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Alpine Electronics, Inc.
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Alpine Announces Management Changes
Tokyo, April 22, 2010—The Board of Directors of Alpine Electronics, Inc., at its meeting held on April 22, 2010, has decided a plan for changes to its management. These changes are subject to approval at the Shareholders Meeting scheduled to be held in late June 2010, and decision at the meeting of the Board of Directors to be held immediately thereafter.
Planned Changes in Representative Directors (as of late June 2009)
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Name |
New Title |
Current Title |
Seizo Ishiguro |
Chairman |
President & CEO |
Toru Usami |
President & CEO |
Senior Managing Director |
After the worldwide recession, Alpine pursued decisive actions for structural reform, and we recognize the positive effect from the activities. Nowadays, we are in the stage of a new start for future growth. Alpine will increase enterprise value as well as corporate performance by rejuvenation of top management with having two representative directors.
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Profile and Career Summary of President to be newly appointed
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Name |
Toru Usami |
Date of Birth |
May 15th ,1950 |
Education |
Graduated from Tokyo Denki University |
Business Experience |
Apr. 1974 Entered Alps Electric Co., Ltd |
Jul. 1991 Senior Manager of OEM International Marketing Dept.1 |
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Apr. 1997 President of Alpine Europe |
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Jun. 2004 Director, President of Alpine America |
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Jun. 2008 Managing Director, Deputy Head of Engineering and Development |
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Jun. 2009 Senior Managing Director, Deputy Head of Engineering and Development |
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Company Shares Held |
10,000 Shares |
Changes in Directors
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1) Managing Directors to be newly appointed |
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Hirofumi Morioka |
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| Current title: Director, Production & Purchasing | |
2) Directors to be newly appointed |
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Toshinori Kobayashi |
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| Current title: General Manager, OEM Marketing | |
Koichi Endo |
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| Current title: Senior Manager, Deputy of Product Development | |
3) Directors to be retired |
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Takumi Sato |
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| Current title: Managing Director, Marketing & Sales | |
| Toji Tanaka | |
| Current title: Managing Director, Finance, Accounting & Administration | |
Kenji Igari |
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| Current title: Director, Core Development | |
4) Auditors to be newly appointed |
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Full-time Statutory Auditor,Toji Tanaka |
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| Current title: Managing Director, Finance, Accounting & Administration | |
Part-time Statutory Auditor,Taisuke Yonemori |
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| Current title: Attorney at Law, Yanagida & Partners | |
5) Auditors to be retired |
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Yoshitake Masuda |
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| Current title: Statutory Auditor | |
Naotaka Okuyama
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Current title: Statutory Auditor |
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