H U : Appointment of Directors and Executive Officers of the Company and its Major Subsidiaries

April 23, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Company name:	H.U. Group Holdings, Inc.
Representative:	Shigekazu Takeuchi, Director,
	President and Group CEO
Securities code:	4544 First Section, Tokyo Stock
	Exchange

Appointment of Directors and Executive Officers of the Company

and its Major Subsidiaries

H.U. Group Holdings, Inc. hereby announces the following appointoments in directors and executive officers of the company and its major subsidiaries, with the dicision at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today (April 23, 2021). The appointment of directors and executive officers is scheduled to be effective as of June 22, 2021, following the General Shareholder's Meeting and the meeting of the Board of Directors.

１．H.U. Group Holdings, Inc.

（１）Candidates for Directors

	Name	New title	Current title		Change
	Shigekazu Takeuchi	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Naoki Kitamura	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Shigehiro Aoyama	Outside Director	Outside Director		Reappointment
	Futomichi Amano	Outside Director	Outside Director		Reappointment
	Ryoji Itoh	Outside Director	Outside Director		Reappointment
	Eriko Matsuno	Outside Director	Outside Director		Reappointment
	Keiji Miyakawa	Outside Director	－		New
		appointment
	Susumu Yamauchi	Outside Director	Outside Director		Reappointment
（２）Retiring Director
	Name	New title	Current title
	Masaya Watanabe	－	Director

（３）Name and brief personal profiles of the new Director

Name	Keiji Miyakawa
Date of birth	November 5, 1958
Profile	Apr.	1982	Joined Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
	Jul.	1988	Joined Bankers Trust Company (currently Deutsche Securities Inc.)
	Jul.	1999	Managing Director, Head of M&A Division, Deutsche Securities Inc.
	Oct.	2006	Vice Chairman, Global Banking, Deutsche Securities Inc.
	Sep.	2009	Chairman-Japan, Lincoln International Inc.
	Jun.	2012	Audit & Supervisory Board Member, ASICS Corporation
	Jun.	2013	External Board Member, ASICS Corporation
	Mar.	2016	Audit & Supervisory Board Member, ASICS Corporation
	Apr.	2016	Representative Director, N.I.Partners Co., Ltd. (incumbent)
	Mar.	2018	Director, Member of the Board, GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
			(incumbent)
	Jan.	2019	Senior Advisor, Lincoln International Inc. (incumbent)
	Sep.	2020	Executive Advisor, MASH Holdings Co., Ltd. (incumbent)

（４）Candidates for Executive Officers

	Name				New title	Current title		Change
	Shigekazu Takeuchi		President and Group CEO1	President and Group CEO		Reappointment
	Naoki Kitamura		Managing Executive Officer	Executive Officer, CFO		Change
	Shunichi Higashi			Executive Officer	Executive Officer		Reappointment
	Goki Ishikawa			Executive Officer	Executive Officer		Reappointment
	Toshihiko Shimizu		Executive Officer, CIO2	－		New
			appointment
	Atsuko Murakami		Executive Officer, CFO3	Executive Officer		Change
	Kazuya Omi			Executive Officer	Executive Officer		Reappointment
	Tadashi Hasegawa			Executive Officer	Executive Officer		Reappointment
	Hiroaki Kimura			Executive Officer	Executive Officer		Reappointment
	1: Chief Executive Officer	2: Chief Information Officer 3: Chief Financial Officer
（５）Retiring Executive Officer
	Name				New title	Current title
	Masaya Watanabe			－	Executive Vice President
			and COO, CIO
（６）Name and brief personal profiles of the new Executive Officer
	Name	Toshihiko Shimizu
	Date of birth	August 24, 1955
	Profile	Apr.	1978	Joined Tokyo Electric Power Company (currently Tokyo Electric Power
					Company Holdings, Incorporated)
		Jun.	2004	General Manager,	Information and Communication Business
					Department, Tokyo Electric Power Company (currently Tokyo Electric
					Power Company Holdings, Incorporated)
		Jun.	2008	Executive Officer and General Manager, Information and Communication
					Business Department, Tokyo Electric Power Company (currently Tokyo
					Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated)
		Jun.	2009	Director, Tokyo Electric Power Company (currently Tokyo Electric Power
					Company Holdings, Incorporated)
					President and Chief Executive Officer, AT TOKYO Corporation
		Jun.	2013	Executive Officer, Secretary General the New Growth Task Force, Tokyo
					Electric Power Company (currently Tokyo Electric Power Company
					Holdings, Incorporated)
		Jun. 2014	Fellow, Tokyo Electric Power Company (currently Tokyo Electric Power
					Company Holdings, Incorporated)
		Jan.	2015	Executive Advisor, IBM Japan, Ltd.
		Jan.	2021	Advisor to the Company (incumbent)

２．SRL Inc.

