OREANDA-NEWS. April 28, 2011. Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) announced that it has decided on the change for the representative director and the list of candidates for corporate directors and statutory auditor. The official decision on these matters will be made at the annual general meeting of shareholders, held on June 17, and a meeting of the board of directors, which will be held immediately after the general meeting of shareholders.

(1)Changes for the Representative Director (Effective on June 17)
Name New Position Current Position
Tetsuro
Higashi Chairman of the Board Representative Director &
Chairman of the Board
Hirofumi
kitayama Representative Director
Executive Vice President Corporate Director
Executive Vice President


It is the personnel changes for the new management system after the annual general meeting of shareholders in June 2011.


(2)Fifteen Candidates for Corporate Directors
Tetsuro Higashi Hiroshi Takenaka Hirofumi Kitayama
Tetsuo Tsuneishi Kiyoshi Sato Haruo Iwatsu
Kenji Washino Hikaru Ito Takashi Nakamura
Hiroshi Inoue Masahiro Sakane 

*Takaaki Matsuoka (currently Chairman, Tokyo Electron Technology Development Institute, Inc.)
*Masami Akimoto (currently Vice President, Tokyo Electron Ltd.,
President, Tokyo Electron Kyushu Ltd.)
*Yoshiteru Harada (currently Vice President, Tokyo Electron Ltd.)
*Hideyuki Tsutsumi (currently Vice President, Tokyo Electron Ltd.)

*Newly elected

(3)Candidate for Statutory Auditor
Mitsutaka Yoshida (currently Statutory Auditor, Tokyo Electron Ltd.)

(4)Resignation from Corporate Directors
Masao Kubodera (To be elected as Statutory Auditor, Tokyo Electron Yamanashi Ltd.)