Tokyo, February 22, 2010 — 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 to new positions effective April 1, 2010: Nobumitsu Kambayashi, Senior Vice President + (currently Senior Vice President *) concurrently to be appointed President, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation Chikashi Motoyama, Director (currently Senior Vice President *) *Representative director +Part-time
The Kawasaki Board of Directors also decided today that Toshikazu Hayashi, President of Kawasaki Plant Systems, Ltd., Makoto Sonoda, President of Kawasaki Precision Machinery Ltd., and Managing Executive Officer Shigeru Murayama will be nominated as Directors at the Kawasaki Shareholders’ Meeting in late June 2010. Subject to approval at that meeting, Murayama will then be appointed Senior Vice President. Also in late June, Motoyama will resign as Director to become an Advisor. New directors to be nominated Toshikazu Hayashi President, Kawasaki Plant Systems, Ltd. Makoto Sonoda President, Kawasaki Precision Machinery Ltd. Shigeru Murayama Managing Executive Officer
Retiring director Chikashi Motoyama
Projected Board of Directors (effective in late June 2010) Tadaharu Ohashi Chairman Satoshi Hasegawa* President Shuji Mihara* Senior Executive Vice President Masashi Segawa* Senior Executive Vice President Mitsutoshi Takao* Senior Vice President Yuichi Asano* Senior Vice President Nobumitsu Kambayashi+ Senior Vice President Kyohei Matsuoka* Senior Vice President Hiroshi Takata* Senior Vice President Shigeru Murayama* Senior Vice President Toshikazu Hayashi+ Director Makoto Sonoda+ Director *Representative director +Part-time
In addition, the Company also announced that the following management changes will become effective April 1, 2010: New executive officers to be appointed Minoru Akioka Deputy General Manager Corporate Planning Division Yukinobu Kono Senior Manager Electric System Department System Technological Development Center Corporate Technology Division Nobuyoshi Kobayashi General Manager Industrial Facilities and Tunneling Equipment Division Masafumi Nakagawa General Manager Marketing & Sales Division Consumer Products & Machinery Company
Retiring executive officers Akira Hattori Sumihiro Ueda Wataru Kanamori Yutaka Shimomura
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