Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma : Announces Changes of Representative Directors and Executive Officers

February 26, 2021

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Announces Changes of Representative Directors and Executive Officers

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; Representative Director, President and CEO: Hiroshi Nomura; Securities Code: 4506, First Section of TSE) announced today that in its meeting held on February 26, 2021, the Board of Directors decided to change the following Representative Directors and Executive Officers.

I. Representative Directors (effective April 1, 2021)

• (1) Reason

  With the retirement of one of the current Representative Directors, Masayo Tada, from Representative Director, new Representative Directors are appointed.

• (2) New Representative Directors

Name	New position	Current position
Hitoshi Odagiri	Representative Director, Executive Vice President	Member, Board of Directors, Executive Vice President
Toru Kimura	Representative Director, Executive Vice President	Member, Board of Directors, Senior Executive Officer

(3) Retiring Representative Director

Name	New position	Current position
Masayo Tada	Member, Board of Directors, Chairman	Representative Director, Chairman

II. Changes in Executive Officers

(1) Promotions (effective April 1, 2021)

Representative Director, Executive Vice President

Toru Kimura (currently Member, Board of Directors, Senior Executive Officer)

Senior Executive Officer

Hideyuki Harada (currently Executive Officer)

(2) New Executive Officer (effective April 1, 2021)

Kenji Ueno (currently Executive Director, Technology Research & Development Division)

(3) Retiring Executive Officer (effective March 31, 2021)

Shinichiro Katayanagi (currently Executive Officer)

III. Brief Personal History of New Representative Directors

Name:	Hitoshi Odagiri (Mr.)
Birthplace:	Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Education:	Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University.
Birthdate:	January 4, 1957

Business Career:

April 1979	Joined Inabata & Co., Ltd.
Oct. 1984	Joined the former Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
April 2012	Appointed Executive Officer of Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.
April 2016	Appointed Senior Executive Officer
June 2016	Appointed Member, Board of Directors, Senior Executive Officer
April 2019	Appointed Member, Board of Directors, Executive Vice President

Company shares owned: 35,300

Name:	Toru Kimura, Ph.D. (Mr.)
Birthplace:	Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Education:	Completed the Doctoral Program at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto
University.

Birthdate: August 5, 1960 Business Career:

April 1989 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (currently Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.)

Oct. 1992	Joined the former Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
April 2015	Appointed Executive Officer of Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.
June 2016	Appointed Member, Board of Directors, Executive Officer
April 2019	Appointed Member, Board of Directors, Senior Executive Officer

Company shares owned: 30,000

Contact:

Corporate Communications Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.

TEL: [phone] (Osaka); [phone] (Tokyo)