20.11.2015 07:30:00

Dentsu Announces Prospective Members of the Board and Executive Officers

Dentsu Inc. (TOKYO:4324)(ISIN:JP3551520004)(President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen) today convened a meeting of its Board of Directors at its Head Office in Tokyo to select its prospective Director, Member of the Board candidates to be nominated at the Company’s General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in March 2016, and to announce the Executive Officer changes, which will become effective on January 1, 2016, as follows.

In line with the Company’s change in governance structure also announced today, namely the transition from a company with an audit and supervisory board to a company with an audit and supervisory committee, the Company decided to have independent outside directors comprise at least one third of the nine members of the board of directors, and to have four of these nine directors (including the three independent outside directors) serve as members of the audit and supervisory committee.

1. Incoming and Outgoing Directors, Members of the Board

 

(1) Incoming Directors, Members of the Board

As the terms of all eleven (11) Dentsu Directors, Members of the Board will expire at the conclusion of the March 2016 General Meeting of Shareholders (hereinafter "General Meeting of Shareholders”), the following individuals will be nominated as Director, Member of the Board candidates at the same meeting.
 

9 Director, Member of the Board Candidates

(1 Representative Director, 4 Directors, 4 concurrent Director/Audit and Supervisory Committee Members (1 Director, 3 Independent Outside Directors)

 

New Position

   

Name

   

Current Position

Representative Director Tadashi Ishii Representative Director
Director Shoichi Nakamoto Director
Director Yoshio Takada Director
Director Tim Andree Director
Director Kunihiro Matsushima Director
Director/ Kenichi Kato Audit and Supervisory
Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Committee Member
(newly appointed)
Independent Outside Director/ Atsuko Toyama Outside Audit and
Audit and Supervisory Supervisory Board Member
Committee Member
(newly appointed)
Independent Outside Director/ Toshiaki Hasegawa Outside Audit and
Audit and Supervisory Supervisory Board Member
Committee Member
(newly appointed)
Independent Outside Director/ Kentaro Koga Outside Audit and
Audit and Supervisory Supervisory Board Member
Committee Member
(newly appointed)
 

The above candidates will be appointed at the General Meeting of Shareholders.
The Representative Director will be appointed at the Board of Directors meeting held after the General Meeting of Shareholders.

 

(2) Outgoing Directors, Members of the Board

 

Name

   

Current Position

Yuzuru Kato Director
Akira Tonouchi Director
Kazufumi Hattori Director
Toshihiro Yamamoto Director
Yutaka Nishizawa Outside Director
Masaki Fukuyama Outside Director
 
  • After resigning his position, Yuzuru Kato will serve as Executive Advisor. He will be officially appointed at the Board of Directors meeting held after the General Meeting of Shareholders.

2. Outgoing Audit and Supervisory Board Members
In line with the Company’s transition to a company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee, all the following five Audit and Supervisory Board Members will resign their positions at the General Meeting of Shareholders.

 

Name

   

Current Position

Kaoru Shimura Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Kenichi Kato Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Atsuko Toyama Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Toshiaki Hasegawa Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member
Kentaro Koga Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Member
 
  • Kenichi Kato will be nominated as a concurrent Director/Audit and Supervisory Committee Member candidate, and Atsuko Toyama, Toshiaki Hasegawa and Kentaro Koga as concurrent Independent Outside Director/Audit and Supervisory Committee Member candidates at the General Meeting of Shareholders.
  • After resigning his position, Kaoru Shimura will serve as Executive Advisor. He will be officially appointed at the Board of Directors meeting held after the General Meeting of Shareholders.

3. Incoming and Outgoing Executive Officers

 

(1) Incoming Executive Officers

All of Dentsu’s twenty-nine (29) current Executive Officers will resign their positions on December 31, 2015, and the following Executive Officers will be newly elected on January 1, 2016.
 

30 Executive Officers (1 President & CEO, 1 Senior Executive Vice President,

2 Executive Vice Presidents, 8 Senior Vice Presidents, 18 Executive Officers)

 

New Position

   

Name

   

Current Position

President & CEO Tadashi Ishii* President & CEO
Senior Executive Vice President & CFO Shoichi Nakamoto* Senior Executive Vice President & CFO
Executive Vice President Yoshio Takada* Senior Vice President
Executive Vice President

(Executive Chairman,

Dentsu Aegis Network)

Tim Andree* Executive Vice President

(Executive Chairman,

Dentsu Aegis Network)

Senior Vice President

(Head of Dentsu Inc. Chubu)

Naoki Tani Senior Vice President

(Head of Dentsu Inc. Chubu)

Senior Vice President Akira Tonouchi Executive Officer
Senior Vice President Toshihiro Yamamoto Executive Officer
Senior Vice President

(Head of Dentsu Inc. Kansai)

Kazufumi Hattori Executive Officer

(Head of Dentsu Inc. Kansai)

Senior Vice President Yasuo Motoi Executive Officer
Senior Vice President Wataru Mochizuki Executive Officer
Senior Vice President

(CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network)

Jerry Buhlmann Executive Officer

(CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network)

Senior Vice President Hiroaki Sano Executive Officer
Executive Officer Kunihiro Matsushima* Senior Vice President
Executive Officer Tsuneo Ogasawara Executive Officer
Executive Officer Nobuyuki Tohya Executive Officer
Executive Officer Tsuyoshi Iwashita Executive Officer
Executive Officer Seiji Ito Executive Officer
Executive Officer Yuichi Okubo Executive Officer
Executive Officer Yoshiaki Suzuki Executive Officer
Executive Officer Keiichi Maeda Executive Officer
Executive Officer Kiyoshi Nakamura Executive Officer
Executive Officer Yoshiharu Sengoku Executive Officer
Executive Officer Takaki Hibino Executive Officer
Executive Officer Toshiya Oyama Executive Officer
Executive Officer Norio Kamijo Executive Officer
Executive Officer Takashi Yagi Executive Officer
Executive Officer Masahiko Hibi Executive Officer
Executive Officer

(Newly appointed)

Motohiro Yamagishi Managing Director,

Global Business Center

(CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network China)

Executive Officer

(Newly appointed)

Yutaka Ishikawa Managing Director,

Media Services /

Radio, TV Division

Executive Officer

(Newly appointed)

Misao Toyoda Managing Director, Account

Management Division 3

  *   Concurrently serving as a Director, Member of the Board who is not concurrently serving as a member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee.
President & CEO Tadashi Ishii will concurrently serve as the Representative Director.
 
 

(2) Outgoing Executive Officers

 

Name

   

Current Position

Yuzuru Kato Executive Vice President
Fumiharu Kobayashi Executive Officer
  • Yuzuru Kato will remain as a Director, Member of the Board until his term expires in March 2016.
  • When Fumiharu Kobayashi resigns his Executive Officer position, he is expected to serve as an Executive Advisor.

[About the Dentsu Group]

Dentsu is the world’s largest advertising agency brand. Led by Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004), a company with a history of 114 years of innovation, the Dentsu Group provides a comprehensive range of client-centric brand, integrated communications, media and digital services through its nine global network brands—Carat, Dentsu, Dentsu media, iProspect, Isobar, mcgarrybowen, MKTG, Posterscope and Vizeum—as well as through its specialist/multi-market brands including Amnet, Amplifi, Data2Decisions, Mitchell Communications (PR) and 360i.

The Dentsu Group has a strong presence in 124 countries across five continents, and employs more than 43,000 dedicated professionals. Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd., its global business headquarters in London, oversees Dentsu’s agency operations outside of Japan. The Group is also active in the production and marketing of sports and entertainment content on a global scale.
www.dentsu.com

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