Notice Regarding Change of Board of Directors and Executive Officers

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Notice Regarding Change of Board of Directors and Executive Officers

Tokyo, August 14, 2020 - Macromill, Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; hereinafter, “Macromill”) has decided on the change of the following Board of Directors and Executive Officers at its Board of Directors meeting on August 14, 2020.

Regarding the change in the Global CEO, please refer to “Scott Ernst to Step Down as Macromill Global CEO During 2020” disclosed on June 15, 2020 for more detail. The Board of Director nominees will be officially appointed after the 7th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on September 29, 2020, and new Executive Officers will be appointed through the approval at the new Board of Directors meeting after the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

1. Change in Board Directors (effective on September 29, 2020)

(1) Reason for the change

To build a stronger new management structure due to termination of a term

(2) New Board of Director nominees

Name	New Title	Current Title
Toru Sasaki	Director, Representative Executive Officer, Global CEO	Representative Executive Officer,Head of Japan Operation
Makoto Naito	Outside Director	－

(3) Name of Resigning Board Directors

Name	Current Title
Scott Ernst	Director Representative Executive Officer, Global CEO
Akie Iriyama	Outside Director
Lawrence Weber	Outside Director

[Reference] New Board of Directors after the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (5 nominees）

Name	New Title
Toru Sasaki [New]	Director, Representative Executive Officer, Global CEO
Naofumi Nishi [Re-election]	Director
Atsushi Mizushima [Re-election]	Outside Director
Shigeru Nishiyama [Re-election]	Outside Director
Makoto Naito [New]	Outside Director

[Reference] New Board Directors Career Summary

Name	Career Summary
Toru Sasaki	April 1999 Joined Ikko, Inc. December 2002 Joined ABC-MART, Inc. June 2003 Joined Macromill, Inc. June 2010 Executive Officer, Corporate Strategy Division October 2014 Joined Glider Associates, Inc. June 2015 Re-joined Macromill, Inc. October 2015 Executive Officer, Head of Japan Operation September 2018 Representative Executive Officer, Head of Japan Operation (present)
Makoto Naito	April 1978 Joined Sony Corporation September 1999 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Vice President May 2001 Akamai Technologies Japan K.K. , Representative Director and President June 2003 NTT Communications Corporation, Vice President September 2003 Candle Japan Corporation., Representative Director and President August 2004 IBM Japan, Ltd., Executive September 2006 APC Japan, Inc., Representative Director and President August 2009 Schneider Electric Japan Holdings Ltd., Country President Japan/Representative Director and President Toshiba Schneider Inverter Corporation, Director January 2011 Dell Inc., Area Vice President Dell Japan Inc., General Manager of Enterprise Sales November 2012 CA Technologies, Inc., Area Vice President CA Technologies Japan, Inc., Representative Director and President September 2014 Eurotech S.p.A., Group Vice President Japan Advanet, Inc., Representative Director and President May 2015 NCR Japan, Ltd., Representative Director and President NCR Corporation, Vice President December 2018 DXC Technology Japan Ltd., Managing Director January 2020 Naito Holdings, Ltd., President & CEO (present)

2. Change in Executive Officers (effective on September 29, 2020)

(1) Reason for the change

Termination of a term

(2) Name of Resigning Executive Officer

Name	Current Title
Scott Ernst	Director, Representative Executive Officer, Global CEO

[Reference] New Executive Officers after the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (3 nominees）

Name	New Title	Current Title
Toru Sasaki	Director, Representative Executive Officer,Global CEO	Representative Executive Officer,Head of Japan Operation
Masahiro Shimizu	Executive Officer,Global CFO	Executive Officer,Global CFO
Willem Matthijs Elias	Executive Officer,Europe and America Operation MetrixLab CEO	Executive Officer,Europe and America Operation MetrixLab CEO

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Macromill Group companies include: Macromill, Inc., Dentsu Macromill Insight, Inc., H.M. Marketing Research, Inc., M-Cube, Inc., Macromill Carenet, Inc., Centan Inc., Macromill South East Asia, Inc., Macromill Embrain Co., Ltd., MetrixLab B.V.,Oxyme B.V.and Precision Sample, LLC. For more information, please visit our Macromill Group website https://group.macromill.com

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