Changes to Directors and Corporate Auditors2024/04/30

JERA Co., Inc. (“JERA”) announces that its Board of Directors has today determined its candidates for the positions of Directors and Corporate Auditor, for which approval will be sought at the 9th Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting scheduled for late June 2024.

1. Candidates for Directors and Corporate Auditors, Etc.

(1) Candidates for Directors (to be resolved at the 9th Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting scheduled for late June 2024)

Title	Name
Chair, Director	Yukio Kani
President, Director	Hisahide Okuda
Director	Kazuo Sakairi
Director	Tetsuya Watabe
Outside Director*¹	Joseph M. Naylor
Outside Director*¹	Miyuki Suzuki
Outside Director*¹	John Rittenhouse
Outside Director*¹	Lim Hwee Hua
Outside Director*¹	Akihiro Watanabe
Outside Director*¹	Kazuhiro Nabeta
Outside Director*¹	Daisuke Sakai

Representative Directors under Japanese law will be determined at the Board of Directors meeting following the conclusion of the 9th Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting scheduled for late June 2024.

Mr. Kani and Mr. Okuda have been nominated to be appointed as representative directors.

*¹: Indicates (here and below) an outside director as defined in Article 2, Item 15 of the Companies Act.

(2) Candidate for Corporate Auditor (to be resolved at the 9th Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting scheduled for late June 2024)

Title	Name
Outside Corporate Auditor*²	Masahiro Onodera

*²: Indicates (here and below) an outside corporate auditor as defined in Article 2, Item 16 of the Companies Act.

(3) Corporate Auditors (Continuing)

Title	Name
Outside Corporate Auditor	Hideo Oishi
Corporate Auditor	Shuichi Kimura

2. Newly Appointed Directors (to be resolved at the 9th Ordinary General Shareholders’ meeting scheduled for late June 2024)

Name	Inside/Outside	Current Title
Akihiro Watanabe	Outside Director	Chairman, Houlihan Lokey Corp.
Kazuhiro Nabeta	Outside Director	Executive Vice President, Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc.

3. Retiring Directors (at the conclusion of the 9th Ordinary General Shareholders’ meeting scheduled for late June 2024)

Name	Current Title
Satoru Katsuno	Outside Director
Toshihiro Sano	Director

4. Newly Appointed Corporate Auditor (to be resolved at the 9th Ordinary General Shareholders’ meeting scheduled for late June 2024)

Name	New Title	Current Title
Masahiro Onodera	Outside Corporate Auditor	Corporate Auditor, Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd.

5. Retiring Corporate Auditor (at the conclusion of the 9th Ordinary General Shareholders’ meeting scheduled for late June 2024)

Name	Current Title
Michitaka Kondo	Outside Corporate Auditor

Reference: CVs of Newly Appointed Directors and Corporate Auditor[PDF: 179.18 KB]

(1) Akihiro Watanabe (Newly Appointed Director)

(2) Kazuhiro Nabeta (Newly Appointed Director)

(3) Masahiro Onodera (Newly Appointed Corporate Auditor)