Announcement on Organization Changes and Personnel Changes
Tokyo Electron (TEL) announces that the following partial changes in the organization and personnel changes have been decided.
1. Partial Changes in Organization Effective on June 1st, 2017
Increased flexibility in each strategic segment and the creation of high value-added products will become even more important given the expected new stage of growth in the semiconductor and FPD markets against the backdrop of the rapid development of IoT and the advanced network society, so the Development & Production Division will be reorganized as follows.
Development & Production Group
Development & Production 1st Division
(Sadao Sasaki, General Manager)
Main products: Thermal processing system
Development & Production 2nd Division
(Hirofumi Kitayama, General Manager, Masayuki Kojima, Deputy General Manager)
Main products:Etch system
Development & Production 3rd Division
(Masami Akimoto, General Manager, Shinichi Hayashi, Deputy General Manager,
Kiyohisa Tateyama, Deputy General Manager)
Main products: Coater/developers, Surface preparation system , and other systems relating to Wet process
Development & Production 4th Division
(Yoshifumi Tahara, General Manager)
Main products: Test system and FPD etch/ash system
Technology Strategy Division
(Gishi Chung, General Manager)
Advanced Semiconductor Technology Division
2. Personnel Changes for Corporate Directors Effective on June 1st, 2017
| Name | Continuing Position* | New Position | Current Position |
| Tetsuo Tsuneishi | Chairman of the Board | Representative Director & Chairman of the Board | - |
| Sadao Sasaki | Member of the Board EVP & General Manager, Tokyo Electron Ltd. Representative Director & President, Tokyo Electron Tohoku Ltd. | General Manager, Development & Production 1st Division | Representative Director General Manager, Development & Production Division, (Deposition), Product Development Division |
* Some Continuing Positions of Subsidiary's Board of Directors are abbreviated.
3. Personnel Changes for Executive Officers Effective on June 1st, 2017
| Name | Continuing Position* | New Position | Current Position |
| Hirofumi Kitayama | Member of the Board, Tokyo Electron Ltd. Representative Director & President, Tokyo Electron Miyagi Ltd. | EVP & General Manager, Development & Production 2nd Division | - |
| Masami Akimoto | Member of the Board, Tokyo Electron Ltd. Representative Director & President, Tokyo Electron Kyushu Ltd. | EVP & General Manager, Development & Production 3rd Division | SVP & Deputy General Manager, Development Division (Coat & Clean), Development & Production Division |
| Gishi Chung | Member of the Board, SVP & General Manager | General Manager, Technology Strategy Division | Deputy General Manager, Development Division (Process), Development & Production Division |
| Tatsuya Nagakubo | Member of the Board, Business Ethics, CSR Promotion Deputy General Manager,Corporate Administration Division, Human Resources, General Affairs, CSR Promotion | SVP & General Manager | VP & General Manager |
| Yoshifumi Tahara | Representative Director & President, Tokyo Electron Yamanashi Ltd. | SVP & General Manager, Development & Production 4th Division | VP & Deputy General Manager, Development Division (Deposition, ATS/FPD), Product Development Division |
| Yoshinobu Mitano | General Manager, ESBU | SVP & General Manager | VP & General Manager |
| Masayuki Kojima | VP, Tokyo Electron Ltd. Senior Executive Vice President, Tokyo Electron Miyagi Ltd. | Deputy General Manager, Development & Production 2nd Division | Deputy General Manager, Development Division (Etch), Development & Production Division |
| Akihisa Sekiguchi | VP & General Manager | Advanced Semiconductor Technology Division, Technology Strategy Division | Advanced Semiconductor Technology Division, Development & Production Division |
| Kazushi Tahara | VP Director, System Development Center | General Manager, System Development, Development & Production 1st Division | Deputy General Manager, Production Division (DRY), Development & Production Division |
| Toshihiko Nishigaki | VP & General Manager Director, Corporate Project Dept., Development & Production Division, Tokyo Electron Ltd. Chairman & President, TEL FSI, Inc. | Advanced Semiconductor Technology Division Business Innovation, Technology Strategy Division | Development Division(Business Innovation) Development & Production Division |
| Shunichi Iimuro | SVP & General Manager, Tokyo Electron Yamanashi Ltd. | Senior Manager (Certas), Development & Production 2nd Division | Senior Manager, Development Division (Etch), Development & Production Division |
| Shinichi Hayashi | Deputy General Manager, CTSPS BU (SPS), Tokyo Electron Ltd. SVP & General Manager, Tokyo Electron Kyushu Ltd. | VP & Deputy General Manager, Development & Production 3rd Division | Senior Manager, Development Division (Coat & Clean ), Development & Production Division |
| Kiyohisa Tateyama | SVP & General Manager, Tokyo Electron Kyushu Ltd. | VP & Deputy General Manager, Development & Production 3rd Division (Production) | Deputy General Manager, Production Division (WET), Development & Production Division |
| Yuichi Abe | Senior Manager, Business Planning, ATS BU | - | Senior Manager (Marketing of Back End Process), Development & Production Division |
| Hisashi Inoue | VP & General Manager, Tokyo Electron Tohoku Ltd. | Person in charge of Corporate Safety, Development & Production 2nd Division | Person in charge of Corporate Safety, Development & Production Division |
| Seiya Odashima | Director, Customer Engineering Dept., Tokyo Electron Miyagi Ltd. | Vice person in charge of Corporate Safety, Development & Production 2nd Division | Vice person in charge of Corporate Safety, Development & Production Division |
*Some Continuing Positions of Subsidiary's Board of Directors are abbreviated.
4. Personnel Changes Effective on June 1st, 2017
| Name | Continuing Position | New Position | Current Position |
| Sanjeev Kaushal | Account Technology Manager Director, Corp Tech & MTS, Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings, Inc. | Project Leader, Collaborative Innovation Project, Development & Production 1st Division | Senior Manager, Development Division, (Collaborative Innovation), Development & Production Division |
