Press Releases

2018

February 27, 2018

Announcement of Changes in Representative Director and Other Directors

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. is pleased to announce that a meeting of its Board of Directors on February 27, 2018 resolved to make the following changes in representative directors and other directors. These changes will take effect on April 1, 2018. An informal decision was also made to appoint new directors, which will take effect on June 28.
The appointment of the new directors that will take effect on June 28 is expected to be formalized at the 82nd annual meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 28, 2018, and the subsequent Board meeting.

1. Reason of Changes

Due to the changes of the new positions and responsibilities scheduled as of April 1, 2018

2. Changes in representative directors (To take effect on April 1, 2018)

(1) Changes in representative directors

Name New position Current position
Kiyoshi Itou Executive Senior Managing Director
General Manager of Corporate Planning Division
Managing Director
General Manager of Group Administrative Division
Koichi Iioka Chairman and Director
and in charge of the global business
Executive Senior Managing Director
General Manager of Global Business Division and in charge of the chemicals business

(2) Career summary of incoming representative director
See the Supplementary Material.

3. Changes involving other directors

  • (1) Promotion of directors (To take effect on April 1, 2018)
Name New position Current position
Yoshio Yamada Managing Director
General Manager of Sales Division I and in charge of the chemicals business
Director
General Manager of Sales Division I
  • (2) Changes in responsibilities of directors (To take effect on April 1, 2018)
Name New position Current position
Takahito Namura
Managing Director
General Manager of Solution Business Division
Managing Director
General Manager of Research and Development Division
Hirohiko Ejiri
Director
General Manager of Group Engineering Division
Director
General Manager of Corporate Planning Division
Ikuo Ishimaru
Director
(President and Representative Director of Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.)
Director
General Manager of Group Engineering Division
  • (3) Candidates for directors (Scheduled date of appointment: June 28, 2018)
Name New position Current position
Toshimi Kobayashi Director
General Manager of East Japan Sales Group, Sales Division I
Executive Officer
General Manager of Sales Group I, Sales Division I
Yasuo Suzuki Director
General Manager of Global Business Division
Executive Officer
General Manager of Operation Group, Global Business Division
Yukihiko Mutou Director
General Manager of Group Administrative Division
Executive Officer
General Manager of General Affairs Department, Group Administrative Division
  • *See the Supplementary Material for career summaries of candidates for directors.
  • (4) Retirement of directors (Scheduled date of retirement: June 28, 2018)
Name New position Current position
Ikuo Ishimaru Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.
President and Representative Director
Director
General Manager of Group Engineering Division
  • (5) Executive officers (To take effect on April 1, 2018)
Name Position
Shuji Shirode Assistant General Manager of Corporate Planning Division
Yukihiko Mutou General Manager of Group Administrative Division
Tatsushi Kuramae General Manager of Research and Development Division and President of Kurita R&D Asia Pte.Ltd.
Hiroaki Mori General Manager of Next Generation Business Division
Kunihiro Kuse General Manager of Engineering Group, Group Engineering Division
Yasuo Suzuki General Manager of Global Business Division
Matsuhiro Omaki General Manager of Operation Group, Global Business Division
Akira Iwami General Manager of Business Management Group, Sales Division I
Toshimi Kobayashi General Manager of East Japan Sales Group, Sales Division I
Tatsuhiro Oosuga General Manager of West Japan Sales Group, Sales Division I
Hirohisa Kamata General Manager of Energy & Infrastructure Industries Group, Sales Division II

Supplementary Material

Career Summary of Incoming Representative Director

Name/Date of Birth Career Summary Number of shares held (unit: 100 shares)
Kiyoshi Itou
March 8, 1956
  • April 1979
    Joined Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • June 2003
    General Manager of Legal Department, Administrative Division of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
    General Manager of Personnel and Labor Relations Department, Administrative Division of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • June 2007
    Executive Officer of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manager of Personnel and Labor Relations Department, Administrative Division
  • June 2009
    Director of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manager of Administrative Division
  • June 2013
    Managing Director of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manager of Corporate Planning Division
  • April 2016
    Managing Director of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manager of Administrative Division
  • April 2017
    Managing Director of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manager of Group Administrative Division (current position)
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Career Summaries of Candidates for Directors

Name/Date of Birth Career Summary Number of shares held (unit: 100 shares)
Toshimi Kobayashi
July 12, 1958
  • April 1982
    Joined Kurita Seibi KK.
  • April 2005
    General Manager of Tokyo Sales Department II, Maintenance Group, Customer Service Division of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • April 2011
    Executive Officer of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manager of Maintenance Group, Facilities Division of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • April 2017
    Executive Officer of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manager of Sales Group I, Sales Division I (current position)
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Yasuo Suzuki
August 16, 1959
  • December 1997
    Joined Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • April 2005
    General Manager of Steel and Oil Process Department, Chemicals Group I, Customer Service Division of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • April 2011
    Representative of Kurita Europe GmbH
  • April 2014
    Executive Officer of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.,
    Representative of Kurita Europe GmbH
  • April 2017
    Executive Officer of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manger of Operation Group, Global Business Division (current position)
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Yukihiko Mutou
June 19, 1959
  • October 1991
    Joined Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • June 2005
    General Manager of Finance and Accounting Department, Administrative Division of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • April 2012
    General Manager of Personnel and Labor Relations Department, Administrative Division of Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • April 2016
    Executive Officer of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manger of General Affairs Department, Administrative Division
  • April 2017
    Executive Officer of Kurita Water Industries Ltd., General Manger of General Affairs Department, Group Administrative Division (current position)
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  • The number of shares held by each is current as of January 31, 2018. They include shares held under the Shareholding Scheme for the purchase of the Company shares.