Notification of Changes of Top Management
This is a notification of the appointments of top management made at today’s meeting of the Shimadzu Corporation Board of Directors. A formal decision regarding these personnel will be made following approval at the Annual Shareholders Meeting planned for late June of this year and a subsequent Board of Directors meeting.
Akira NAKAMOTO (69 years old)
New Title : Representative Director, Chairman of the Board
Current Title : Representative Director, President & CEO
Teruhisa UEDA (57 years old)
New Title : Representative Director, President & CEO
Current Title : Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer
General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division
Shigehiko HATTORI will resign as Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, and assume the role of Senior Advisor.
Biography of New President
Company : SHIMADZU CORPORATION
Name : Teruhisa UEDA
Current Title : Director
Senior Managing Executive Officer
Date of Birth : May 14, 1957
Age : 57
Place of Birth : Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
[Education]
January 1995 Ph.D. in Applied Life Science, Kyoto University
March 1982 Graduated from Kyoto University,
Master Degree of Engineering
March 1980 Graduated from Kyoto University,
Bachelor Degree of Industrial Chemistry
[Career]
June 2014 Director, Member of the Board
Senior Managing Executive Officer
General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division
June 2013 Director, Member of the Board
Managing Executive Officer
General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division
June 2011 Director, Member of the Board
General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division
April 2008 Deputy General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division, and General Manager, Life Science Business Department
June 2007 Corporate Officer
Deputy General Manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division
October 2004 General Manager, Quality Assurance Department, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division, and Senior Manager, CS Management Department
October 2000 General Manager, HPLC Business Department, Analytical Instruments Division
April 1982 Joined Shimadzu Corporation

