OKI Announces Executive Personnel Changes
TOKYO, May 21, 2010 -- OKI Electric Industry (TSE: 6703) today announced that at its meeting today, the Board of Directors made its recommendation for executive appointments and retirements, which will be effective June 29, 2010.
1. Candidate of new directors (To be submitted for approval at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 29, 2010)
- <Name>
- <Newly appointed title (current title)>
- Masasuke Kishi
- Director (Senior Vice President)
- Sei Yano
- Director (Senior Vice President)
- Takuma Ishiyama *1
- Director (Professor, Nihon University Law School)
- *1 :External Director
2. Retiring directors (After the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 29, 2010)
- <Name>
- <Title after retirement, (current title)>
- Katsumasa Shinozuka
- Adviser, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (Chairman of the board)
- Yutaka Asai
- President, Oki Engineering Co., Ltd.
(Director, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. and President, Oki Engineering Co., Ltd.) - Minoru Morio *1
- (Director)
- *1 :External Director
3. Retiring auditor
- Yoshikatsu Shiraishi
- (Standing auditor)
4. Brief biography of candidate of new directors
Masasuke Kishi
- Date and place of birth
- June 19, 1955 (54 years old), Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Education
- March 1980 Completed master's program, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
- Business career
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- April 2010
- Appointed Chief Technology Officer (Current)
- October 2008
- Appointed President, Oki Networks Co., Ltd. *2
- April 2008
- Appointed Senior Vice President (Current), President, Network System Company, Information System Business Group, Systems Network Group
- April 2006
- Appointed Executive Officer, Senior Operating Officer, Systems Network Group and Executive Vice President, Network Systems Company and General Manager, Network Systems Division
- April 2004
- Appointed Vice President, Silicon Solutions Company and General Manager, Design Division
- October 1995
- Appointed Manager, Multi Media System Development Department, Multi Media System Development Center, Info-Telecom System Business Division
- April 1980
- Joined Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd
- *2 :Additional post
Sei Yano
- Date and place of birth
- April 28, 1955 (55 years old), Hokkaido, Japan
- Education
- March 1978 Graduated from the School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Business career
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- April 2010
- Appointed General Manager, Solution and Services Division (Current)
- April 2009
- Appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (Current)
- October 2008
- Appointed General Manager, Corporate Planning Department
- April 2007
- Appointed Executive Officer and General Manager, Corporate Strategy Planning Department
- April 2001
- Appointed General Manager, Strategy Planning Division, Net Business Solution Company
- July 1997
- Appointed General Manager, Business Promotion Department, Open-system Integration Center, System Business Group
- April 1978
- Joined Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Takuma Ishiyama
- Date and place of birth
- February 17, 1947 (63 years old), Hokkaido, Japan
- Education
- April 1975 Completed LL.D. (Doctor of Laws) program, Graduate School of Law, Waseda University
- Business career
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- April 2004
- Became Professor of Law School, Nihon University (Current)
- May 2003
- Registered as Attorney at Law, Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association
- April 2002
- Became Professor of Nihon University College of Law
- April 1991
- Became Professor of School of Commerce, Waseda University
- April 1986
- Became Professor of Faculty of Law, Dokkyo University
- December 1985
- Received Degree of LL.D. (Doctor of Laws), Waseda University
- July 1978
- Became Associate Professor of Faculty of Law, Aichi Gakukin University
About Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Founded in 1881, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's leading telecommunications manufacturer. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, OKI provides top-quality products, technologies, and solutions to customers through its info-telecom systems and printer operations. Its various business division function synergistically to bring to market exciting new products and technologies that meet a wide range of customer needs in various sectors . Visit OKI's global website at http://www.oki.com/.
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