Re: Management Changes for the Mizuho Financial Group

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1 To whom it may concern March 13, 2015 Company Name Representative Address Security Code : Mizuho Financial, Inc. : Yasuhiro Sato, President & CEO : 155 Otemachi, Chiyodaku, Tokyo : 8411 (Tokyo Stock Exchange 1 st Section) Re: Management Changes for the Mizuho Financial Mizuho Financial, Inc. hereby announces changes in the directors, corporate auditors and executive officers (including changes in their areas of responsibility, etc.) of the following entities within the : Mizuho Financial, Inc. Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. 1

2 Mizuho Financial, Inc. (MHFG) 1. Directors (1) Director Nominees to be considered at the ordinary general meeting of shareholders of MHFG on June, 2015 ( The Shareholders Meeting ) Yasuhiro Sato* Shusaku Tsuhara* Ryusuke Aya* Junichi Shinbo* Koji Fujiwara* Hideyuki Takahashi Nobukatsu Funaki Mitsuo Ohashi Tetsuo Seki Mr Takashi Kawamura Tatsuo Kainaka Hirotake Abe Ms. Hiroko Ota (Reappointment) (New appointment) (Reappointment) (Reappointment) (Reappointment) (Reappointment) (Reappointment) (Reappointment, Outside Director) (New appointment, Outside Director) (Reappointment, Outside Director) (Reappointment, Outside Director) (New appointment, Outside Director) (Reappointment, Outside Director) Total of 13 nominees (Note) Asterisks indicate directors expected to concurrently serve as executive officers. (2) Directors scheduled to retire at the end of the Shareholders Meeting Yasunori Tsujita Akihiko Nomiyama Kanemitsu Anraku (Currently Director, Deputy President & (Representative Executive ) and scheduled to be Director (not fulltime) as of April 1, 2015) (Currently Outside Director) (Currently Outside Director) 2

3 (3) Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors to be considered at the Board meeting to be held following the Shareholders Meeting Appointee as Chairman Ms. Hiroko Ota Appointee as Deputy Chairman Hideyuki Takahashi (4) Members of Committees to be considered at the Board meeting to be held following the Shareholders Meeting Nominating Committee Chairman Mitsuo Ohashi (Outside Director) Member Takashi Kawamura (Outside Director) Member Tatsuo Kainaka (Outside Director) Member Ms. Hiroko Ota (Outside Director) Compensation Committee Chairman Tatsuo Kainaka (Outside Director) Member Tetsuo Seki (Outside Director) Member Takashi Kawamura (Outside Director) Audit Committee Chairman Hideyuki Takahashi Member Tetsuo Seki (Outside Director) Member Tatsuo Kainaka (Outside Director) Member Hirotake Abe (Outside Director) Member Nobukatsu Funaki Risk Committee Chairman Hideyuki Takahashi Member Hidetaka Kawakita (Outside Expert) Member Ms. Izumi Kobayashi (Outside Expert) (Note) Hidetaka Kawakita and Ms. Izumi Kobayashi are outside experts appointed by the Board of Directors of MHFG. 3

4 (5) Brief Personal Records of Newly Nominated Directors Name Shusaku Tsuhara Date of Birth Jan. 6, 1960 Education Mar Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Keio University Business Experience Joined in Apr Apr. 2010, of Executive Secretariat of Mizuho Financial, Inc. Apr of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. July 2013 of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (current) Name Tetsuo Seki Date of Birth July 29, 1938 Education Mar Graduated from School of Economics, Osaka University Business Experience Apr Joined Yawata Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. June 1993 Director of Nippon Steel Corporation Apr.1997 Director Apr Representative Director and Executive Vice President June 2003 Executive Advisor June 2004 Senior Auditor June 2004 Independent Director of Terumo Corporation (until Sep. 2008) Mar Outside Director of Sapporo Holdings Limited (until Sep. 2008) June 2007 Outside Director of Tokyo Financial Exchange Inc. (until Sep. 2008) Oct Chairperson of The Japan Auditors Association (until Oct. 2008) Oct Outside Director of Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. (until Sep. 2008) June 2008 Executive Advisor of Nippon Steel Corporation (until Sep. 2008) Oct President (Representative Director) of The Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. June 2013 General Advisor (current) 4

5 Name Hirotake Abe Date of Birth Nov. 13, 1944 Education Mar.1968 Graduated from Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University Aug Completed Wharton International Advanced Management Program, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Business Experience Jan Joined Tohmatsu Awoki & Co. June 1985 Temporarily transferred Deloitte & Touche New York Office July 1990 Senior Partner of Tomatsu & Co. June 2001 CEO (until May 2007) June 2004 Executive Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited June 2007 Senior Adviser of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (until Dec.2009) Jan Established the Certified Public Accountant Hirotake Abe Office (current) June 2010 Auditor of CONEXIO Corporation (current) June 2010 Auditor of Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (until Oct. 2012) June 2011 Auditor of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (current) Oct Auditor of NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION (current) 5

