Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members (As of July 1, 2020)

Directors Audit & Supervisory Board Members (KANSAYAKU) Career Background and Specialities, and Tenure of 5 Outside Directors Nobuhiro Endo Kaoru Seto Hajime Kinoshita Chairman of the Board Member of the Board Audit & Supervisory Board Member (full-time) Mr. Endo served NEC as President (Representative Special Adviser, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. Mr. Kinoshita has experience being in charge of the The Board of Directors makes important decisions regarding the Company’s Director) from 2010 and as Chairman of the Board Mr. Seto has extensive experience and deep insight legal and internal control division for many years. business execution, starting with decisions on its basic management policies. (Representative Director) from April 2016. Since as a manager of a logistics service company. It also fulfills the responsibility of overall supervision of business execution, and June 2019, he has served as Chairman of the • Attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors: therefore requires viewpoints based on broad knowledge. The Board of Directors Board (Non-executive Director). 12 out of 12 is formulated with consideration given to diversity in such factors as career background, specialist field, internationality and gender. (Appointed in June 2018) The career background and specialties, and tenure of the 5 Outside Directors are as follows. Takashi Niino Noriko Iki Isamu Kawashima Career background President (Representative Director) and Member of the Board Audit & Supervisory Board Member (full-time) and specialties CEO (Chief Executive Officer) President, Japan Institute for Women’s Mr. Kawashima has experience as the person Empowerment & Diversity Management Logistics After being engaged in the management of the responsible for accounting and financial affairs of Finance services financial solutions business and the NEC Group’s Ms. Iki has abundant experience and deep insight the Company for many years. 1 management strategies, Mr. Niino has been in the fields of administration and diplomacy. 1 engaged in the management of NEC as President • Attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors: (Representative Director) and CEO since April 2016. 12 out of 12 General trading Government and (Appointed in June 2018) company diplomacy 1 1 Food Takayuki Morita Masatoshi Ito Taeko Ishii 1 Senior Executive Vice President, Member of the Board Audit & Supervisory Board Member CFO (Chief Financial Officer) and Chairman of the Board, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Attorney at Law Member of the Board (Representative Director) Mr. Ito has extensive experience as the manager of Ms. Ishii has a lot of experience and deep insight Tenure After being engaged in the management of NEC’s a manufacturing business and deep insight into as an attorney at law in the fields of personnel M&A and global business, Mr. Morita has been in marketing and corporate strategy. affairs, labor and others. charge of its global business strategy and in April • Attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors: • Attendance: At meetings of the Board of Directors: New 2018 was appointed as Representative Director 8 out of 10 12 out of 12 1 and Senior Executive Vice President and Member At meetings of the Audit & Supervisory Board: of the Board. (Appointed in June 2019) 16 out of 16 2 years (Appointed in June 2018) 2

Norihiko Ishiguro Kuniharu Nakamura Nobuo Nakata 1 year Senior Executive Vice President and Member of the Board Audit & Supervisory Board Member 2 Member of the Board Chairman of the Board of Directors, Attorney at Law Mr. Ishiguro has extensive experience and a track Sumitomo Corporation Mr. Nakata has a lot of experience and deep insight record relating to industrial policy and trade policy Mr. Nakamura has extensive experience and deep as an attorney at law in the field of corporate law through his work at the Ministry of Economy, Trade insight, including with global business as the including M&A. and Industry. In addition, he has been in charge of manager of a general trading company. • Attendance: At meetings of the Board of Directors: global business strategy and external relations as • Attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors: 10 out of 10 Senior Executive Vice President since October 2016. 10 out of 10 At meetings of the Audit & Supervisory Board: (Appointed in June 2019) 16 out of 16 Career background and (Appointed in June 2019) specialties of 3 Outside Directors Hajime Matsukura Jun Ohta Masami Nitta Executive Vice President, Member of the Board Audit & Supervisory Board Member NEC appoints as Audit & Supervisory Board Members personnel who have the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) and Director President and Group CEO, Certified Public Accountant knowledge and experience necessary to conduct audits. They have considerable Member of the Board Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. Mr. Nitta has experience in corporate management expertise in finance and accounting or experience as an attorney at law, and After being engaged in the management of Mr. Ohta has extensive experience and deep and professional insight as a Certified Public strengthen the auditing functions of the Audit & Supervisory Board. corporate strategies at corporate departments and in insight with management of a bank. Accountant. the NEC Group’s operational reform, Mr. Matsukura The career background and specialities of the 3 A&SBMs are as follows. is now in charge of the NEC Group’s culture building and human resources development. (Appointed in June 2020) (Appointed in June 2020)

Attorney at law Motoo Nishihara Certified public (personnel affairs, Executive Vice President , accountant labor, etc.) CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and 1 Member of the Board Notes: 1. NEC has notified the Tokyo Stock Exchange of its four independent Directors and three independent 1 Audit & Supervisory Board Members (“A&SBMs”). Mr. Nishihara serves as the Senior Vice President in Independent Directors: Mr. Kaoru Seto, Ms. Noriko Iki, Mr. Masatoshi Ito, Mr. Kuniharu Nakamura; charge of R&D, and is responsible the NEC Group’s For further details on the Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members of Attorney at law R&D and technology strategies. Independent A&SBMs: Ms. Taeko Ishii, Mr. Nobuo Nakata, and Mr. Masami Nitta. NEC Corporation, please visit the following URLs: 2. Attendance at meetings: the number of attendance at meetings (meetings of the Board of Directors or (corporate legal meetings of the Audit & Supervisory Board) out of the number of the meetings held in the fiscal year Directors affairs, etc.) 1 ended March 31, 2020. https://www.nec.com/en/global/about/executives/directors.html 3. Directors whose attendance is not listed attended all of the Board of Directors meetings held during their term of office, and A&SBMs whose attendance is not listed attended all of the Board of Directors Audit & Supervisory Board Members (KANSAYAKU) meetings and all of the Audit & Supervisory Board meetings held during their term of office. https://www.nec.com/en/global/about/executives/auditors.html

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