（１）Candidates for Directors

	Name	New title	Current title		Change
	Shunichi Higashi	President and CEO	President and CEO		Reappointment
	Makoto Matsumoto	Senior Managing Director	Senior Managing Director		Reappointment
	Kaori Wada	Managing Director	Managing Director		Reappointment
	Kazuya Omi	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Noriyuki Fukuda	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Shigekazu Takeuchi	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Naoki Kitamura	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Atsuko Murakami	Director	－		New
		appointment
	Tadashi Hasegawa	Director	Director		Reappointment
（２）Retiring Director
	Name	New title	Current title
	Masaya Watanabe	－	Director

Note: The appointment of Directors is scheduled to be effective as of June 22, 2021, following the General Shareholder's Meeting and the meeting of the Board of Directors.

３．Fujirebio Holdings, Inc.

（１）Candidates for Directors

	Name			New title		Current title		Change
	Goki Ishikawa			President and CEO		President and CEO		Reappointment
	Takeshi Fujita			Director		Director		Reappointment
	Monte Wiltse			Director		Director		Reappointment
	Christiaan De Wilde			Director		Director		Reappointment
	Shigekazu Takeuchi			Director		Director		Reappointment
	Naoki Kitamura			Director		Director		Reappointment
	Atsuko Murakami			Director		Auditor		Change
（２）Retiring Director
	Name			New title		Current title
	Masaya Watanabe			－		Director
（３）Candidate for Auditor
	Name			New title		Current title		Change
	Satoshi Isobe			Auditor		－		New
					appointment
（４）Retiring Auditor
	Name		New title		Current title		Change
	Atsuko Murakami		Director		Auditor		Change

Note: The appointment of Directors and Auditors is scheduled to be effective as of June 22, 2021, following the General Shareholder's Meeting and the meeting of the Board of Directors.

４．Fujirebio, Inc.

（１）Candidates for Directors

	Name		New title	Current title		Change
	Takeshi Fujita		President and CEO	President and CEO		Reappointment
	Katsumi Aoyagi		Director	Director		Reappointment
	Satoshi Saito		Director	Senior Managing Director		Change
	Tadashi Ninomiya		Director	Director		Reappointment
	Shigekazu Takeuchi		Director	Director		Reappointment
	Naoki Kitamura		Director	Director		Reappointment
	Goki Ishikawa		Director	Director		Reappointment
	Atsuko Murakami		Director	－		New
			appointment
	Kazuya Omi		Director	Director		Reappointment
	Tadashi Hasegawa		Director	Director		Reappointment
（２）Retiring Director
	Name		New title	Current title
	Masaya Watanabe		－	Director
（３）Candidate for Auditor
	Name		New title	Current title		Change
	Keiji Shimada		Auditor	－		New
			appointment
（４）Retiring Auditor
	Name		New title	Current title
	Akihito Kusunoki		－	Auditor

Note: The appointment of Directors and Auditors is scheduled to be effective as of June 22, 2021, following the General Shareholder's Meeting and the meeting of the Board of Directors.

５．H.U. Frontier, Inc.

（１）Candidates for Directors

	Name	New title	Current title		Change
	Shunichi Higashi	Chairman and CEO	Chairman and CEO		Reappointment
	Makoto Matsumoto	President and CEO	President and CEO		Reappointment
	Satoru Isago	Director	－		New
		appointment
	Masahiro Imamura	Director	－		New
		appointment
	Shigekazu Takeuchi	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Atsuko Murakami	Director	－		New
		appointment
	Tadashi Hasegawa	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Takeshi Fujita	Director	Director		Reappointment
	Kazuya Sakai	Director	Director		Reappointment
（２）Retiring Director
	Name	New title	Current title
	Naoki Kitamura	－	Director

Note: The appointment of Directors is scheduled to be effective as of June 22, 2021, following the General Shareholder's Meeting and the meeting of the Board of Directors.