Suzuki Motor : February 7Notice regarding Change in Personnel of Officers and Executive General Managers

7 February 2023

Notice regarding Change in Personnel of

Officers and Executive General Managers

Suzuki Motor Corporation will make the following change in personnel of officers and executive general managers as of 1 April 2023. The Company also made an internal decision on change in personnel of officers as of the 157th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled in June 2023.

The Directors (eight members) will be officially decided following the approval at the 157th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, and Representative Directors and Directors with titles are to be appointed at the Board of Directors which will be held after the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders.

1. Change in Responsibilities of Directors (as of 1 April 2023)

New	Name	Current
Representative Director and	Osamu Honda	Representative Director and
Senior Technical Executive		Senior Technical Executive
		Responsible for Quality
		Assurance and Inspection,
		Procurement Strategy, and
		Manufacturing
		In charge of Technology and
		Logistics Strategy
Director and Senior	Yukihiro Yamashita	Director and Senior
Managing Officer		Managing Officer
Chief Technology Officer		Responsible for Vehicle
		Regulations and
		Engineering Administration,
		Automobile Vehicle
		Engineering, Automobile
		Powertrain Engineering, and
		Automobile
		Electrical/Electronic

Engineering

Chief Technology Officer

and Executive General

Manager, Automobile

Electrical/Electronic

Engineering

2. Change in Personnel of Officers (as of 1 April 2023)

1. Appointment and Change in Responsibility of Senior Managing Officer

	New	Name	Current
	Senior Managing Officer	Katsuhiro Kato	Managing Officer,
	Responsible for Vehicle		Executive General Manager,
	Regulations and		Quality Assurance and
	Engineering Administration,		Inspection,
	Automobile Vehicle		and Chief Officer, Inspection
	Engineering, Automobile		Reform Committee
	Powertrain Engineering, and
	Automobile
	Electrical/Electronic
	Engineering
	and Executive General
	Manager, Automobile
	Powertrain Engineering
(2) Change in Responsibility of Managing Officer
	New	Name	Current
	Managing Officer	Shigetoshi Torii	Managing Officer
	Responsible for Quality		In charge of manufacturing
	Assurance and Inspection,		in India,
	Procurement Strategy, and		and in charge of carbon
	Manufacturing		neutrality in India,
	and Chief Officer, Inspection		and Joint Managing Director,
	Reform Committee		Maruti Suzuki India Limited
			(in charge of Manufacturing
			and Purchasing),
			and Senior Vice President,
			Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private
			Limited

(3) Appointment of Managing Officers

	New	Name	Current
	Managing Officer,	Naoki Matsuura	Executive General Manager,
	Executive General Manager,		Audit
	Audit
	Managing Officer,	Hidetoshi Kumashiro	In charge of EV Technology,
	Executive General Manager,		EV Operations
	Automobile
	Electrical/Electronic
	Engineering,
	and In charge of EV
	Technology,
	EV Operations
(4) Retirement of Managing Officers
	After retirement	Name	Current
	Councilor,	Yasuharu Osawa	Managing Officer,
	Global Automobile Marketing		Executive General Manager,
			Marine Operations, and
			Managing Officer in charge of
			USA
		Masayoshi Ito	Managing Officer,
			Executive General Manager,
			Motorcycle Operations

3. Change in Personnel of Executive General Managers (as of 1 April 2023)

New	Name	Current
Executive General Manager,	Takashi Ise	Executive General Manager,
Quality Assurance and		Automobile Powertrain
Inspection,		Engineering
and Deputy Chief Officer,
Inspection Reform
Committee
Executive General Manager,	Shuichi Mishima	Senior Advisor,
Marine Operations		Quality Assurance Group,
		Marine Engineering
		Department,
		Marine Operations
Executive General Manager,	Tsuyoshi Tanaka	Department General
Motorcycle Operations		Manager,
		Motorcycle Engineering
		Department,
		Motorcycle Operations
Deputy Executive General	Toshiya Miki	Department General
Manager,		Manager,
and Department General		Corporate Strategy
Manager,		Department,
Corporate Strategy		Corporate Planning Office
Department,
Corporate Planning Office

4. Change in Personnel of Directors

(as of the 157th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled in June 2023)

1. Candidates for New Directors

Name	Current title
Naomi Ishii	Executive Vice President, Assistant to President
	Responsible for Corporate Planning Office,
	New Mobility Service, EV Operations,
	Human Resources Development, Legal/IP,
	Global IT, and Product Planning
	Executive General Manager, Corporate Planning Office
Name	Current title
Naoko Takahashi *1	Executive Board member, Japanese Olympic Committee
	Executive Director, Japan Association of Athletics
	Federations
	Chairman, Para-Sports Development Network of Japan
	Outside Director, Starts Corporation Inc.

*1 Candidate for Outside Director

(2) Retiring Directors

Name

Current title

Osamu Honda

Representative Director and Senior Technical Executive

Yukihiro Yamashita *2 Director and Senior Managing Officer

*2 Will become Senior Managing Officer after retirement as Director

5. Change in Responsibility of Senior Managing Officer as of the 157th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled in June

Name

New title

Yukihiro Yamashita

Senior Managing Officer

based in Maruti Suzuki India Limited,

and Chairman, Suzuki R&D Center India Private Limited

[Reference]

Structure of Officers after the personnel change as of 1 April 2023 (excluding those concurrently serving as Directors) (21 members)

Name	Title
Kenichi Ayukawa	Executive Vice President
	Chief Marketing Officer
	Responsible for India Operations and
	Finance,
	Executive General Manager,
	India Operations
Naomi Ishii	Executive Vice President
	Supporting President
	Responsible for Corporate Planning
	Office, New Mobility Service, EV
	Operations, Human Resources
	Development, Legal/IP, Global IT, and
	Product Planning,
	Executive General Manager,
	Corporate Planning Office
Katsuhiro Kato	Senior Managing Officer
	Responsible for Vehicle Regulations
	and Engineering Administration,
	Automobile Vehicle Engineering,
	Automobile Powertrain Engineering,
	and Automobile Electrical/Electronic
	Engineering
	and Executive General Manager,
	Automobile Powertrain Engineering
Shinichi Imaizumi	Managing Officer,
	Executive General Manager (Domestic
	Marketing Administration & Promotion)