Asante Incorporated : Notice Concerning Election of Candidate for Outside Auditor

News Release: Asante, Inc.	(6073 TSE1)
	April 20, 2021
To whom it may concern	Company name：Asante, Inc.
	(Code: 6073)
	Representative：Sei Miyauchi,
	Chief Executive Officer
	Contact：Yoshiyuki Nakao,
	Director, General Manager,
	Corporate Planning Department
	(TEL: [phone])

Notice Concerning Election of Candidate for Outside Auditor

At the Board of Directors Meeting held on April 20, 2021, we resolved regarding the candidate for new outside auditor to be submitted to the 48th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in mid- June 2021. Details are as follows.

1. Name and career summary of candidate for outside auditor

Name	Career summary
(Date of Birth)
July 2006	Operating Officer, Group Strategy Office
	Manager, General Manager of the HR Group,
	Recruit Cosmos Co., Ltd. (current Cosmos
	Initia Co., Ltd.,)
November 2011	Corporate Officer, General Manager of
	Corporate Planning Department,
	General Manager of the headquarters of
	management, Gyosei Corporation
October 2015	Director, General Manager of Administration
Shinichi Takano	Department, Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd.
Non-Executive Director, TSUKURUBA Inc.
(March 22, 1958)
(present)
June 2017	General Manager of Corporate Department,
	JapanTaxi Co., Ltd., (current Mobility
	Technologies Co., Ltd.,)
August 2017	Managing Director, Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd.
August 2019	Director, aima Co., Ltd. (present)

• Mr. Shinichi Takano satisfies the requirements for independent directors as stipulated by the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., and we plan to submit him to the Exchange as independent director.

2. Reason for the election

Mr. Shinichi Takano has a wealth of experience in corporate management and a wide range of knowledge. We believe that he will be able to audit the Company from an independent standpoint and provide useful advice on overall management, and that he will contribute to strengthening corporate governance. Therefore, we have nominated him as a candidate for Outside Auditor.