Avant : Appointment of new Corporate Officers

September 28, 2021 Avant Corporation Tetsuji Morikawa, President and Group CEO

For inquiry: Naoyoshi Kasuga, Director and Group CFO 81-3-6388-6739

AVANT announces appointment of new Corporate Officers

Avant Corporation (Stock code: 3836) hereby announces that its Board of Directors has decided at a meeting held on September 28, 2021 to make the following personnel changes (changes in corporate officers) effective October 1, 2021.

Note

New Corporate Officer (As of October 1, 2021)

	New position	Current position
Yoko Hosokawa	Corporate Officer	Director, General Manager of Shared
	Director, General Manager of Shared	Service,
	Service,	FIERTE CORPORATION
	FIERTE CORPORATION
Eriko Satonaka	Corporate Officer	General Manager of Group Human
	Group CHRO, General Manager of	Resources
	Group Human Resources

As a result, our leadership team from October 1, 2021 will be as follows.

President	Tetsuji Morikawa	Group CEO
Director	Naoyoshi Kasuga	Group CFO
Director	Naohisa Fukutani	(Outside Director, Independent)
Director	Georges Ugeux	(Outside Director, Independent)
Director	Jon Robertson	(Outside Director, Independent)
Corporate auditors	Tsuyoshi Noshiro	(Auditor)
Corporate auditors	Kunio Suzuki	(Outside Auditor)
Corporate auditors	Chie Goto	(Outside Auditor, Independent)
Corporate Officer	Takahiro Okabe	Group CDO, President and Representative Director, ZEAL
		CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Hiroshi Takizawa	President and Representative Director, Internet Disclosure Co.,
		Ltd.
Corporate Officer	Hiroki Takemura	Group CRO, Vice President and Representative Director,
		DIVA CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Gen Nagata	Group CBO, President and Representative Director, FIERTE
		CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Teppei Terashima	Director, DIVA CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Hiroshi Iwasa	Director, DIVA CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Yoshiyuki Numata	Director, ZEAL CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Hiroyuki Morita	Director, ZEAL CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Tetsuya Kawamura	Director, FIERTE CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Shuichi Fukayama	Director, FIERTE CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Yoko Hosokawa	Director, FIERTE CORPORATION
Corporate Officer	Tatsuru Nakayama	Group CISO, General Manager, Group Management & Control
Corporate Officer	Eriko Satonaka	Group CHRO, General Manager of Group Human Resources

Notes
CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CFO: Chief Financial Officer
CDO: Chief Digital Transformation Officer
CRO: Chief Risk-management Officer
CBO: Chief Busines Development Officer
CISO：Chief Information & Security Officer
CHRO: Chief Human Resources Officer	Ends