6 2. Changes in s Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Head of Strategic Toshitsugu Okabe Deputy President & Executive *1 (Representative ) Planning and Management Control (Personal Banking, Retail Banking and Banking) and Strategic Planning (Priority Deputy President & Executive *1 Head of Strategic Planning and Management Control (Personal Banking, Retail Banking and Banking) Assignments) Head of Strategic Planning and Management Head of Strategic Control Planning and (International Management Banking, Control Akira Senior Investment Senior (International Sugano *1 Banking, *1 Banking, Transaction and Investment Asset Banking and Management) and Asset Strategic Planning Management) (Priority Assignments) Shusaku Tsuhara Senior *1 Head of Compliance Tetsuhiko Saito Senior *1 Head of Personal Banking Unit *2 Head of Personal Banking Unit and Head of Retail Banking Unit Katsunobu Motohashi *1 Head of Asset Management Unit *2 Head of Asset Management Unit 6

7 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Head of Retail Keiichiro Ogushi *1 Banking Unit and Head of Banking Unit Tatsufumi Sakai *1 Head of International Banking Unit *2 Head of International Banking Unit Head of Head of Daisuke Banking Unit Banking Unit Yamada *1 (Large *2 (Large Corporations) Corporations) Head of Kazuya Kobayashi *1 Investment Banking Unit and Head of Transaction *2 Head of Investment Banking Unit Banking Unit Head of Financial Kenji Tsujitsugu *1 Institutions & Public Sector Business Unit of Satoshi Ishii *1 Head of Human Resources *2 Secretariat and for Executive Secretariat In charge of In charge of Hiroshi Senior Compliance with Compliance with Suehiro *2 US FBO *2 US FBO Regulation Regulation Kouji Arita *2 Joint Head of Operations *2 of Operations Planning Masahiro Otsuka *2 Joint Head of Personal Banking Unit *2 of Retail Banking Coordination 7

8 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Deputy Head of Masato Monguchi *2 Risk Management and Deputy Head of Compliance *2 Deputy Head of Compliance Deputy Head of IT Tatsuya Yamada *2 & Systems and Deputy Head of Operations *2 Deputy Head of IT & Systems Deputy Head of Hiroto Koda *2 Retail Banking Unit and Deputy Head of Banking Unit Naomi Tsumura *2 Deputy Head of Compliance Yasuto Hamanishi *2 Deputy Head of Banking Unit of Personal Hidenobu *2 Banking of Mukai Coordination Planning of Asset of Asset Masamichi *2 Management Management Ishikawa Coordination Coordination Makoto Umemiya *2 of Financial Planning of Financial Planning Goji Fujishiro *2 of Executive Secretariat of Executive Secretariat 8

9 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Shuji Kojima *2 of Compliance of Compliance of Next of Next Generation IT Generation IT Naoto Takahashi *2 Systems Coordination Project Team and Systems Coordination Project Team and for Strategic for Planning Planning Head of Internal Control(Risk Director, Deputy Management, Yasunori Tsujita Director (not fulltime) President & *1 (Representative Human Resources and Compliance)and ) Head of Compliance Head of Financial Institutions & Masayuki Hoshi *1 Public Sector Business Unit and Head of Transaction Banking Unit Tomoshige Jingu *1 Head of Human Resources Masayuki Yonetani *2 Head of Banking Unit 9

10 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Deputy Head of Takeru Watanabe *2 Personal Banking Unit and Deputy Head of Retail Banking Unit Tsuyoshi Hatsuzawa *2 Deputy Head of Risk Management Kenichi Minamitani *2 Deputy Head of Compliance Shuzo Fujii *2 Deputy Head of Banking Unit Masaya Usuha *2 Deputy Head of Operations Akira *2 Nakamura (Note) *1: s as Defined in the Companies Act of Banking Coordination (Large Corporations) *2: s as Defined in Our Internal Regulations. 10

11 (Brief Personal Record of New Representative ) Name Toshitsugu Okabe Date of Birth May 2, 1956 Education Mar Graduated from Faculty of Law, Chuo University Business Experience Joined in Apr Apr Apr Apr Apr June 2013 July 2013 Sep Nov Apr June 2014, of Executive Secretariat of Mizuho Financial, Inc. of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Head of Retail Banking Unit (not fulltime), in charge of coordination with Retail Banking Unit of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Deputy President &, Deputy President (Personal Banking Unit and Retail Banking Unit) of Mizuho Financial, Inc. Deputy President, Deputy President (Personal Banking Unit and Retail Banking Unit) and Head of Internal Audit of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (until July 2013) Deputy President &, Deputy President (In charge of coordination with Personal Banking Unit and Retail Banking Unit of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd.) and Head of Internal Audit of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (until July 2013) Deputy President, Deputy President (Personal Banking Unit and Retail Banking Unit) of Mizuho Financial, Inc. (until Sep. 2013) Deputy President, Deputy President (Personal Banking Unit and Retail Banking Unit) and Head of Internal Audit of Mizuho Bank, Ltd.(until Apr. 2014) Deputy President, Deputy President (Personal Banking Unit and Retail Banking Unit) and Head of Compliance of Mizuho Financial, Inc. (until Apr. 2014), in charge of Compliance of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd., in charge of Compliance of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. Deputy President, Deputy President (Head of Strategic Planning and Management Control(Personal Banking, Retail Banking and Banking)) of Mizuho Financial, Inc. Deputy President &, Head of Strategic Planning and Management Control (Personal Banking, Retail Banking and Banking) (current) Number of shares of our common stock owned (as of September 30, 2014): 556,900 11

