Notice regarding personnel changes of directors

Euglena Co., Ltd.

Euglena Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Mitsuru Izumo) is a candidate for board of directors to be proposed at the annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held on December 18, 2020 at the board of directors meeting on October 23, 2020. We have resolved the personnel change plan for the company, and we would like to inform you as follows. This matter will be officially decided after the General Meeting of Shareholders and the Board of Directors after the General Meeting of Shareholders.

Record

1. Purpose
Yoshio Taki and Tadaaki Kimura, Directors and Audit and Supervisory Committee members, are scheduled to retire at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on December 18, 2020 due to the expiration of their terms of office, so two outside directors will be appointed. ..

2. Candidate for new director
■ Name: Aiko Mochizuki
■ Biography:
April 2002 Joined Chuo Aoyama Audit Corporation
April 2005 Registered as a Certified Accountant
August 2007 Joined Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.
October 2016 Appointed Managing Director of Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (Partner) (current position)
July 2018 Appointed CEO of IGPI Technology Co., Ltd. (current position)

■ Name: Mirai Murakami
■ Biography: Biography:
October 2000 Joined Chuo Aoyama Audit Corporation
June 2004 Registered as a Certified Accountant
November 2006 Joined Investment Banking Headquarters of UBS Securities Japan Co., Ltd. (currently UBS Securities Japan Co., Ltd.)
Joined KPMG Healthcare Japan Co., Ltd. in November 2009
Joined Uzabase Co., Ltd. in November 2012
January 2013 Appointed Executive Officer in charge of Uzabase Management Co., Ltd.
January 2018 Appointed as Special Officer and CFO in charge of Corporate Finance Planning, Uzabase Co., Ltd.
April 2019 Appointed CEO of somebuddy Co., Ltd. (current position)
May 2019 Appointed as an outside director of Bridge Sea Capital Co., Ltd. (current position)
July 2019 Appointed as an outside corporate auditor of INCLUSIVE Inc. (current position)

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Reference: Management system after December 18, 2020

[Director]
Representative Director: Mitsuru Izumo
Vice President and CEO: Akihiko Nagata
Director: Etsuko Okajima
Director: Masahiro Kotosaka
Director Audit and Supervisory Committee Member: Makoto Shimizu
Board Audit and Supervisory Committee Member: Aiko Mochizuki
Director Audit and Supervisory Committee Member: Mirai Murakami
(Note) Mr. Etsuko Okajima will be a part-time internal director after December 18, 2020. Masahiro Kotosaka, Makoto Shimizu, Aiko Mochizuki, and Mirai Murakami will be outside directors.

[Executive Officer]
Executive Officer in charge of Research and Development: Kengo Suzuki
Executive Officer in charge of Sales at Healthcare Company: Takuyuki Fukumoto
Executive Officer in charge of Production Technology Development, Healthcare Company: Ryohei Nakano
Executive Officer and Administration Head: Daisuke Susa
Executive Officer in charge of Corporate Planning, Healthcare Company: Tomohiro Wakahara
Executive Officer and Overseas Business Development Head: Yukoh Satake
Executive Officer in charge of Mail Order Business, Healthcare Company: Junnosuke Awa
Executive Officer and Energy Company CEO: Korehiro
Executive Officer and Bioinformatics Business Head: Shoko Takahashi

<About Euglena Co., Ltd.>
In 2005, we succeeded in establishing the world's first edible outdoor mass culture technology for the Euglena In Euglena and chlorella, we are also conducting research toward the production of biofuels. Euglena GENKI Program, which has been in operation since 2014 to deliver Euglena cookies with abundant nutrients to children in Bangladesh, will be expanded to all group products including cosmetics from April 2019. Listed on TSE Mothers in December 2012. TSE First Section market change in December 2014. We define "Sustainability First" as the Euglena Philosophy and develop our business. https://euglena.jp

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Euglena Co., Ltd. Corporate Communication Division