DENSO Announces Management Changes

KARIYA (Japan) – DENSO Corporation today announced changes to its board of directors and executive directors. Changes will take place after the 92th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on June 19, 2015.

1. Changes of Members of the Board
(1) Responsibiliy Changes of Current Members of the Board:
Nobuaki Katoh, Chairman, Member of the Board (from President & CEO, Member of the Board)
Koji Kobayashi, Vice Chairman, Member of the Board (from Executive Vice President, Member of the Board)

(2) New Members:
Koji Arima, President & CEO, Member of the Board (from Senior Executive Director)
Yasushi Yamanaka, Executive Vice President, Member of the Board (from Senior Executive Director)
Yoshikazu Makino, Senior Executive Director, Member of the Board (from Senior Executive Director)

(3) Resignation:
Akio Shikamura (from Executive Vice President, Member of the Board)
Shinji Shirasaki (from Senior Executive Director, Member of the Board)
Hiroyuki Wakabayashi (from Senior Executive Director, Member of the Board)
Shoichiro Toyoda (from Member of the board)

2. Changes of Audit and Supervisory Board Member
(1) New Member:
Moritaka Yoshida (from Senior Executive Director, Toyota Motor Corporation)

(2) Resignation:
Fujio Cho (from Audit and Supervisory Board Member)

3. Changes of Senior Executive Directors
(1) New Members:
Sadahiro Usui (from Executive Director)
Katsuhisa Shimokawa (from Executive Director)
Yukihiko Murakami (from Executive Director)
Hiroyuki Ina (from Executive Director)

(2) Resignation:
Shinji Shirasaki
Manfredo Nicolelli

4. Changes of Executive Directors
(1) New Members:
Masato Nakagawa (from President, DENSO Europe B.V.)
Keiko Shimokata (from Director, Health Care Promotion Division)
Yutaka Yamanouchi (from President, PT. DENSO Indonesia )
Hisashi Iida (from Head of Business Unit, System Control Components Business Unit)
Marco Di Rao Marotta (from COO, DENSO Thermal Systems Europe Center)
Shinnosuke Hayashi (from Project Director, Electronics Manufacturing. Division)

(2) Resignation:
Tatsuya Toyoda

DENSO Corporation, headquartered in Kariya, Aichi prefecture, Japan, is a leading global automotive supplier of advanced technology, systems and components in the areas of thermal, powertrain control, electronics and information and safety. Its customers include all the world’s major carmakers. Worldwide, the company has more than 200 subsidiaries and affiliates in 38 countries and regions (including Japan) and employs nearly 140,000 people. DENSO common stock is traded on the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges. For more information, go to www.globaldenso.com, or visit our media website at www.densomediacenter.com.

Currently, in North America, DENSO employs more than 17,000 people at 33 consolidated companies and affiliates. Of these, 28 are manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In the U.S. alone, DENSO employs more than 14,000 people in California, Alabama, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. DENSO’s North American consolidated sales totaling $8.0 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015.