12 (Brief Personal Records of New s) Name Date of Birth Education Business Experience Shusaku Tsuhara See Brief Personal Records of Newly Nominated Directors Name Keiichiro Ogushi Date of Birth Aug. 20, 1960 Education Mar Graduated from Faculty of Law, Keio University Business Experience Joined in Apr Apr of Banking No.12 of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr. 2011, of Banking Coordination Apr. 2012, of Banking Coordination (Large Corporations) of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd., of Banking Coordination (Large Corporations) of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. July 2013 of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (current) Name Kenji Tsujitsugu Date of Birth Nov. 12, 1962 Education Mar Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University Business Experience Joined in Apr Apr of Financial Institutions & Public Sector Business Coordination Department of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr of Financial Institutions Banking No.2 Apr of Fukuoka Banking Apr. 2013, of Fukuoka Banking July 2013, of Fukuoka Banking of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (current) 12

13 Name Hiroto Koda Date of Birth June 8, 1959 Education Mar Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University Business Experience Joined in Apr May 2009, of Global Planning Dept., Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. Apr. 2011, in charge of Global Planning Dept., Strategic Research Dept., Overseas Office Administration Dept., Beijing Representative Office, Shanghai Representative Office, Mumbai Representative Office, BCP Office and Communications Dept. Apr. 2012, in charge of Planning Dept., Business Planning & Promotion Dept., Strategic Research Dept. and Communications Dept. Jan. 2013, Head of Strategic Planning Apr. 2014, Head of Investment Services & Retail Business, Joint Head of Strategic Planning Oct. 2014, Head of Investment Services & Retail Business, Attached to Strategic Planning (current) Name Naomi Tsumura Date of Birth Aug. 12,1959 Education Mar Graduated from Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University Business Experience Joined in Apr May 2009 Joint Head of Asset Management, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. Apr. 2011, in charge of Executive Secretariat and Human Resources Dept. Apr. 2012, Head of Compliance, in charge of Administration Dept., Executive Secretariat, Human Resources Dept. and Legal Dept. Jan. 2013, Head of Human Resources, in charge of Executive Secretariat Apr. 2013, Joint Head of Internal Audit (current) Name Yasuto Hamanishi Date of Birth Oct.11, 1959 Education Mar Graduated from Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha University Business Experience Joined in Apr Apr Head of Capital Markets, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. Apr. 2012, Head of Capital Markets (current) 13

14 Name Hidenobu Mukai Date of Birth Oct. 27, 1963 Education Mar.1987 Graduated from Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University Business Experience Joined in Apr.1987 Oct Head of Project Management Office of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. July 2011 of Personal Marketing Apr of Planning of Mizuho Financial, Inc. (current) of Planning of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. of Planning of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. July 2013 of Planning of Mizuho Bank, Ltd.(current) Name Masamichi Ishikawa Date of Birth Mar. 28, 1964 Education Mar.1987 Graduated from School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University Business Experience Joined in Apr.1987 Jan Deputy of Derivative Products of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr of Asset Management Coordination of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (until July 2013) of Asset Management Coordination of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (until July 2013) Apr of Asset Management Coordination of Mizuho Financial, Inc. (current) July 2013 of Asset Management Coordination of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (current) Name Makoto Umemiya Date of Birth Dec. 23, 1964 Education Mar.1987 Graduated from School of Economics, Osaka University Business Experience Joined in Apr.1987 Jan Deputy of Portfolio Management of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr of Osaka Branch of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr of Financial Planning of Mizuho Financial, Inc. (current) of Financial Planning of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (current) 14

15 Name Goji Fujishiro Date of Birth Jan. 5, 1965 Education Mar.1987 Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Keio University Business Experience Joined in Apr.1987 Apr of Shinagawa Branch of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr of Banking No.17 of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. July 2013 of Banking No.17 of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr of Executive Secretariat of Mizuho Financial, Inc. (current) of Executive Secretariat of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (current) Name Shuji Kojima Date of Birth Jan. 9, 1965 Education Mar.1987 Graduated from School of Commerce, Meiji University Business Experience Joined in Apr.1987 July 2009 Head of Subsidiaries and Affiliates Management Office of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. July 2011 of ShinjukuNishiguchi Branch and of ShinjukuNishiguchi Branch Ⅰ Apr of Commercial Finance for Small Corporations of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Nov of Compliance of Mizuho Financial, Inc. (current) of Compliance of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (current) Name Naoto Takahashi Date of Birth Jan. 11, 1965 Education Mar.1987 Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Keio University Business Experience Joined in Apr.1987 Apr Deputy of Planning of Mizuho Financial, Inc. Dec Joint of Planning of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (until Apr. 2013) Apr Joint of Planning of Mizuho Financial, Inc. Joint of Planning of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Apr of Nihonbashi Branch No.2 of the former Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Oct of NextGeneration IT Systems Coordination Project Team and for Planning of Mizuho Financial, Inc. (current) for Planning of Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (current) for Planning Department of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (current) 15

