Roland : Appointment of Directors, Auditor and Executive Officers (Planned)

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	February 13, 2023
Company:	Roland Corporation
Representative:	Gordon Raison, CEO & Representative Director
	(Securities Code:7944; TSE Prime)
Contact:	Shunsuke Sugiura, CFO & Director
	(Tel. [phone])

Appointment of Directors, Auditor and Executive Officers (Planned)

Roland Corporation (the "Company") hereby announces that the Company made the following internal resolution regarding the appointment of Directors, Auditor and Executive Officers (Planned) at the Board of Directors Meeting held today following the discussion at the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Please be noticed that the appointment of Directors shall be officially resolved after the approval at the 51st Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on March 29, 2023, and the appointment of the Company's Representative Director and Executive Officers shall be officially resolved at the subsequent Board of Directors Meeting

1. Directors (Planned)

1. Candidates for Directors

Name	Current position	Type of appointment
Gordon Raison	Representative Director	Reappointment
Masahiro Minowa	Director	Reappointment
Yasunobu Suzuki	Executive Officer	New appointment
Toshihiko Oinuma	Outside Director	Reappointment
Brian K. Heywood	Outside Director	Reappointment
Mikio Katayama	－	New appointment
Hiroshi Yamamoto	－	New appointment

※Director Shunsuke Sugiura, Outside Director Isao Minabe and Outside Director Sachiko Murase will resign from the Board of Directors of the Company at the conclusion of this General Meeting of Shareholders due to expiry of their terms of office.

1. Career Summary of New Director Candidates

			Number of
Name			shares of
	Career summary	the
Date of birth
		Company
			held
Yasunobu Suzuki	April 1988	Joined Roland Corporation
April 2006	General Manager, Piano Development Dept.
Date of birth:	August 2014	Executive Officer, Development Division	30,700
January 18, 1966	July 2019	Executive Officer, Production Division
	March 2022	Executive Officer, CPO (current)
	April 1981	Joined Sharp Corporation
	April 2006	Representative Director and Senior Managing
		Director
	April 2007	President and Representative Director
	April 2012	Chairman of the Board of Directors
	Sep. 2014	Joined Nidec Corporation
Mikio Katayama	October 2014	Vice Chairman Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
June 2015	Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer
Date of birth:		(CTO)	0
December 12, 1957	June 2020	Vice President Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
	October 2020	Special adviser
	April 2022	Research Advisor, Institute of Industrial
		Science, University of Tokyo (current)
		President and CEO, Kconcept Corporation
		(current)
	Sep. 2022	Advisor, Yoshimoto Integrated Fund Co., Ltd
		(current)
	April 1982	Joined Hitachi Industry Corporation (Currently
		Hitachi, Ltd.)
	October 1988	Joined IBM Japan Ltd.
	April 2008	Technical director
Hiroshi Yamamoto	October 2013	Global Electronics Industry CTO
July 2018	Joined Toshiba Corporation, Corporate
Date of birth:	0
	Digitization CTO
March 30, 1958
April 2019	Corporate Executive Office and VP of Digital
		Innovation Technology Center
	Sep. 2022	Joined NEC Corporation, Managing Executive
		& Chief Architect in the Digital Platform
		Business Unit (current)

2. Appointment of Auditor

(1) Candidate for New Auditor

Name	Current position	Type of appointment

Yoshito Imaishi

－

New appointment

1. Career Summary of New Auditor Candidate

			Number of
Name			shares of
	Career summary	the
Date of birth
		Company
			held
	April 1986	Joined Tabai ESPEC Corporation (Currently
		ESPEC Corporation)
	April 2007	General Manager, Finance and Accounting
		Department
	June 2018	Full-time auditor
Yoshito Imaishi	June 2020	Joined Nipron Co., Ltd, General Manager,
	Corporate Planning Department
Date of birth:	Sep. 2020	Deputy Head of Administration Division and	0
August 3, 1963		General Manager of Corporate Planning
		Department
	April 2021	Executive Officer, Head of Administration
		Division and General Manager of Corporate
		Planning Department
	April 2022	Executive Officer, Head of Administration
		Division

3. Appointment of Executive Officers (Planned on March 29, 2023)

Name	New position	Scope of responsibility
Gordon Raison	Representative Director, CEO	Corporate Management
Masahiro Minowa	Director, CIO	R&D, Product Marketing Division
Yasunobu Suzuki	Director, CPO	Manufacturing, Product Quality
Division
Tim Walter	Executive Officer, CSO	Sales Division
Yuichi Hakamata	Executive Officer, CFO	Accounting, Legal, IR Division
Yuko Maeda	Executive Officer, CHRO	Human Resources, Corp. Affairs
Division

• CEO stand for Chief Executive Officer, CIO stand for Chief Innovation Officer, CPO stand for Chief Production Officer, CSO stand for Chief Sales Officer, CFO stand for Chief Financial Officer, CHRO stand for Chief Human Resource Officer.