Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the board changes were approved at a meeting of the Board of Directors on May 11, 2016, and will become effective following the adoption of the resolutions at the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting to be held on June 28, 2016. The board approved appointment of Hidetoshi Shibata as Executive Vice President and CFO. Mikihide Katsumata as Outside Director; Jiro Iwasaki as Outside Director.

The board also approved the resignation of Takao Endo as Member of the Board; Nobuyuki Nakano as Outside Director. Mr. Tetsuro Toyoda will remain in his current post of Outside Director.