16 (Reference) Shown below are s as of April 1, s as Defined in the Companies Act President & CEO (Representative )* Deputy President & (Representative ) Deputy President & Senior Senior Senior Senior * * Yasuhiro Sato Toshitsugu Okabe Daisaku Abe Tadashi Kanki Akira Sugano Shusaku Tsuhara Tetsuhiko Saito Junichi Kato Katsunobu Motohashi Keiichiro Ogushi Tatsufumi Sakai Daisuke Yamada Ryusuke Aya Junichi Shinbo Head of Strategic Planning and Management Control (Personal Banking, Retail Banking and Banking) and Strategic Planning (Priority Assignments) Head of IT & Systems and Head of Operations Head of Internal Audit Head of Strategic Planning and Management Control (International Banking, Investment Banking, Transaction and Asset Management) and Strategic Planning (Priority Assignments) Head of Compliance Head of Personal Banking Unit Head of Markets Unit Head of Asset Management Unit Head of Retail Banking Unit and Head of Banking Unit Head of International Banking Unit Head of Banking Unit (Large Corporations) Head of Risk Management Head of Financial Control & Accounting 16

17 * Koji Fujiwara Head of Strategic Planning Kazuya Kobayashi Head of Investment Banking Unit and Head of Transaction Banking Unit Head of Financial Institutions & Public Kenji Tsujitsugu Sector Business Unit Satoshi Ishii Head of Human Resources (Note) Asterisks indicate executive officers expected to concurrently serve as directors. 17

18 s as Defined in Our Internal Regulations Deputy President & Senior Masaaki Kono Hiroshi Suehiro Haruki Nakamura Kouji Arita Masahiro Otsuka Tadashi Ohi Shinya Tanaka Masato Monguchi Makoto Okayama Nobumitsu Watanabe Kazuhisa Sawa Takashi Kamada Yoshihito Bando Hideo Gamou Deputy President (Western Japan (Kinki, Chugoku, and Shikoku regions)) In charge of Compliance with US FBO Regulation Joint Head of IT & Systems Joint Head of Operations Joint Head of Personal Banking Unit Deputy Head of Human Resources Deputy Head of Investment Banking Unit Deputy Head of Risk Management and Deputy Head of Compliance Deputy Head of Banking Unit (Large Corporations), Deputy Head of Banking Unit and Deputy Head of Financial Institutions & Public Sector Business Unit Deputy Head of International Banking Unit, Deputy Head of Investment Banking Unit, Deputy Head of Transaction Banking Unit and Deputy Head of Markets Unit Deputy Head of Strategic Planning, Deputy Head of Financial Control & Accounting, Deputy Head of IT & Systems and Deputy Head of Operations Deputy Head of Personal Banking Unit and Deputy Head of Retail Banking Unit Deputy Head of Asset Management Unit Deputy Head of Asset Management Unit 18

19 Shuichi Shimada Hidefumi Kobayashi Yoshio Shimizu Tatsuya Yamada Tetsuhiro Sakamoto Junichi Yamada Masuo Fukuda Shinya Hanamura Hiroto Koda Naomi Tsumura Yasuto Hamanishi Kouji Yonei Takahiko Yasuhara Shinji Taniguchi Hidenobu Mukai Masamichi Ishikawa Makoto Umemiya Deputy Head of International Banking Unit, Deputy Head of Investment Banking Unit and Deputy Head of Strategic Planning Deputy Head of Financial Control & Accounting and Deputy Head of Risk Management Deputy Head of International Banking Unit and Deputy Head of Investment Banking Unit Deputy Head of IT & Systems and Deputy Head of Operations Deputy Head of Human Resources Deputy Head of Financial Institutions & Public Sector Business Unit and Deputy Head of Markets Unit Deputy Head of Banking Unit(Large Corporations) Deputy Head of Financial Institutions & Public Sector Business Unit Deputy Head of Retail Banking Unit and Deputy Head of Banking Unit Deputy Head of Compliance Deputy Head of Banking Unit of IT & Systems Planning of International Coordination of Investment Banking Coordination of Personal Banking Coordination of Asset Management Coordination of Financial Planning 19

20 Goji Fujishiro of Executive Secretariat Shuji Kojima of Compliance Naoto Takahashi of NextGeneration IT Systems Coordination Project Team 20

21 Mizuho Bank., Ltd. (MHBK) Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Senior Head of In charge of Shusaku Director and Compliance Tsuhara Senior Banking Hiroshi Senior Head of the Head of the Suehiro Americas Americas Takeshi Senior CoHead of Credit CoHead of Credit Watanabe Masayuki Yonetani Head of Internal Audit Head of Banking Unit Tomoshige Jingu In charge of Banking Head of Human Resources Keiichiro Ogushi Head of Retail Banking Unit and Head of Banking Unit In charge of Banking Head of Kazuya Kobayashi Investment Banking Unit and Head of Transaction Head of Investment Banking Unit Banking Unit Masahiro Miwa In charge of Banking of Banking No.9 Kouji Arita Joint Head of Operations of Operations Planning Takanori Nishiyama In charge of Banking of Omiya Branch 21

