	New appointment
Toshio Yamaue	Director who is an Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (External/Independent Director)	Director who is an Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (External/Independent Director)	Reappointment
Masahiro Yamamoto	Director who is an Audit & Supervisory Committee Member (External/Independent Director)	-	New appointment

3. Career Summary of New Appointees to the Position of Director

Name
(Date of Birth)

Career Summary

Koji Yanagisawa

(May 19, 1971)

Apr. 1995 Joined The Fuji Bank, Limited (currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)

May 1999 Joined NTT DATA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, Inc.

May 2005 Joined Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.

Feb. 2006 Full-time Statutory Auditor, Start Today, Co. Ltd. (currently ZOZO, Inc.)

Jun. 2008 Director and General Manager of Strategic Planning and Business Administration Division, ZOZO, Inc.

Apr. 2009 Director and CFO, ZOZO, Inc.

Dec. 2015 Director, COLOPL, Inc. (reappointment)

Apr. 2017 Director, Executive Vice President & CFO, ZOZO, Inc.

Name
(Date of Birth)

Career Summary

Yasuhiro Ogino

(September 29, 1973)

Aug. 2005 Joined Macromill, Inc.

Jan. 2008 Executive Officer (in charge of Finance and Accounting Headquarters), Macromill, Inc.

Jun. 2008 Joined J-Magic K.K.

Dec. 2008 Director, CFO, General Manager of Administration Management Division, J-Magic K.K.

Dec. 2009 Joined mixi, Inc.

Nov. 2011 Executive General Manager of the Administrative Headquarter, mixi, Inc.

Feb. 2012 Executive Officer, mixi, Inc.

Jun. 2012 Director, mixi, Inc.

May 2017 Representative Director, SmartHealth, Inc. (current position)

Apr. 2018 Executive Officer, mixi, Inc.

4. Career Summary of New Appointees to the Position of Director who are Audit & Supervisory Committee Members

Name
(Date of Birth)

Career Summary

Yuki Okabe

(May 5, 1973)

Apr. 1992 Joined THE OITA BANK, LTD.

Mar. 1998 Joined Takahashi Tax Accounting Office

Oct. 2002 Joined ChuoAoyama Audit Corporation

Jul. 2007 Joined Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC

Oct. 2011 Established Okabe Yuki Certified Public Accountant and FP Office

Mar. 2016 Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, fonfun corporation

Jul. 2018 Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, AltPlus Inc. (current position)

Name
(Date of Birth)

Career Summary

Masahiro Yamamoto

(August 15, 1958)

Mar. 1983 Joined Price Waterhouse Certified Public Accountants Office

Mar. 1986 Registered as Certified Public Accountant

Aug. 2000 Representative Partner, ChuoAoyama Audit Corporation

Sep. 2006 Representative Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC)

Jul. 2019 Established Yamamoto Masahiro Certified Public Accountant Office (current position)

[Reference] <Group Executive Directors (as of April 1, 2020)>

Position	Name
Group Executive Officer & Group CEO	Atsushi Nouchi
Group Executive Officer & Chairman (President of DIGITAL SHIFT, Inc.)	Noboru Hachimine
Group Executive Officer & Group CFO, responsible for business management	Takayuki Kato
Group Executive Officer & Group CHRO	Jun Ishiwata
Group Executive Officer, responsible for major and semi-major marketing companies	Daisuke Kanazawa
Group Executive Officer, responsible for technology & solutions	Yasushi Ishihara
Group Executive Officer, responsible for investment development, China business and digital shift business	Kosuke Yoshida
Group Executive Officer, responsible for AI business	Shigeru Saito

The Group has worked to expand its business scope from the digital marketing know-how it has developed as an Internet advertising agency to include activities that provide total support for companies’ digital shift, such as the development of digital professional human resources and new businesses utilizing digital technologies.

As the digital industrial revolution gathers momentum, the environment in which companies operate is forecast to change ever more swiftly. In this context, the Group will continue to work as one to promote digital shift under the new strategy and management structure, striving to be a driving force in industrial and economic development.

* With the launch of the new management structure, the Message from the President and Management Team pages on the Company’s website have also been updated. Please take a moment to visit these pages.
Message from the President: https://www.optholding.co.jp/company/message/
Management Team: https://www.optholding.co.jp/company/officer/

■ Outline of OPT Holding
Company Name: OPT Holding Inc.
Capital: 8.212 billion yen (as of end of December 2018)
President Name: Noboru Hachimine, President & Group CEO
Listing Category: First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Securities Code: 2389)
Total sales: 87.216 billion JPY (December 2018 consolidated results)
EBITDA: 6.089 billion yen (December 2018 consolidated results)
No. of employees: 1,627 (End of December 2018 consolidated results)
URL: https://www.optholding.co.jp/

■ Contact Regarding Press Releases
OPT Holding Inc.
Group PR Representatives

Tel: 03-5745-3611
Email: info@hmg.opt.ne.jp

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