Changes in Directors, Corporate Auditors and Executive Officers

(To be effective on June 26, 2012)

1. Nominees for Directors
Director Toshio Maruyama Director Haruo Matsuno Director Naoyuki Akikusa Director Yasushige Hagio Director Shinichiro Kuroe Director Sae Bum Myung
Director Osamu Karatsu (to be newly elected) Advisor of SRI Japan
Director Hiroshi Nakamura (to be newly elected)
Executive Officer of Advantest Corporation
Mr. Maruyama is to be elected as Chairman of the Board and Representative Director and Mr. Matsuno is to be elected as Representative Director at the special meeting of the board of directors to be held on June 26, 2012 after the 70th ordinary general meeting of shareholders of Advantest Corporation.
2. Nominees for Corporate Auditors
Standing Corporate Auditor Yuichi Kurita (to be newly elected)
Director and Senior Executive Officer of Advantest Corporation
Corporate Auditor Megumi Yamamuro (to be re-elected)
3. Nominees for Executive Officers
President and CEO Haruo Matsuno Managing Executive Officer Shinichiro Kuroe Managing Executive Officer Sae Bum Myung Managing Executive Officer Hiroshi Nakamura Managing Executive Officer Yoshiaki Yoshida Managing Executive Officer Masao Shimizu Managing Executive Officer Hideaki Imada Executive Officer Yasuhiro Kawata Executive Officer Takashi Sugiura Executive Officer Takashi Sekino Executive Officer Soichi Tsukakoshi Executive Officer Josef Schraetzenstaller Executive Officer R. Keith Lee
Executive Officer Makoto Nakahara Executive Officer Toshiyuki Okayasu Executive Officer Hans-Juergen Wagner
Executive Officer Yih-Neng Lee (to be newly elected) Executive Officer CH Wu (to be newly elected)
Executive Officer Kazuhiro Yamashita (to be newly elected) Executive Officer Kenji Sato (to be newly elected)
4. Resignation from Directors, Corporate Auditors and Executive Officers
Yuichi Kurita, Director and Senior Executive Officer
--- To be elected as Standing Corporate Auditor
Yuri Morita, Standing Corporate Auditor
--- To be elected as Advisor
Nominees for New Directors (Biography)
Osamu Karatsu (Date of Birth: April 25, 1947)
Mar. 1975 Doctorate Degree from School of Engineering The University of Tokyo
Apr. 1975 Joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
Jun. 1991 Senior Director, LSI Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Feb. 1997 Director, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Apr. 1999 Principal Consultant, SRI Consulting K.K. Apr. 2000 Chief Executive Director, SRI Japan
Feb. 2012 Advisor, SRI Japan (present position)
Hiroshi Nakamura (Date of Birth December 4, 1957)
Mar. 1981 Graduated from the Faculty of Law and Letters, Kanazawa University
Apr. 1981 Joined Advantest Corporation
Jun. 2006 Executive Officer
Jun. 2009 Managing Executive Officer (present position)
Jun. 2010 Executive Vice President, Corporate Administration Group (present position)
Nominee for New Corporate Auditor (Biography) Yuichi Kurita (Date of Birth: July 28, 1949)
Mar. 1973 Graduated from German Department, the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Apr. 1973 Joined Fujitsu Limited
Mar. 2001 Joined Advantest Corporation
Jun. 2003 Executive Officer
Jun. 2007 Director and Managing Executive Officer
Jun. 2009 Corporate Planning and Administration (present position) Jun. 2010 Director and Senior Executive Officer (present position)
Nominees for New Executive Officers (Biography) Yih-Neng Lee (Date of Birth: June 23, 1958)
Mar. 1983 Graduated from Engineering, National University of Singapore
Nov. 1983 Joined Hewlett-Packard Company
Aug. 2005 VP and GM, Asia Sales Operation, Verigy (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Apt. 2012 CEO, Advantest (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (present position)
CH Wu (Date of Birth: February 26, 1961)
Jun. 1982 Graduated from Electronic Engineering, Lung Hua Industrial College, Taiwan
Jul. 1984 Joined Philips Electronic Taiwan Inc. Dec. 1990 Joined Advantest Taiwan Inc.
Jun. 2006 CEO, Advantest Taiwan Inc. (present position)
Kazuhiro Yamashita (Date of Birth: December 18, 1961)
Mar. 1984 Graduated from Department of Electric, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
Apr. 1984 Joined Advantest Corporation
Oct. 2011 Principal, Global Marketing, Strategic Business Unit (present position)
Kenji Sato (Date of Birth: May 2, 1962)
Mar. 1985 Graduated from Department of Management Scicence, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science
Apr. 1985 Joined Yokogawa-Hewlett-Packard Company
Jun. 2006 Representative Director and President, Verigy (Japan) K.K. Apr. 2012 Joined Advantest Corporation
Senior Vice President, Salas Division 1, Sales and Marketing Group, Advantest Corporation (present position)

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