Chugoku Marine Paints,ltd.TSE: 4617

Notice Concerning Changes in Officers

Mar 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM UTC · Issued by Chugoku Marine Paints,ltd.

March 28, 2025

Company Name: CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.

Representative: Kenshi Date, President & CEO

(Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange,

Code No. 4617)

Notice Concerning Changes in Officers

CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD. hereby announces that its Board of Directors has resolved, at a meeting on March 28, 2025, to make the following changes in officers.

The changes in directors and executive officers are based on a report from the Nominating Advisory Committee held on February 4, 2025.

1. Changes in directors

Candidates for directors (to be submitted to the 128th annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held in late June 2025)

Name		Reappointment/New		Current position
	appointment

Kenshi Date	Reappointment		Representative Director / President & CEO

Hideyuki Tanaka	Reappointment		Managing Director / Chief of Technical Headquarter

Katsunori Kobayashi	Reappointment		Managing Director / Chief of Administration
	Headquarter


Takao Shimizu	Reappointment		Director / Deputy Chief of Administration
	Headquarter, in charge of Corporate Strategy


Toshifumi Inami	Reappointment		Outside Director

Akiko Monden	Reappointment		Outside Director

				Executive Advisor, Wholesale Business Planning
Takumi Kudo	New appointment		Department, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Panasonic
				Finance Co., Ltd.

Note: Toshifumi Inami, Akiko Monden and Takumi Kudo are candidates for outside directors as stipulated in Article 2, Paragraph 3, Item 7 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Companies Act and candidates for independent officers as stipulated by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Details of the changes

Effective April 1, 2025

Name		New position		Current position
Hideyuki Tanaka		Managing Director, in charge of		Managing Director / Chief of
	Technology and Production		Technical Headquarter


Katsunori Kobayashi		Managing Director, in charge of		Managing Director / Chief of
	Administration and Compliance		Administration Headquarter


				Director /
Takao Shimizu		Director,		Deputy Chief of Administration
	in charge of Corporate Strategy		Headquarter, in charge of Corporate

				Strategy

Scheduled for late June 2025 (to be formally decided by the Board of Directors after the end of the 128th annual general meeting of shareholders)

Name

New position

Position immediately prior to transfer

Hideyuki Tanaka

Senior Managing Director, in charge

Managing Director, in charge of

of Technology and Production

Technology and Production

Reference: Brief personal history of candidate for new director

Name

Brief personal history

Number of

(Date of birth)

shares held

Apr. 1983

Joined Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Oct. 2002

Manager of Athens Office, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Oct. 2009

Outside Corporate Auditor, Orient Marine Co., Ltd.

Outside Corporate Auditor, Mitsui Bussan Aerospace

Co., Ltd.

Oct. 2013

Senior Vice President; Chief Operating Officer of

Machinery & Transportation Systems Product

Business Unit, Mitsui & Co. Europe Ltd

Takumi Kudo

Oct. 2015

President, OMC Shipping Pte. Ltd.

3,000 shares

(December 10, 1960)

Jul. 2018

Counselor of Mobility Business Unit II, Mitsui & Co.,

Ltd.

Jul. 2019

Executive Officer and Chief of Corporate Headquarter,

Orient Marine Co., Ltd.

Apr. 2020

Executive Officer and Chief of Operation Headquarter,

Orient Marine Co., Ltd.

Aug. 2022

Executive Advisor, Wholesale Business Planning

Department, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Panasonic

Finance Co., Ltd. (current)

2. Changes in corporate auditors

Candidates for corporate auditors (scheduled to be submitted to the annual general meeting of shareholders to be held in late June 2025)

Name	Reappointment/New appointment	Current position
		Deputy General Manager of
Tatsuro Enomoto	New appointment	Global Marketing & Planning Division,
		Sales Headquarter / Audit Department

Retiring corporate auditor (at the conclusion of the annual general meeting of shareholders to be held in late June 2025)
Atsushi Ushida (current Standing Corporate Auditor)

Reference: Brief personal history of the candidate for the new Corporate Auditor

Name			Brief personal history		Number of
(Date of birth)				shares held

		Apr. 1985	Joined CHUGOKU MARINE PAINTS, LTD.
		Apr. 2009	General Manager of Shikoku Branch and General
			Manager of Marugame Sales Office, Domestic Sales
			& Marketing Div., Sales Headquarter
		Jul. 2011	General Manager of Tokyo Branch, Domestic Sales &
			Marketing Div., Sales Headquarter
Tatsuro Enomoto	Oct. 2019	Chairman and President of CHUGOKU MARINE
	PAINTS (Shanghai), Ltd.		3,345 shares
(February 17, 1963)
	Chairman and President of CHUGOKU MARINE

			PAINTS (Guangdong), Ltd.
		Nov. 2021	Deputy General Manager of Global Marketing &
			Planning Division, Sales Headquarter
		Apr. 2023	Deputy General Manager of Global Marketing &
			Planning Division, Sales Headquarter /
			Audit Department (current)

3. Changes in executive officers

(1) Effective April 1, 2025

Name		New position		Current position
Hiroyuki Okimoto		Managing Executive Officer /		Senior Executive Officer /
	Chief of Technical Headquarter		Deputy Chief of Technical Headquarter


Koji Akiyama		Managing Executive Officer /		Senior Executive Officer /
	Chief of Sales Headquarter		Chief of Sales Headquarter


		Executive Officer /		Executive Officer /
Shinji Nakamura			Deputy Chief of Administration
	Chief of Administration Headquarter
			Headquarter

Note: The title of "Senior Executive Officer" will be changed to "Managing Executive Officer" as of the same date.

(2) Effective July 1, 2025

Name		New position		Position immediately prior to transfer
Shinji Nakamura		Managing Executive Officer /		Executive Officer /
	Chief of Administration Headquarter		Chief of Administration Headquarter


Moto Kitayaki		Managing Executive Officer /		Executive Officer /
	Chief of Production Headquarter		Chief of Production Headquarter