Notice regarding Director Candidates
May 18, 2020
SMS Co., Ltd. hereby announces that, on May 18, 2020, its Board of Directors has resolved to elect the following candidates for directors to be formally appointed at the 17th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on June 19, 2020.
New titles for each candidate will be officially decided at the Board of Directors’ meeting on the same day.
１．Candidates for Directors who are not Audit and Supervisory Committee Members
| Natsuki Goto | Representative Director, CEO | Representative Director, CEO |
| Masato Sugizaki | Director, CFO | Director, CFO |
２．Candidates for Directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members
| Tomoki Matsubayashi | Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member | Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member |
| Koichiro Ito | Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member | Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member |
| Toyotaro Suzumura (New) | Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member | － |
(Reference) Biography of New Candidate
| Toyotaro Suzumura | |||
| Career summary | April, 2004 Research Staff Member, IBM Research – Tokyo April, 2009 Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology April, 2013 Visiting Associate Professor, University College Dublin October, 2013 Research Staff Member, IBM Research - Ireland December, 2015 Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - IBM Research, New York (current position) April, 2016 Visiting Full Professor, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain (current position) September, 2018 Principal Investigator, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Boston (current position) | ||
３．Alternate Candidate for Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
Taro Mizunuma(Reference) Biography of Candidate
| Taro Mizunuma | |||
| Career summary | April, 2000 Registered as Attorney at Law (Daini Tokyo Bar Association) Miyakezaka Sogo Law Offices April, 2009 Partner, Miyakezaka Sogo Law Offices May, 2012 Shinsei Sogo Law Offices September, 2015 Attorney at Law, Otake Law Offices (current position) |
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４．Resigning Outside Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
Tadaharu Goto
Notice regarding Director Candidates