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May 11, 2007

TEL Announces Executive Management, Important personnel and Organizational Changes

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) announced that it has decided on the list of candidates for corporate directors and statutory auditors, which will be brought before the 44th General Meeting of Shareholders that will be convened in late June, and that it has determined changes of executives as well. The official decision on these matters will be made at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, held on June 22, and a meeting of the Board of Directors, which will be held immediately after that General Meeting of Shareholders. TEL also announced changes in some of its organizations and personnel changes, which will both take effect on June 22.

1. Thirteen Candidates for Corporate Directors
  Tetsuro Higashi Tetsuo Tsuneishi Kiyoshi Sato
  Haruo Iwatsu Mamoru Hara Masao Kubodera
  Yuichi Honda * Hirofumi Kitayama * Hiroshi Takenaka
  * Kenji Washino * Hikaru Ito Hiroshi Inoue
  Yasuhiro Tsunemi

Note: Asterisk indicates a candidate for appointment as new director.

Personnel Change of Corporate Director
Name Continuing Position New Position Current Position
Haruo
Iwatsu
Corporate Director and Chairman, Tokyo Electron Kyushu Limited Executive Vice President and General Manager,
Development & Manufacturing
SVP、Manufacturing & IT
Masao Kubodera Corporate Director, Technology
& Development
Chairman, Tokyo Electron AT Limited SVP、Technology &
Development
Yuichi Honda Corporate Director, Finance &
Accounting
  SVP
Hirofumi Kitayama General Manager, SPE-3
Division and President &
Representative Director, Tokyo Electron Tohoku Limited
Corporate Director and SVP,
Development & Manufacturing
(Quality)
VP & General Manager
Hiroshi Takenaka Deputy General Manager,
SPE-3 Division /Thermal
Processing Systems BUGM
Corporate Director and SVP VP & General Manager
Kenji Washino Deputy General Manager,
SPE-2 Division /Single Wafer
Deposition BUGM
Corporate Director and SVP VP & General Manager
Hikaru Ito   Corporate Director and SVP and Deputy General Manager,
SPE-2 Division /Etching Systems BUGM
VP & General Manager
and Deputy General Manager,
SPE-1 Division /Clean Track BUGM
2. Candidate for new Statutory Auditor
Mitsutaka Yoshida (currently President & Representative Director, Tokyo Electron Software
Technologies Ltd.)


3. Resignation from Corporate Directors
Kengo Kuroiwa (To be elected as Chairman, Tokyo Electron PS Limited)
Keiichi Furugaki (To be re-elected as Chairman, Tokyo Electron Device Limited)

4. Resignation from Statutory Auditor
Taketoshi Itoyama (To be elected as Chairman & Representative Director, Tokyo Electron Technology Development Institute, Inc.)

5. Partial Organizational Changes effective on June 22, 2007
(1) Technology & Development Division and Manufacturing & IT Division will be abolished, and
Development & Manufacturing Division will be newly established.
(2) MEMS division will be newly established. MEMS Sales Dept. will be newly established under MEMS division and MEMS Business Development Dept. currently under Technology & Development Division will be also under MEMS division.
(3) RLSA division will be newly established. RLSA Sales Dept. will be newly established under RLSA division.
(4) Marketing division will be newly established. Marketing Dept. will be under Marketing division.
(5) Sales & Services, North America & Europe division will be divided in Sales & Services, Europe and Sales & Services, North America.

Name Continuing Position New Position Current Position
Kazushi Tahara   President & Representative
Director, Tokyo Electron
Software Technologies Limited
VP & General Manager, Tokyo
Electron Software Technologies
Limited
Takaaki
Matsuoka
Fellow General manager, RLSA
and President & Representative Director, Tokyo Electron
Technology Development
Institute, Inc.
Senior Specialist, RLSA Plasma Project
Makoto Mizokuchi General Manager, Sales &
Services Division
Senior Fellow SVP, General Manager, Sales & Services, Japan
Masami Akimoto SVP, Tokyo Electron Kyushu Limited SVP, General Manager,
Development
 
Akira
Miura
General Manager, SPE-1
Division and President &
Representative Director,
Tokyo Electron Kyushu
Limited
  VP & General Manager
Kozo
Hara
General Manager, SPE-2
Division and President &
Representative Director,
Tokyo Electron AT Limited
  VP & General Manager
Tsuyoshi Aruga General Manager, SPE-4
Division and President &
Representative Director,
Tokyo Electron TS Limited
  VP & General Manager
Takashi
Ito
  SVP and Deputy General
Manager, SPE-1 Division /Clean
Track BU
VP & General Manager
and Deputy General Manager,
SPE-2 Division /Etching
Systems BU
Yoshikazu Nunokawa VP & General Manager, HR and Finance   Director, Personnel Dept.
Hideyuki Tsutsumi   VP & General Manager, Sales
& Services, Japan
Director, Thermal Processing
Systems Business Planning Dept.
Kiyoshi Sunohara VP & General Manager General Manager, Marketing General Manager, Sales &
Services, North America & Europe
Yoichi Ishikawa   EVP, TEL Epion, Inc. VP & General Manager,
Marketing and Director,
Marketing Dept.
Yoshinori Inoue   VP & General Manager, MEMS Deputy General Manager,
Sales & Services, Japan (West
Japan) and General Manager,
Kyushu Branch Office
Shigetoshi Hosaka VP & General Manager,
Technology & Development
Center, Leading edge Process
Development Center and
Director, Technology &
Development Center
In charge of Development
Planning Dept. and Director,
Development Planning Dept.
 
Hiroshi Tomita   Senior Specialist、MEMS VP & General Manager,
MEMS Business
Takeo
Sasaki
Director (Europe), Sales &
Services, Europe
General Manager, Sales &
Services, Europe
Director (Europe), Sales &
Services, North America & Europe
Koki
Shirai
Director (North America), Sales
& Services, North America
General Manager, Sales &
Services, North America
Director (North America),
Sales & Services, North
America & Europe
Toshiki Kawai   Director, Thermal Processing
Systems Business Planning Dept.
Senior manager, Thermal
Processing Systems Business
Planning Dept.
Hiroshi
Ishida
  Director, Marketing Dept. Director, Intellectual Property Dept.
Tetsuro
Hori
Director, Legal Dept. Director, Intellectual Property Dept.  
Hikaru Oikawa   Director, AIM Dept. Senior Manager, AIM Dept.
Satoshi
Saito
  Senior Specialist, Environment
Health & Safety Center
Director, AIM Dept.
Naozo Sugimoto   Director, MEMS Sales Dept. Director, Sales & Services,
Japan Accounts
Hitoshi
Mizusugi
  Director, RLSA Sales Dept. RLSA Plasma Project
Masayuki Tomoyasu   SVP, TEL Technology Center,
America, LLC
Director, Development Planning Dept.
Kenji
Hotta
  Director, Personnel Dept. Director, Order Process Dept.
Hideaki
Komi
  Director, Order Process Dept. Senior Manager, Order
Process Dept.
Hironori Morikawa Director, Sales & Services,
Japan Accounts
General Manager,
Kyushu Branch Office
 
Hiroaki Miyatake   VP & General Manager, Tokyo
Electron Software Technologies Limited
Deputy General Manager,
Sales & Services, Japan (East Japan)
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