Global News

10 May 2012

Appointment of Directors, Company Auditors, and Managing Officers, and retirement of Company Auditors and Senior Managing Officer

Suzuki Motor Corporation will have appointment/retirement of Directors, Company Auditors, Senior Managing Officer, and Managing Officers as per below.

Appointment of Directors and Company Auditors

The appointment is to be officially valid as follows, after being approved at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled on 28 June 2012.

Appointment of Directors

  Name  
Outside Director (non full-time) Masakazu Iguchi Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Outside Director (non full-time) Sakutaro Tanino Former Ambassador in China

Appointment of Company Auditors

New Title Name Current Position
Company Auditor Kunio Nakamura General Manager, Audit Department
Outside Company Auditor (non full-time) Masataka Osuka Representative Director and Chairman, HAMAKYOREX CO., LTD.
Outside Company Auditor (non full-time) Norio Tanaka Certified Public Accountant

Appointment of Managing Officers

New Responsibilities Name Current Title
Managing Officer, and Global Automobile Marketing Chief Regional Officer, China, and CEO, Chongqing Changan Suzuki Automobile, Co., Ltd., and Beijing Office Manager Tadashi Kondo Global Automobile Marketing Chief Regional Officer, China, and CEO, Chongqing Changan Suzuki Automobile, Co., Ltd., and Beijing Office Manager
Managing Officer, and Division General Manager, Global Marine & Power Products Division, and General Manager, Marine & Power Products Marketing Department Motoo Murakami Division General Manager, Global Marine & Power Products Division, and General Manager, Marine & Power Products Marketing Department
Managing Officer, and Deputy Executive General Manager, Automobile Engineering Masato Kasai Deputy Executive General Manager, Automobile Engineering

Retirement of Company Auditors

The retirement is to be officially valid as follows, after being approved at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled on 28 June 2012.

Company Auditor (non full-time) Nobuyasu Horiuchi  
Compnay Auditor (non full-time) Katsuhiko Kume  
Company Auditor Yoshitaka Suzuki Will become the Senior Managing Officer of Suzuki Business Co., Ltd. after retirement

Retirement of Senior Managing Officer

Senior Managing Officer, Domestic Marketing Takeo Shigemoto Will become the Executive Counselor of Suzuki Business Co., Ltd. after retirement