Directors and Executive Officers to Change
Feb. 21, 2008
TOKYO, February 21, 2008 — Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has announced that, based on decisions made at a Board of Directors meeting earlier today, the following Representative Directors will be appointed new positions effective April 1, 2008:
Masatoshi Terasaki
Director
(currently Senior Executive Vice President *)
Jiro Noguchi
Director
(currently Senior Vice President *)
* Representative Director
The Kawasaki Board of Directors also decided today that executive officer Mitsutoshi Takao will be nominated as Director at the Kawasaki Shareholders’ Meeting in late June 2008. Subject to approval at the meeting, Takao will then be appointed Senior Vice President. The Company will also name Nobuyuki Okazaki as Corporate Auditor at the meeting, since current auditor Tadao Ueda is resigning. In late June, Terasaki and Noguchi will resign their new positions to become a Senior Strategic Advisor and an Advisor, respectively. In addition, the Company also announced that the following management changes will become effective April 1, 2008.
Managing executive officers to be appointed
Nobumitsu Kambayashi
General Manager
Corporate Business Development Division
Kyohei Matsuoka
Vice President
Rolling Stock Company
Shigeru Murayama
Vice President
Aerospace Company
Executive officers to be appointed new positions
Akira Matsuzaki
General Manager
Corporate Technology Division
Shuji Mihara
Senior Manager
Corporate Planning Department
Hidetsugu Horikawa
Aerospace Company
Akira Hattori
General Manager
Rolling Stock Division
Rolling Stock Company
Yuichi Asano
General Manager
Machinery Division
Gas Turbine & Machinery Company
Seiji Yamashita
Senior Manager
CSR Department
Takeshi Sugawara
General Manager
Supply Chain Division
Consumer Product & Machinery Company
Wataru Kanamori
General Manager
Gas Turbine Division
Gas Turbine & Machinery Company
New executive officers to be appointed
Takeshi Watanabe
General Manager
Planning & Control Division
Aerospace Company
Yasuo Murata
Senior Manager
General Administration Department
Minoru Makimura
Deputy General Manager
Corporate Technology Division
Tamaki Miyatake
General Manager
Planning Division
Consumer Products & Machinery Company
Shuichi Yamanaka
General Manager
Planning & Control Division
Rolling Stock Company
Masahiko Hirohata
General Manager
Planning & Control Division
Gas Turbine & Machinery Company
Shinsuke Tanaka
Corporate Business Development Division
Yutaka Shimomura
Aerospace Company
Retiring executive officers
Shigeru Hamada
Fumiaki Amae
Masatoshi Ohyama
Shuichi Nose
Shinichi Suzuki
