Aiming to globalize management and strengthen service businesses, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO:8036) announced the change of executives, effective April 1, 2014, as follows:

1. Promotion

Senior Vice President and Executive Officer Toshio Kajimoto (Current position: Vice President and Executive Officer)

Vice President and Executive Officer Katsutaka Kimura (Current position: Executive Officer)

2. Reappointment

Senior Vice President and Executive Officer Masahiro Miyazaki (Current position: President & CEO, Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc.)

Vice President and Executive Officer Hidenori Nagao (Current position: President, Hitachi High-Technologies Europe GmbH)

3. New Appointment

Executive Officer Hirohide Omoto

Executive Officer Hiroshi Tajima

Executive Officer Joji Honda

4. Retirement [Effective March 31, 2014]

Masaho Masuyama (Current position: Representative Executive Officer, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer)

Shinichi Tachi (Current position: Senior Vice President and Executive Officer)

Shuji Sugiyama (Current position: Vice President and Executive Officer)

Yoshikazu Dairaku (Current position: Vice President and Executive Officer)

Hideki Tomioka (Current position: Executive Officer)

Ryuichi Mizutani (Current position: Executive Officer)

Reference

Executive Officers [Effective April 1, 2014]

Representative Executive Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer – Masao Hisada – Overall Management Execution

Senior Vice President and Executive Officer – Takashi Matsuzaka – R&D, Intellectual Property, New Business Creation and Service Businesses

Representative Executive Officer, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer – Toshio Kajimoto – Marketing & Sales Strategy and Science & Medical Systems

Senior Vice President and Executive Officer – Naoki Mitarai* – Human Resources, CSR & Corporate Communications, Legal, Internal Control, Compliance & Risk Management, Environmental Management and Group Company Management

Senior Vice President and Executive Officer – Masahiro Miyazaki – Corporate Strategy and Fine Technology Systems

Vice President and Executive Officer – Morihiro Nishida – IT Strategy and Smart Transformation Project Promotion

Vice President and Executive Officer – Shunichi Uno – Accounting & Finance, Trade Compliance Management, Internal Control and Investor Relations

Vice President and Executive Officer – Katsutaka Kimura – Electronic Device Systems

Vice President and Executive Officer – Hidenori Nagao – Trading

Executive Officer – Toshiyuki Ikeda – Science & Medical Systems

Executive Officer – Ryuichi Nakashima – Internal Audit

Executive Officer – Junichi Hashimoto – Trading (Advanced Industrial Products)

Executive Officer – Hirohide Omoto – Electronic Device Systems

Executive Officer – Hiroshi Tajima – Trading (Industrial & IT Systems)

Executive Officer – Joji Honda – Manufacturing, Procurement and Quality Assurance

Other Personnel Changes [Effective April 1, 2014]

Shinichi Tachi Senior Technical Adviser

Shuji Sugiyama President, Hitachi High-Tech Fielding Corporation

Yoshikazu Dairaku Senior Adviser

Hideki Tomioka President, Hitachi High-Tech Fine Systems Corporation

Ryuichi Mizutani President, Hitachi High-Tech Solutions Corporation

For further information contact:

CSR & Corporate Communications Dept., CSR Div., Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation

Tel: +81-3-3504-7760