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Notification of Changes to Top Management

This is a notification of the informal appointments of top management made at today's meeting of the Shimadzu Corporation Board of Directors. These personnel will be formally accepted on the Board of Directors at the Annual Shareholders Meeting planned for late June.

Shigehiko HATTORI (67 years old)

New Representative Director, Chairman of the Board
Former Representative Director, President and CEO

Akira NAKAMOTO (63 years old)

New Representative Director, President and CEO
Former Senior Managing Director,
Assistant to President, In charge of Risk Management,
Public Relations, Finance, and Legal Affairs

Hidetoshi YAJIMA resigned as Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, and assumes the role of Senior Corporate Advisor.


Senior Managing Director Akira NAKAMOTO



Company: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
Name: Akira NAKAMOTO
Position: Senior Managing Director
Date of birth: November 25, 1945
Age: 63

Place of birth: Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Education: March 1969 Graduated from Department of Electronics,
School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University
Experience: April 1969 Joined Shimadzu Corporation
May 1992

General Manager, Quality Assurance Department,
Chromatographic Instruments Division,
Analytical Instruments & Systems Group
June 1998 Deputy General Manager and LC General Manager,
Analytical Instruments Division
June 2000 Corporate Officer
General Manager, Analytical Instruments Division
June 2001 Director, Member of the Board
In charge of Process & Environmental Instrumentation Division
General Manager, Analytical Instruments Division
April 2002 General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division
June 2005 Managing Director
General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division
June 2007 Senior Managing Director
Assistant to President
In charge of Risk Management, Public Relations, Finance, and Legal Affairs

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