177 0 Kommentare Notice of Changes of Representative Directors

TOKYO, Feb. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advantest Corporation hereby announces that the Board of Directors at its meeting held on February 28, 2024, resolved to change the Company’s Representative Directors as follows.

1. Reason for the changes
As the Company’s next mid-term management plan starts in FY2024, the Chief Executive Officer of the Advantest Group and the President of Advantest Corporation are to be changed in order to realize even greater progress for the Advantest Group in the rapidly changing, fast-growing semiconductor industry.

2. Changes of Representative Directors

Name	New Title	Present Title
Douglas Lefever	Representative Director, Senior Executive Officer, Group CEO	Representative Director, Corporate Vice President, Group COO
Koichi Tsukui	Representative Director, Senior Executive Officer and President, Group COO	Representative Director, Corporate Vice President, Group Co-COO
Yoshiaki Yoshida	Director, Chairperson of the Board	Representative Director, President, Group CEO

3. Effective Date

April 1, 2024

[Reference Materials] Brief biographies of the new Group CEO and Group COO

Name (Date of Birth)	Brief biography
Douglas Lefever (December 10, 1970)	May 1993 May 1995 June 1998 June 2004 September 2008 August 2014 September 2014 June 2017 June 2019 June 2020 June 2021 January 2023	Completed BSE of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan Completed Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Joined Advantest America, Inc. Completed Master of Business Administration (MBA) Northwestern University Vice President, Business Development, Advantest America, Inc. Executive Officer, Advantest Corporation Director, President and CEO, Advantest America, Inc. Managing Executive Officer, Advantest Corporation Executive Vice President, System Test Business Unit (present position) Director, Managing Executive Officer Customer Relations & Corporate Strategy Leader, Applied Research & Venture Team Director, Senior Executive Officer CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) Representative Director, Corporate Vice President, Group COO (present position)
Koichi Tsukui (December 11, 1964)	March 1987 April 1987 April 1998 June 2013 June 2014 June 2015 June 2016 June 2018 June 2019 June 2020 June 2021 January 2023	Graduated from Electrical Engineering, School of Technology, Gunma University Joined Advantest Corporation Seconded Advantest (Europe) GmbH (currently Advantest Europe GmbH） Leader, New Business Enabling Division, New Concept Product Initiative Executive Officer Managing Executive Officer Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations Group Executive Vice President, Memory Test Business Unit, ATE Business Group In Charge of DH Business Group Director, Managing Executive Officer Test Technology Leader, ATE Business Group Director, Senior Executive Officer CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Representative Director, Corporate Vice President, Group Co-COO (present position)