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Notice Concerning the Selection of Candidates for Directors and Corporate Auditor Members


SB Technology Corp.

We would like to announce that at the Board of Directors meeting held today, the following director and Corporate Auditor candidates were resolved to be submitted to the 32nd Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 26, 2020.

Record

1. Director candidate

Name Title Current position New/Existing appointment
Shinichi Ata
(Shinichi Ata)
Representative Director and President Heavy appointment
Mitsuhiro Sato
(Mitsuhiro Sato)
Member of the Board Heavy appointment
Akira Kitamura
(Kitamura/Akira)
Member of the Board Heavy appointment
Takashi Kodama
(Takashi Kodama)
Member of the Board Heavy appointment
Masaki Watanabe
(Watanabe/Masaki)
Please refer to the biography new
Kimihiko Kaneko *1
(Kaneko Kimihiko)
Member of the Board Heavy appointment
Shigeo Suzuki *2
(Shigeo Suzuki)
External Member of the Board Heavy appointment
Yoshie Munakata *2
(Yoshie Munakata)
External Member of the Board Heavy appointment

2. Candidates Corporate Auditor

Name Title Current position New/Existing appointment
Mitsumasa Ueno
(Ueno Mitsumasa)
Corporate Auditor Heavy appointment
Haruhiko Hirose
(Hirose/Haruhiko)
Corporate Auditor Heavy appointment
Michiaki Nakano
(Michiaki Nakano)
Corporate Auditor Heavy appointment
Takashi Naito
(Takashi Naitou)
Corporate Auditor Heavy appointment

*Member Mitsumasa Ueno, Mr Haruhiko Hirose and Mr Michiaki Nakano are candidates for outside Corporate Auditor.

3. Biography, etc. of new director candidates

Name Masaki Watanabe (Masaki Watanabe)
Date of Birth January 15, 1966
Biography April 1989 Joined Japan Telecom Co., Ltd. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
April 2002 Transferred to J-Phone Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
April 2007 SoftBank Mobile Corp. (currently SoftBank Corp.)
Information Systems Headquarters, Customer Systems Management Department, Customer Systems Department
September 2010 General Manager of Mobile Systems Division, Information Systems Division of the company
May 2014 Deputy General Manager of Information Systems Headquarters of the company
April 2016 SoftBank Corp.
General Manager of Global IT Platform Headquarters
April 2017 General Manager of IT Headquarters, Technology Unit, IT Division of the company
April 2019 Seconded to SoftBank Technology Corp. (currently SB Technology Corp.)
July 2019 Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the company (current position)
April 2020 Transferred to the company (planned)

*As of today, we do not hold any shares in our company.

Four. Directors scheduled to retire (scheduled for June 26, 2020)

Name Title Current position
Yukimasa Goto
(Goto Yukimasa)
Member of the Board

* Yukimasa Goto will be appointed as special assistant to the president on April 1, 2020.

■The PDF of this release can be downloaded from the link below.
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Contact information for inquiries from media regarding this matter

○ SB Technology Corp. Corporate Planning Division Corporate Planning Department
Email: sbt-ir@tech.softbank.co.jp