Sysmex : Announcement of Organizational and Personnel Changes (PDF：376KB)

March 9, 2020

Sysmex Corporation

Announcement of Organizational and Personnel Changes

Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Hisashi Ietsugu) announces today its decision to implement organizational and personnel changes, effective April 1, 2020, as detailed below. Targeting sustainable growth for the Group, the organizational changes aim to enhance the business development structure to accelerate strategy deployment and reinforce the Group's governance structure to enhance management quality.

1． Organizational Changes

1. Reinforcing the Business Development Structure
2. 1. Augmenting Functions Related to Sales, Services and IT Products Leveraging Next- Generation Information Technologies
   2. • We will establish the Caresphere Innovation Division to spearhead planning and promotion with a view to fostering digital innovation in the sales, service and IT domains by leveraging our Caresphere™ network solution.
   3. Strengthening Clinical Development Capabilities in the Life Science (LS) Field
   4. • In the aim of accelerating the provision of products and services with new diagnostic technologies, we will establish the LS Medical Affairs Division within the LS Business Unit. The new division will strategically plan and promote clinical performance testing within the scope of obtaining approval to manufacture and sell in vitro diagnostic pharmaceuticals (regulatory approval).
3. Buttressing the Global Governance Structure
4. 1. Reinforcing the Group Governance Function to Enhance Management Quality
   2. • To realize a governance function that responds to a rapidly changing environment, we will integrate the internal control and risk management functions and establish the Internal Control Division as the entity dedicated to these functions.

Organizational Structure (Changes are in red.)

Organizational Structure (FY2019)

2． Personnel Changes and Appointments
(1)	Appointments of Senior Executive Officers (Promotions)
	Name	New Position		Current Position
	Tomokazu	Senior Executive Officer		Executive Officer
	Yoshida
	Kensuke Iizuka	Senior Executive Officer		Executive Officer
(2)	Appointments of Executive Officers (Newly Appointed)
	Name	New Position		Current Position
	Alain Baverel	Executive Officer		CEO, Sysmex Europe GmbH
(3)	Retirement of Executive Officers (Completion of Contract Term)
	Name	New Position		Current Position
	John Kershaw	―		Senior Executive Officer

(4) Changes in Operating and Functional Changes of Executive Officers

Name	New Position	Current Position
Kaoru Asano	Member of the Managing Board and	Member of the Managing Board and
	Senior Executive Officer	Senior Executive Officer
	Senior Managing Director	Senior Managing Director
	COO LS Business Unit(*1) and CTO	COO LS Business Unit and CTO
	In charge of Corporate R&D(*2)	In charge of;
	Vice President of	LS Business Div.
	Medicaroid Corporation	Clinical Innovation Div.
	LS Business Development Dept.
		LS Medical Affairs Dept.
		Technology Strategy Div.
		Central Research Laboratories
		System Technologies Laboratory
		Bio-Diagnostic Reagent Technology
		Center
		Intellectual Property Div.
		Scientific Affairs Div.
		MR Business Development Div.
		Medicaroid Corporation
		Sysmex Engineering Co., Ltd.
		Creative Nanosystems Corporation
		Sysmex R&D Center Europe GmbH
		Vice President of
		Medicaroid Corporation
Kenji	Member of the Managing Board and	Member of the Managing Board and
Tachibana	Senior Executive Officer	Senior Executive Officer
	Senior Managing Director	Senior Managing Director
	COO IVD Business Unit(*3)	COO IVD Business Unit
		In charge of;
		Business Strategy Development Div.
		HU Business Development Div.
		ICH Business Development Div.
		Engineering 1 Div.
		Engineering 2 Div.
		JEA Region Div.
		Sales and Marketing East / Japan Div.
		Sales and Marketing West / Japan Div.
		Global Support Div.
		Technology HR Development Dept.
		Development Administration Dept.
Iwane Matsui	Member of the Managing Board and	Member of the Managing Board and
	Senior Executive Officer	Senior Executive Officer
	Managing Director	Managing Director
	In charge of Japan and	In charge of;
	International Business(*4)	JEA Region Div.
		Sales and Marketing East / Japan Div.
		Sales and Marketing West / Japan Div.
		Global Support Div.
		Sysmex TMC Co., Ltd.
		Sysmex CNA Co., Ltd.
		Sysmex America, Inc.
		Sysmex Europe GmbH
		Sysmex Shanghai Ltd.
		Sysmex Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
		Sysmex Korea Co., Ltd.
		Sysmex Taiwan Co., Ltd.

