ASATSU-DK INC : Notice Regarding Candidates for Outside Directors(PDF:96.4 KB)

February 14, 2012

Yoji Shimizu President and Group CEO ASATSU-DK INC. Securities code: 9747

Notice Regarding Candidates for Outside Directors

ASATU-DK INC. (ADK) decided candidates for its outside directors at the board of directors meeting today as below and resolved to submit the resolution to ADK's 57th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on March 29, 2012.

Further reinforcing our actions in the "digital" and "global" areas, the growth areas for the advertisement business, and fulfilling corporate governance are significant management issues for ADK Group. By electing outside directors ADK would like to proactively incorporate external viewpoints, so as to strengthen the Board's supervisory function over the execution of operations, as well as to ensure clarity and appropriateness in the determination of significant matters regarding all aspects of general management, including the operations in the growth areas.

Candidates for Outside Directors and Biography

Candidates (Date of Birth)	Hiroshi Ohbayashi (June 17, 1947)
	Mar. 1970	LLB, Law Department, Hitotsubashi University
	Apr. 1970	Legal apprentice (Judicial Research and Training Institute)
	Apr. 1972	Prosecutor, Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office
	Apr. 1980	First secretary, Embassy of Japan, People's Republic of China
	Apr. 1996	Prosecutor, Tokyo Public High Prosecutors'

Office
Jan. 2002 Deputy Vice-Minister of Justice
June 2006 Assistant Vice Minister of Justice
July 2008 Superintending Prosecutor, Tokyo High Public
Prosecutors' Office June 2010 Prosecutor-General Dec. 2010 Retired from office
Mar. 2011 Registered as attorney (Tokyo Bar Association) (present)
Apr. 2011 Outside Auditor, Daiwa Securities Company
Limited (present)
Candidates
(Date of Birth)
Hideaki Kido
(Apr. 23, 1950)
Mar. 1974 LL.B. (Bachelor of Jurisprudence), Keio
University
Apr. 1974 Joined Itochu Corporation
Apr. 1999 Itochu International Inc. (New York) International Vice President & International Manager
June 2001 Star Channel Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)
Deputy President & Representative Director
Mar. 2003 Japan Entertainment Network K.K. (Cartoon
Network-Japan) President & CEO
June 2007 JSAT Corporation, Executive Officer and
Space Communications Corporation, Director
June 2011 IMAGICA TV Corporation
Chairman of the Board (present)
Candidates
(Date of Birth)
Mochio Umeda
(Aug. 30, 1960)
Mar. 1983 BS, Science and Technology, Keio

University

Mar. 1985 MS, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science

and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Jan. 1988	Joined Arthur D Little Japan, Inc., a consulting company
Oct. 1994	Arthur D Little Director, (U.S. head office)
May 1997	Founded MUSE Associates, LLC in Silicon Valley (present)
Aug. 2000	Co-founded Pacifica Fund, a venture capital fund, in Palo Alto, together with Yukio Okamoto (present)
June 2010	Outside director, Ricoh Company, Limited (present)

Contact:

Kaori Nakajima

Office of Corporate Communications

ASATSU-DK INC. Tel: [phone]

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