22 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Teiji Teramoto Kenji Tsujitsugu Masahiro Otsuka Hiroyuki Mori Satoshi Ishii Hisaaki Hirama Yasuyuki Shibata Koichi Iida Toyoki Oka Head of Europe, (Europe, Middle Middle East and East and Africa) Africa Head of Financial Institutions & of Fukuoka Public Sector Business Unit Banking Head of Personal Banking Unit In charge of Banking Head of Human Resources of Nagoya Banking of Americas Treasury of Banking No.10 for International Banking Unit, Mizuho Bank (China), Ltd. of Retail Banking Coordination of Kobunacho Branch No.2 of Secretariat and for Executive Secretariat of Marunouchichuo No.1 of Americas Treasury of Banking No.10 for International Coordination, Mizuho Bank (China), Ltd. 22

23 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position of Loan Business of Loan Business Ryuuichirou Development Development Oomori for Business Takeshi Collaboration of Human Oka Resources (Securities & Trust Services) Masanobu Kobayashi of Americas Banking No.1 of Americas Banking No.1 Tooru of Wealth of Wealth Koike Marketing Marketing Yohei of Branch Banking of Branch Banking Senba No.3 No.3 Hidenobu Mukai of Personal Banking Coordination of Planning Masaki of Singapore of Singapore Seki Banking Banking Masamichi Ishikawa of Asset Management Coordination of Asset Management Coordination Nobuhisa Zama of International Credit of International Credit 23

24 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Motonori of Industry of Industry Wakabayashi Research Research Makoto of Financial of Financial Umemiya Planning Planning Goji of Executive of Executive Fujishiro Secretariat Secretariat Shuji of Compliance of Compliance Kojima Naoto for Strategic for Takahashi Planning Planning Deputy President Head of Yasunori and Deputy Compliance Tsujita President & Head of Europe, Atsushi Middle East and Narikawa Africa Shiro Tomiyasu Head of Internal Audit Head of Financial Institutions & Masayuki Hoshi Public Sector Business Unit and Head of Transaction Banking Unit Seiichi Kondo In charge of Banking 24

25 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Head of Personal Takeru Banking Unit and Watanabe Head of Retail Banking Unit of Tokyo Main Makoto Office and Tokyo Saito Main Office No.1 of Kyobashi Takahisa Branch Shirota No.2 Takeshi Aono of ALM of Akira Nakamura Banking Coordination (Large Corporations) of Financial Yasuhiko Institutions Morikawa Banking No.1 Tsuyoshi Katayama of Main Office Municipal No.1 Masaya Hamamoto of Banking No.5 Shinichi Takiguchi of Nagoya Banking 25

26 The appointment of Shusaku Tsuhara as director is subject to approval at the general meeting of shareholders of MHBK to be held on April 1,

27 (Reference) Shown below are Directors, Auditors, and s as of April. 1, Directors President & CEO Nobuhide (Representative Hayashi Director)* Deputy President Deputy President (Western Japan (Kinki, (Representative Masaaki Kono Chugoku, and Shikoku regions)) Director)* Deputy President Kosuke (Representative Nakamura Director)* Head of Business Promotion Senior Director (Representative Nobuyuki Fujii Head of Business Promotion Director)* Senior Shusaku Director* Tsuhara Head of Compliance Director* Ryusuke Aya Head of Risk Management Director* Junichi Shinbo Head of Financial Control & Accounting Director* Koji Fujiwara Head of Strategic Planning Director Hideyuki Takahashi Director Hirohisa Kashiwazaki Director (not fulltime) Yasuhiro Sato Director (Outside Director) Yukio Machida Director (Outside Director) Seiji Koga (Note) Asterisks indicate directors expected to concurrently serve as executive officers. 27

28 Auditors Auditor (fulltime) Auditor (fulltime) Auditor (fulltime) Auditor (Outside Auditor) Auditor (Outside Auditor) Auditor (Outside Auditor) Toshinari Iyoda Makoto Kimura Yuta Chiba Masami Ishizaka Isao Imai Toshiaki Hasegawa s Deputy President & Senior Senior Daisaku Abe Hiroshi Suehiro Takeshi Watanabe Junichi Kato Katsunobu Motohashi Masayuki Yonetani Kiyoshi Miyake Tomoshige Jingu Satoshi Miyazaki Keiichiro Ogushi Head of IT & Systems and Head of Operations Head of the Americas CoHead of Credit Head of Markets Unit Head of Asset Management Unit Head of Internal Audit In charge of Banking In charge of Banking In charge of Banking Head of Retail Banking Unit and Head of Banking Unit 28

