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

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