Yukio Nakamura and Kiyomitsu Takayama to be Appointed as Outside Directors

(Head office: Taito-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Sei Kobayashi) has appointed Yukio Nakamura (former Representative Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. ](http://現株式会社pendo.io/). (former Vice President of Pendo Corporation, currently Vice President of Pendo.io. Japan) as outside directors.

♦︎ Yukio Nakamura Biography

April 1973: Joined The Nissan Fire & Marine Insurance Co.

July 2002: Director, Managing Executive Officer, General Manager of Kanto Division, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.

Apr. 2005: Senior Managing Executive Officer and General Manager, Hokuriku Shinetsu Division, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.

June 2006: Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.

Apr. 2007: Senior Managing Executive Officer and Representative Director of the company

June 2009: Appointed as Standing Corporate Auditor

June 2012: Appointed as Non-Executive Advisor to Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.

September 2014: Inauguration of Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Inc. as a part-time advisor

June 2015: Resigned from Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Inc.

♦︎ Kiyomitsu Takayama Biography

April 1999: Joined Nihon Unisys, Ltd.

May 2005: Joined Omniture Corporation (now Adobe Systems Incorporated)

April 2007:Appointed General Manager of Channel Sales Department

July 2012:Joined Cloudera

July 2012:Appointed General Manager, Sales Department, Cloudera

February 2014:Joined Box Japan Inc.

April 2015:Appointed as Executive Officer and General Manager of Sales Department

2018 Apr:Appointed Senior Executive Officer, General Manager of Enterprise Sales 1 and General Manager of Channel Sales

2020 Apr:Appointed Vice President of Global Sales, General Manager of Financial and Government Sales Division, General Manager of Channel Sales Division, and General Manager of Renewal Sales Division

2020 Nov:Appointed Vice President of Pendo.io Japan

Nov. 2020:Vice President of Global and Country Manager of Japan *Current position

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