29 Tatsufumi Sakai Tetsuo Iimori Daisuke Yamada Haruki Nakamura Tsutomu Nomura Hokuto Nakano Katsuyuki Mizuma Yuusei Matsubara Amane Oshima Yasuhisa Fujiki Hikaru Shimomura Ryousuke Joukou Akihiro Nakanishi Kazuya Kobayashi Masahiro Miwa Kouji Arita Takanori Nishiyama Teiji Teramoto Kenji Tsujitsugu Head of International Banking Unit Head of Branch Banking and in charge of Business Collaboration (Securities & Trust Services) Head of Banking Unit(Large Corporations) Joint Head of IT & Systems CoHead of Credit Head of East Asia Head of Asia & Oceania excl. East Asia In charge of Banking Joint Head of Markets Unit In charge of Banking In charge of Banking In charge of Banking In charge of Banking Head of Investment Banking Unit and Head of Transaction Banking Unit In charge of Banking Joint Head of Operations In charge of Banking Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa Head of Financial Institutions & Public Sector Business Unit 29

30 Masahiro Otsuka Head of Personal Banking Unit Hiroyuki Mori In charge of Banking Satoshi Ishii Head of Human Resources Andrew Dewing of Americas Banking No.2 Ryoichi Amino for International Unit, President of Mizuho Bank (China), Ltd. Takashi Saito of Derivative Products Hiroshi Toyoda of Banking No.6 Kouji Yonei of IT & Systems Planning Atsushi Sugao of Banking No.8 Yutaka Abe for International Banking Unit ( Deputy CEO of Vietcombank) Eijo Daimon of China Business Promotion Takashi Yonetsu of Treasury Shingo Asano of Branch Banking Osamu Endo of Bangkok Branch Masatoshi of International Yoshihara Treasury Seiji Imai of Seoul Branch Ms. Atsumi Arima of Advisory Hisaaki Hirama of Nagoya Banking Hiroaki Oda of Banking No.11 Takahiko of International Yasuhara Coordination 30

31 Katsunori Tomita of Tokyo Main Office No.2 Shinji Taniguchi of Investment Banking Coordination Yasuyuki of Americas Treasury Shibata Koichi Iida of Banking No.10 Toyoki Oka for International Banking Unit, Mizuho Bank (China), Ltd. Ryuuichirou of Loan Business Oomori Development Takeshi Oka for Business Collaboration (Securities & Trust Services) Masanobu of Americas Kobayashi Banking No.1 Tooru Koike of Wealth Marketing Yohei Senba of Branch Banking No.3 Hidenobu Mukai of Personal Banking Coordination Masaki Seki of Singapore Banking Masamichi of Asset Management Ishikawa Coordination s Nobuhisa Zama of International Credit Motonori of Industry Research Wakabayashi Makoto of Financial Planning Umemiya Goji Fujishiro of Executive Secretariat Shuji Kojima of Compliance Naoto Takahashi for Strategic Planning 31

32 Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (MHTB) Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Head of Risk Management Director, Head of Director Head of Masato and Compliance and Compliance Monguchi and in charge of Credit Department Head of Risk Director Management Tsuyoshi Director and and in Hatsuzawa charge of Credit Department Masayuki Director Satake Deputy President (Representative Deputy President Masao Head of Business Director) and Head of Business & Executive Yoshikawa Promotion Deputy President Promotion & Executive Head of Stock In charge of Trust Transfer Agency Satoru & Banking Unit and in charge Ochiai Business of Trust & Banking Business Head of Stock Transfer Agency Hiroshi Unit and in charge of Trust Business Kisanuki of Trust & Banking Department III Business Tatsuya of Business Nakamizo of Nagoya Branch Department 32

33 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position of Real Estate of Real Estate Masanori Business Business Takahata Department II Department II Toshio of Compliance Sobue Department Masao of Treasury of Treasury Kanamaru Department Department Takashi of Trust Business Otsuka Department III Hiroaki of Trust Business of Sapporo Ehara Department VI Branch Takashi Nonaka Senior Advisor Chairman Deputy President (Representative Director) and Head of Business Toshihiko Deputy President Promotion Fukuzawa & Executive In charge of Trust Yoshihisa & Banking Kasahara Business Yasutoshi of Trust Business Suzuki Department VI Toshiyuki of Nagoya Branch Kobayashi The appointment of Masayuki Satake as directors is subject to approval at the general meeting of shareholders of MHTB to be held on April 1, Satake qualifies as an outside director under the Companies Act. 33

34 Name Ryuta Nakajima New Position (to become effective in late June 2015) Auditor Current Position Ken Endo Auditor The appointment of Ryuta Nakajima as corporate auditor is subject to approval at the regular general meeting of shareholders of MHTB to be held in late June Nakajima qualifies as an outside corporate auditor under the Companies Act. 34

