Dentsu Announces Prospective Members of the Board and Executive Officers


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2015

Dentsu Announces Prospective Members of the Board and Executive Officers

Dentsu Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004; President & CEO: Tadashi Ishii; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen) today convened a meeting of its Board of Directors at its Head Office in Tokyo to select its prospective Director, Member of the Board candidates to be nominated at the Company's General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in June 2015, and to announce the Executive Officer changes, which will become effective on April 1, 2015, as follows.

1. Incoming and Outgoing Directors, Members of the Board (1) Incoming Directors, Members of the Board

As the terms of all twelve (12) Dentsu Directors, Members of the Board will expire at the conclusion of the June 2015 General Meeting of Shareholders, the following individuals will be nominated as Director, Member of the Board candidates at the same meeting.

11 Director, Member of the Board Candidates

(1 Representative Director, 8 Directors, 2 Outside Directors)

New Position

Name

Current Position

Representative Director

Tadashi Ishii

Representative Director

Director

Shoichi Nakamoto

Director

Director

Yuzuru Kato

Director

Director

Tim Andree

Director

Director

Kunihiro Matsushima

Director

Director

Yoshio Takada

Director

Director

Akira Tonouchi

Director

Director

Kazufumi Hattori

Director

Director

Toshihiro Yamamoto

Director

Outside Director

Yutaka Nishizawa

President of Jiji Press

Outside Director

Masaki Fukuyama

President of Kyodo News

The above candidates will be appointed at the June 2015 General Meeting of

Shareholders. The Representative Director will be appointed at the Board of Directors

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meeting held after the General Meeting of Shareholders.

(2) Outgoing Director, Member of the Board

Current Position

Name

New Position

Director

Akira Sugimoto

Executive Advisor

After retiring, Akira Sugimoto will serve as Executive Advisor. He will be officially appointed at the Board of Directors meeting held after the General Meeting of Shareholders.

2. Incoming and Outgoing Executive Officers (1) Incoming Executive Officers

All of Dentsu's twenty-nine (29) current Executive Officers will resign their positions on
March 31, 2015, and the following Executive Officers will be newly elected on April 1,
2015.

29 Executive Officers (1 President & CEO, 1 Senior Executive Vice President,

2 Executive Vice Presidents, 3 Senior Vice Presidents, 22 Executive Officers)

New Position

Name

Current Position

President & CEO

Tadashi Ishii*

President & CEO

Senior Executive Vice

President & CFO

Shoichi Nakamoto*

Senior Executive Vice

President & CFO

Executive Vice President

Yuzuru Kato*

Executive Vice President

Executive Vice President

Tim Andree*

Executive Vice President

Senior Vice President

Kunihiro Matsushima*

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Yoshio Takada*

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Head of Dentsu Inc. Chubu

Naoki Tani

Senior Vice President

Head of Dentsu Inc. Chubu

Executive Officer

Akira Tonouchi*

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Fumiharu Kobayashi

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Toshihiro Yamamoto*

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Tsuneo Ogasawara

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Head of Dentsu Inc. Kansai

Kazufumi Hattori*

Executive Officer

Head of Dentsu Inc. Kansai

Executive Officer

Nobuyuki Tohya

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Tsuyoshi Iwashita

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Seiji Ito

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Yasuo Motoi

Executive Officer

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Executive Officer

Yuichi Ohkubo

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Yoshiaki Suzuki

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Wataru Mochizuki

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Keiichi Maeda

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Kiyoshi Nakamura

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Jerry Buhlmann

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Hiroaki Sano

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Yoshiharu Sengoku

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Takaki Hibino

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

Toshiya Ohyama

Executive Officer

Executive Officer

(Promoted)

Norio Kamijo

Director, Account

Management Division 15

Executive Officer

(Promoted)

Takashi Yagi

Director,

Account Produce Division

Executive Officer

(Promoted)

Masahiko Hibi

Director, Account

Management Division 1

* Concurrently serving as a Director, Member of the Board.
President & CEO Tadashi Ishii will concurrently serve as the Representative Director.

(2) Outgoing Executive Officers

Current Position

Name

New Position

Senior Vice President

Akira Sugimoto

Executive Advisor

Executive Officer

Kazumichi Iwagami

Executive Advisor

Executive Officer

Tatsuyuki Uchida

Executive Advisor

• Akira Sugimoto will remain as Director, Member of the Board until his term expires in
June 2015.
• When Kazumichi Iwagami and Tatsuyuki Uchida resign their Executive Officer positions, they are expected to serve as Executive Advisors. They will be officially appointed at the Board of Directors meeting to be held in March.
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Contact: Shusaku Kannan

Senior Manager

Corporate Communications Division

Telephone: (813) 6216-8042

E-mail: s.kannan@dentsu.co.jp

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