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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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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