Name	New Position	Current Position
Hiroshi Kanda	Member of the Managing Board and	Member of the Managing Board and
	Senior Executive Officer	Senior Executive Officer
	Managing Director	Managing Director
	IVD Business Unit	IVD Business Unit
	In charge of IVD Business(*5)	In charge of;
		Business Strategy Development Div.
		HU Business Development Div.
		ICH Business Development Div.
		Sysmex Partec GmbH
		HYPHEN BioMed, SAS
		Sysmex Wuxi Co., Ltd.
Mamoru	Senior Executive Officer	Senior Executive Officer
Kubota	LS Business Unit	LS Business Unit
	In charge of LS Business(*6)	In charge of;
		LS Business Div.
		Clinical Innovation Div.
		LS Business Development Dept.
		LS Medical Affairs Dept.
		RIKEN GENESIS CO., LTD.
		Sysmex Inostics GmbH
		Oxford Gene Technology IP Limited
Tomokazu	Senior Executive Officer	Executive Officer
Yoshida	Executive Vice President of	Executive Vice President of
	Central Research Laboratories,	Central Research Laboratories,
	MR Business Development	MR Business Development
	Director of Medicaroid Corporation	Director of Medicaroid Corporation
Kensuke Iizuka	Senior Executive Officer	Executive Officer
	Deputy in charge of	Deputy in charge of;
	Corporate Staff(*7)	Human Resources Div.
		General Affairs Div.
		Sysmex Business Support Co., Ltd.
		Sysmex Harmony Co., Ltd.
		Executive Vice President of
		Human Resources Div.
Frank	Executive Officer	Executive Officer
Buescher	CEO, Sysmex Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.	CEO, Sysmex Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
	Executive Vice President of
	Caresphere Innovation Div.
Alain Baverel	Executive Officer	CEO, Sysmex Europe GmbH
	CEO, Sysmex Europe GmbH

1. LS Business Div., Clinical Innovation Div., LS Medical Affairs Div., LS Business Development Dept.
2. Technology Strategy Div., Central Research Laboratories, System Technologies Laboratory, Bio-Diagnostic Reagent Technology Center, Intellectual Property Div., Scientific Affairs Div., MR Business Development Div. Medicaroid Corporation, Sysmex Engineering Co.,Ltd., Creative Nanosystems Corporation, Sysmex R&D Center Americas, Inc., Sysmex R&D Center Europe GmbH
3. Business Strategy Development Div., HU Business Development Div., ICH Business Development Div., Caresphere Innovation Div., Engineering 1 Div., Engineering 2 Div., JEA Region Div., Sales and Marketing East / Japan Div., Sales and Marketing West / Japan Div., Global Support Div., Technology HR Development Dept., Development Administration Dept.
4. JEA Region Div., Sales and Marketing East / Japan Div., Sales and Marketing West / Japan Div., Global Support Div.
   Sysmex TMC Co., Ltd., Sysmex CNA Co., Ltd., Sysmex America, Inc., Sysmex Europe GmbH, Sysmex Shanghai

Ltd., Sysmex Asia Pacific Pte Ltd., Sysmex Korea Co., Ltd., Sysmex Taiwan Co., Ltd.

1. Business Strategy Development Div., HU Business Development Div., ICH Business Development Div., Caresphere Innovation Div.
   Sysmex Partec GmbH, Sysmex CNA Co., Ltd., Sysmex New Zealand Ltd., HYPHEN BioMed, SAS, Sysmex Wuxi Co., Ltd
2. LS Business Div., Clinical Innovation Div., LS Medical Affairs Div., LS Business Development Dept., RIKEN GENESIS CO., LTD., Sysmex Inostics GmbH, Oxford Gene Technology IP Limited
3. Corporate Business Planning Div., Corporate Communication Div., Corporate Business Administration Div., Human Resources Div., General Affairs Div., Corporate Executive Office
   Sysmex Business Support Co., Ltd., Sysmex Harmony Co., Ltd.