35 (Brief Personal Records of Newly Nominated Outside Directors and Outside Auditors) Name Masayuki Satake Date of Birth May 16, 1948 Education Mar.1971 Graduated from Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University Business Experience Apr Joined Chuo Audit Corporation Apr Senior Partner Apr Acting Chair of Public Interest Commission, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan Apr Established the Certified Public Accountant Satake Office (current) Apr Professor of Tohoku University Accounting School (until Mar. 2013) June 2012 Statutory Auditor of PCA CORPORATION (current) June 2012 Auditor of ShojiHomu Kenkyukai (Japan Institute of Business Law) (current) Apr Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Accounting & Finance, Chiba University of Commerce (current) June 2013 Auditor of Maezawa Kasei Industries Co.,Ltd. (current) Name Ryuta Nakajima Date of Birth Nov. 9, 1957 Education Mar.1980 Graduated from Faculty of Law, Keio University Business Experience Apr Joined The YASUDA FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. July 2002, Hiroshima Automobile Business Production Department, SOMPO JAPAN INSURANCE INC. Apr. 2005, Financial Institution Marketing Department July 2005, Production & Marketing Department July 2009, Nagano Branch June 2011 (until Sep. 2014) Apr. 2013, NIPPONKOA INSURANCE CO.,LTD. Sep. 2014, SOMPO JAPAN NIPPONKOA INSURANCE INC. (current) * (Note) * Nakajima is expected to retire as on March 31,

36 (Reference) Shown below are Directors, Auditors, and s as of April. 1, Directors President & CEO (Representative Takeo Nakano Director)* Deputy President Head of Human Resources and (Representative Tadashi Ohi Head of Internal Audit Director)* Director* Head of Risk Management, Head Masato of Compliance and in charge of Monguchi Credit Department Director* Kazuhisa Sawa Head of Strategic Planning, Financial Control & Accounting, Head of IT & Systems, Head of Operations and in charge of Executive Secretariat Director (not fulltime) Yasuhiro Sato Director Tsuyoshi Hatsuzawa Director (Outside Director) Masayuki Satake Director (Outside Director) Masaru Ono Director (Outside Director) Eiji Ogawa (Note) Asterisks indicate directors expected to concurrently serve as executive officers. 36

37 Auditors Auditor (fulltime) Auditor (fulltime) Auditor (Outside Auditor) Auditor (Outside Auditor) Tooru Takeda Hiroyuki Hatano Tamio Kurosaki Ken Endo s Deputy President & Masao Yoshikawa Shinya Tanaka Makoto Okayama Nobuaki Kitajima Nobumitsu Watanabe Satoru Ochiai Makio Muramoto Takashi Kamada Yoshihito Bando Head of Business Promotion Head of Real Estate Unit Head of Trust & Banking and Head of Consulting and Business R&D In charge of Trust & Banking Business Head of Custody & Structured Products Unit and in charge of Treasury Department In charge of Trust & Banking Business In charge of Trust & Banking Business Head of Private Wealth Management Business and in charge of Branch Administration Department Head of Pension Business Unit and Head of Investment Management Unit 37

38 Head of Stock Transfer Agency Unit and Hiroshi Kisanuki in charge of Trust & Banking Business Masashi Hara of Real Estate Business Coordination Department Eijiro Yamanaka of Fukuoka Branch Yutaka Sasaki of Active Strategy Fund Management Department Isao Nakamura of Trust & Banking Department Keisuke Saito of Trust Business Department II Tatsuya Nakamizo of Nagoya Branch Masanori of Real Estate Business Takahata Department II Toshio Sobue of Compliance Department Masao Kanamaru of Treasury Department Takashi Otsuka of Trust Business Department III Hiroaki Ehara of Trust Business Department VI 38

39 Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (MHSC) Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Hideo Gamou Masaya Usuha Naomi Tsumura Yoshio Shimizu Tetsuhiko Saito Tatsuya Yamada Masuo Fukuda Shinya Hanamura Shuji Ueno Director and Director and Director and In charge of Investment Services & Retail Business Head of Internal Audit Head of Compliance Joint Head of Global Investment Banking, Joint Head of Investment Banking, Head of General Industries CoHead of Investment Services & Retail Business Head of Global IT, Head of IT & Systems, Head of Operations Joint Head of Investment Banking, Head of Finance & Advisory Dept. Head of Public & Financial Institutions of Nagoya Branch, in charge of & Retail Business Director and Executive Office Head of Asset Management Head of Global Operations, Head of Operations Joint Head of Internal Audit Joint Head of Global Investment Banking, Joint Head of Investment Banking, Head of IB Products, Attached to IB Business Promotion CoHead of Investment Services & Retail Business, Head of Internet and Contact Center Head of Global IT, Head of IT & Systems Joint Head of Investment Banking, Head of Investment Banking Head of Public & Financial Institutions, Head of Advisory of Nagoya Branch 39

40 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Yasuto Hamanishi Akira Nakamura Takahisa Shirota Taiji Kumagai Yoshihiro Kishishita Tadashi Sano Atsushi Takahashi Shinobu Yamazaki Takashi Hirakawa Yu Nakaoki Takafumi Matake Taizo Tomita In charge of IB Business and & Retail Business Head of Telecom Media Technology, in charge of Investment Banking Business In charge of & Retail Business, Branch Business Promotion In charge of & Retail Business In charge of & Retail Business Head of Financial Planning Dept. Head of Global Operations, Joint Head of Operations, Branch Business Promotion In charge of Investment Banking Business Head of Communications Dept., Head of Human Resources Dept., Branch Business Promotion Head of Capital Markets Head of Retail Business, Head of Wealth Management Head of Private Banking Dept. of Sapporo Branch Senior (Attached to Head of Markets & Products and Head of Research ) Senior Executive of Operations Branch Promotion (Attached to Head of Investment Services & Retail Business ) Head of Sector Coverage Dept.V Head of Human Resources Dept. Joint Head of Retail Business Yuzo Kanamori Head of Syndication Head of Planning Dept. 40

