Advantest : Notice of Changes in Representative Directors
December 22, 2022 at 03:22 am EST
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 22, 2022
ADVANTEST CORPORATION
Yoshiaki Yoshida
Representative Director, President and CEO
(Stock Code Number: 6857)
CONTACT:
Atsushi Fujita
Director, Senior Executive Officer
Executive Vice President, Corporate Administration Group
Phone: +81-(0)3-3214-7500
Notice of Changes in Representative Directors
Tokyo - December 22, 2022 - Advantest Corporation hereby announces that the Board of Directors held on December 22, 2022 resolved to change in Representative Directors as follows.
Reason for the change
To strengthen our management structure in response to changes in the business environment including business expansion, acceleration of further growth, and preparation for future generational changes.
Changes in Representative Directors
Name
New Title
Present Title
Yoshiaki Yoshida
Representative Director, President & Group CEO
Representative Director, President
and CEO
Douglas Lefever
Representative Director, Corporate Vice President
Director, Senior Executive Officer
& Group COO
Koichi Tsukui
Representative Director, Corporate Vice President
Director, Senior Executive Officer
& Group Co-COO
3. Brief biography of the new Representative Directors
Name
Brief biography
Share
(Date of Birth)
ownership
Douglas Lefever
June 1998
Joined Advantest America, Inc.
(December 10, 1970)
August 2014
Executive Officer, Advantest Corporation
0 shares
September 2014 Director, President and CEO,
Advantest America, Inc. (present position)
June 2017
Managing Executive Officer,
Advantest Corporation
June 2019
Executive Vice President, System Test
Business Unit (present position)
June 2020
Director, Managing Executive Officer
Customer Relations & Corporate Strategy
Leader, Applied Research & Venture Team
(present position)
June 2021
Director, Senior Executive Officer
(present position)
CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) (present position)
Koichi Tsukui
April 1987
Joined Advantest Corporation
(December 11, 1964)
June 2014
Executive Officer
10,461 shares
June 2015
Managing Executive Officer
June 2018
Executive Vice President, Memory
Test Business Unit, ATE Business Group
June 2019
In Charge of DH Business Group
(present position)
June 2020
Director, Managing Executive Officer
Test Technology
Leader, ATE Business Group (present position)
June 2021
Director, Senior Executive Officer
(present position)
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
(present position)
4. Effective Date
January 1, 2023
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Advantest Corporation specializes in manufacturing and marketing test equipment for electronic components. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- performance test equipment for semiconductors (72.2%);
- mechatronic devices (10.7%): operating test devices for semiconductors and electronic components;
- other (17.1%): primarily assistance services.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (3.7%), Asia (85.6%), America (7.6%) and Europe (3.1%).