OREANDA-NEWS. Nikon Corporation today announced that the Meeting of its Board of Directors has decided to nominate new Directors and Officers at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting and the subsequent Meeting of the Board of Directors on June 29, 2016.

Regarding the transition to a Company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee, we separately disclosed in the “Notice Concerning Transition to a Company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee and Partial Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation” as of today.

1. Nominee for New Representative Director

Name Proposed title Current title
Masashi Oka Senior Executive Vice President, CFO
Representative Director		 Special Advisor to the President & CEO of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. and Counselor of Nikon Corporation

2. Nominee for New External Director

* Excluding Directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members

Name Concurrent post
Akio Negishi Director, President, Representative Executive Officer of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company

3. Nominees for New Directors, Audit and Supervisory Committee Members

Name Proposed title Current title
Norio Hashizume Full-time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member Full-time Corporate Auditor
Koichi Fujiu Full-time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member Full-time Corporate Auditor

4. Nominees for New External Directors, Audit and Supervisory Committee Members

Name Concurrent post
Haruya Uehara* Senior Advisor of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
Hiroshi Hataguchi* Attorney at law, Hataguchi Legal Office
Kunio Ishihara Counsellor of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
  • *Current External Corporate Auditor

5. Nominee for Promoting Officer

Name Proposed title Current title
Kiyoyuki Muramatsu Senior Vice President
General Manager of FPD Lithography Business Unit		 Corporate Vice President
General Manager of FPD Lithography Business Unit

6. Nominees for New Officers

Name Proposed title Current title
Hiroyuki Suzuki Corporate Vice President
General Manager of Information Security Division and IT Solutions Division		 General Manager of Information Security Division and IT Solutions Division
Hiroyuki Ikegami Corporate Vice President
Sector Manager of Marketing Sector, Imaging Business Unit		 Department Manager of Marketing Department, Marketing Sector, Imaging Business Unit

7. Retiring Directors

Name Current title
Junichi Itoh Senior Executive Vice President, CFO
Representative Director
Kenji Matsuo External Director
Koukei Higuchi External Director
  • *Junichi Itoh will be nominated as Counselor.

8. Retiring Officer

Name Current title
Kazuyuki Kazami Corporate Vice President, General Manager of Business Development Division
  • *Kazuyuki Kazami will be nominated as Counselor.