41 Name New Position (Effective as of April 1, 2015) Current Position Mitsuhiro Nagahama Senior Advisor Chairman Hajime Saito Kenichi Minamitani Shuzo Fujii Sadanobu Takada Kazuya Yamasato Yoshikiyo Yamazaki Satoshi Sugiyama Deputy President and Deputy PresidentExecutive Deputy President and Deputy PresidentExecutive Head of Internal Audit Head of Compliance Joint Head of Investment Services & Retail Business, Head of IB Business Promotion Attached to Investment Banking of Osaka Branch, Attached to Investment Services & Retail Business Attached to Investment Services & Retail Business of Head Office Sales Dept.II The appointment of Messrs. Masaya Usuha and Naomi Tsumura as directors is subject to approval at the general meeting of shareholders of MHSC to be held on April 1,

42 Name Yasushi Higo New Position (to become effective in late June 2015) Director Auditor (fulltime) Current Position Shigeru Akiyoshi Auditor (fulltime) Sei Toyokawa Auditor (fulltime) Yoshihisa Eguchi Auditor (fulltime) The appointment of Yasushi Higo as director and the appointment of Messrs. Shigeru Akiyoshi and Sei Toyokawa as corporate auditors are subject to approval at the regular general meeting of shareholders of MHSC to be held in late June

43 (Reference) Shown below are Directors, Auditors, and s as of April. 1, Directors President & CEO (Representative Director)* Deputy President (Representative Director) and Deputy President * Deputy President and Deputy President * Director and * Director and * Director and * Director and * Director and * Director Director* Director (not fulltime) Hiroshi Motoyama Yasuhiko Imaizumi Yasuo Agemura Hideo Gamou Shuichi Shimada Hidefumi Kobayashi Masaya Usuha Naomi Tsumura Keizo Ohashi Kenji Fujii Yasuhiro Sato Head of Business Head of Global Markets, Head of Markets & Products, Head of Global Business & Markets In charge of Investment Services & Retail Business Head of Strategic Planning, in charge of Investment Dept. Head of Global Finance, Head of Research, Head of Finance & Accounting, in charge of Due Diligence Dept. Head of Internal Audit Head of Compliance Chairman of Mizuho Securities UK Holdings Ltd., Chairman of Mizuho International plc Head of Global Risk Management, Head of Risk Management Director (Outside Director) Hidetaka Kawakita Director (Outside Director) Masaru Ono (Note) Asterisks indicate directors expected to concurrently serve as executive officers. 43

44 Auditors Auditor (fulltime) Auditor (fulltime) Auditor (fulltime) (Outside Auditor) Auditor (Outside Auditor) Yasushi Higo Yoshihisa Eguchi Hideo Etani Yuji Yoshimasu s Shingo Ishizaki In charge of Investment Banking Business Masahiro Head of Global Investment Banking, Head of Miyamoto Investment Banking Yoshio Shimizu Joint Head of Global Investment Banking, Joint Head of Investment Banking, Head of General Industries Katsunori Nozawa In charge of Investment Banking Business Hiroto Koda Head of Investment Services & Retail Business, Attached to Strategic Planning Tetsuhiko Saito CoHead of Investment Services & Retail Business Tatsuya Yamada Head of Global IT, Head of IT & Systems, Head of Operations Tetsuhiro Head of Human Resources, in charge Sakamoto of Executive Secretariat Junichi Yamada Joint Head of Markets & Products Masuo Fukuda Joint Head of Investment Banking, Head of Finance & Advisory Dept. Sadamu Yoshida In charge of Investment Banking Business Shinya Hanamura Head of Public & Financial Institutions Kentaro Akashi Chairman of Mizuho Securities Asia Limited, in charge of Investment Banking Business 44

45 Shuji Ueno of Nagoya Branch, in charge of & Retail Business Yasuto Hamanishi In charge of IB Business and & Retail Business Akira Nakamura Head of Telecom Media Technology, in charge of Investment Banking Business Takahisa Shirota In charge of & Retail Business Taiji Kumagai, Branch Business Promotion Yoshihiro Kishishita In charge of & Retail Business Hiroshi Shibata In charge of & Retail Business Noriyuki Nogami of Shinjuku Branch Hiroki Takeshi of Kyoto Branch Kazumichi Komatsu of Shibuya Branch Keiji Maruko In charge of Investment Banking Business Tadashi Sano In charge of & Retail Business Takehiko Iida, Branch Business Promotion Atsushi Takahashi Head of Financial Planning Dept. Shinobu Yamazaki Head of Global Operations, Joint Head of Operations Takashi Hirakawa, Branch Business Promotion Yu Nakaoki In charge of Investment Banking Business Takafumi Matake Head of Communications Dept., Head of Human Resources Dept. Taizo Tomita, Branch Business Promotion Yuzo Kanamori Head of Syndication Management changes for the above are on the assumption that any permission required will be obtained from the relevant authorities. 45