Announcement of the Appointment of Directors and Substitute Audit & Supervisory Board Member

2023.11.24

Pressrelease

Japan Business Systems, Inc. (Headquarters: Minato Ward, Tokyo; President: Yukihiro Makita; securities code: 5036) passed a resolution today at the Board of Directors’ meeting on the candidates for Director and Substitute Audit & Supervisory Board Member to be referred to the General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on December 22, 2023.

1. Director Candidates

Name	Newly appointed/reappointed	Post and Area of Responsibility at JBS
Yukihiro Makita	Reappointed	President & CEO
Yukimasa Goto	Reappointed	Senior Managing Executive Officer and Director Business Group, Industry Business Management, Manufacturing & Distribution, Digital Sales
Kohei Katsuta	Newly appointed	Executive Officer CFO Finance & General Affairs, Governance Risk Compliance
Naoki Shimada	Reappointed	Outside Director
Toshimitsu Urabe	Reappointed	Outside Director
Shinya Deguchi	Reappointed	Outside Director
Takashi Morisaki	Reappointed	Outside Director

i. Brief Profile History of the Candidate for Director to Be Newly Appointed

Kohei Katsuta

April 1991	Joined Osaka Regional Taxation Bureau
October 1995	Joined Aoyama Audit Corporation (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
May 2006	EY Transaction Advisory Services Co., Ltd (Current EY Strategy and Consulting Co., Ltd.)
August 2010	Joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Co., Lt. (Current PwC Consulting LLC)
July 2016	Joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC
October 2019	Joined JBS as Executive Officer
October 2023	JBS Executive Officer and CFO (current post)

ii. Directors Scheduled to Transfer

Name	New Post Name/Responsibility	Current Post Name/Responsibility
Yukihiro Wada	Managing Executive Officer NEXTSCAPE	Managing Executive Officer and Director NEXTSCAPE

2. Appointment of Substitute Audit & Supervisory Board Member

The appointment of one Substitute Audit & Supervisory Board Member is requested in preparation for a case in which the number of Audit & Supervisory Board Members falls short of the number required by law.

Mika Yanagisawa

April 1990	Joined Mitsubishi Corporation
April 2005	Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (legal apprenticeship 59th term)
October 2006	Joined City-Yuwa Partners
July 2009	Seconded to Amazon Japan G.K.
January 2016	Joined Dyson KK
October 2018	Joined Oak Lawn Marketing, Inc.
June 2021	Outside Auditor at Uluru.Co., Ltd (current position)
February 2023	Outside Auditor at Moderato Inc. (current position)
April 2023	Representative Attorney at Law at Wings Law Office (current position)
May 2023	Outside Director at Narumiya International Co., Ltd.
July 2023	Outside Director at Graniph Inc.