Announcement of Changes in Representative Director and Other Directors : The Kurita Group

2017

February 28, 2017

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 28, 2017 resolved to make the following changes in the representative director and other directors. These changes will take effect on April 1, 2017. An informal decision was also made to appoint a new director and member of the Audit & Supervisory Board, which will take effect on June 29.
The appointment of the new director and member of the Audit & Supervisory Board that will take effect on June 29 is expected to be formalized at the 81th annual meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 29, 2017.

1. Changes in representative director

Changes in duties of representative director (To take effect on April 1, 2017)

Name	New position	Current position
Koichi Iioka	Executive Senior Managing Director General Manager of Global Business Division and in charge of the chemicals business	Executive Senior Managing Director General Manager of Chemicals Division

2. Changes involving other directors

（1）Changes in responsibilities of directors (To take effect on April 1, 2017)

Name	New position	Current position
Kiyoshi Itou	Managing Director General Manager of Group Administrative Division	Managing Director General Manager of Administrative Division
Toshitaka Kodama	Managing Director General Manager of Sales II Division and in charge of the facilities business	Managing Director General Manager of Facilities Division
Yoshio Yamada	Director General Manager of Sales I Division	Director General Manager of Sales Group I, Chemicals Division
Ikuo Ishimaru	Director General Manager of Group Quality & Production Division	Director General manager of Global Quality Group, Facilities Division
Hirohiko Ejiri	Director General Manager of Corporate Planning Division	Director General Manager of Corporate Planning Division

（2）Candidate for a director (Scheduled date of appointment: June 29, 2017)

Name	New position	Current position
Ryoko Sugiyama *1	Director (Part-Time)	-

*1Ms. Ryoko Sugiyama is a candidate for an external director and will be registered as an independent officer.
Note:See the Supplementary Material for Ms. Ryoko Sugiyama's career summary.

（3）Retirement of directors (Scheduled date of retirement: June 29, 2017)

Name	New position	Current position
Toshiyuki Nakai	Senior Corporate Advisor	Chairman and Director
Seiji Nakamura *2	-	Director (Part-Time)

*2Mr. Seiji Nakamura is an external director and is registered as an independent officer.

（4）Candidate for a member of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Scheduled date of appointment: June 29, 2017)

Name	New position	Current position
Shigekazu Torikai *3	Member of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Part-Time)	-

*3Mr. Shigekazu Torikai is a candidate for an external member of the Audit & Supervisory Board, and will be registered as an independent officer.
Note:See the Supplementary Material for Mr. Shigekazu Torikai's career summary.

（5）Retirement of a member of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Scheduled date of retirement: June 29, 2017)

Name	New position	Current position
Tamio Uda *4	-	Member of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Part-Time)

*4Mr. Tamio Uda is an external member of the Audit & Supervisory Board and is registered as an independent officer.

(Reference) Members of the Audit & Supervisory Board from June 29, 2017

Name	Position	Remark
Shiro Hayashi	Full-Time member of the Audit & Supervisory Board	Remaining appointed
Kenjiro Kobayashi	Full-Time member of the Audit & Supervisory Board	Remaining appointed
Shigekazu Torikai	Member of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Part-Time)	Newly appointed

Note:Mr. Kenjiro Kobayashi is an external member of the Audit & Supervisory Board and is registered as an independent officer.
The term of office of Mr. Shiro Hayashi and Mr. Kenjiro Kobayashi will expire at the close of the 84th annual meeting of shareholders. The term of office of Mr. Shigekazu Torikai will expire at the close of the 85th annual meeting of shareholders.

Supplementary Material

Career Summary of Candidate for Director

Name/ Date of Birth	Career Summary	Number of shares held (unit: 100 shares)
Ryoko Sugiyama July 27, 1955	May 1996 Established Sugiyama & Kurihara Environmental Consultants, Inc.; representative director September 2007 Director, Sugiyama & Kurihara Environmental Consultants, Inc. (current post) September 2007 Associate professor, Faculty of Environment and Disaster Research (now Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies), Fuji Tokoha University (now Tokoha University) April 2010 Professor, Faculty of Environment and Disaster Research (now Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies), Fuji Tokoha University (now Tokoha University) (current post) June 2010 Outside director and member of the audit and supervisory committee, LECIP HOLDINGS CORPORATION (listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) (current post) June 2015 Part-Time outside director, UACJ Corporation (listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) (current post) June 2017 Director (Part-Time) of Kurita Water Industries, Ltd. (scheduled)	0

Career Summary of Candidate for Member of the Audit & Supervisory Board

Name/ Date of Birth	Career Summary	Number of shares held (unit: 100 shares)
Shigekazu Torikai March 12, 1947	March 1990 Finished legal apprenticeship and registered as an attorney (42nd batch of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association) April 1990 Joined Suzuki Hideo (Takunosuke) Law Office September 1991 Joined Taga Kenjiro Law Office April 1994 Opened Torikai Law Office June 2017 Member of the Audit & Supervisory Board, Kurita Water Industries, Ltd. (Part-Time) (scheduled)	0

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