Feburuary 7, 2022
Company: Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. Representative: Yuichiro Wakatsuki
Representative Executive Officer & Co-President
Wee Siew Kim
Representative Executive Officer & Co-President Contact: Yukiko Yamamoto
General Manager of Public Relations
Email: nphd-kouho@nipponpaint.jp

Notice of the Candidates of the Director of the Board

Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo) announces that the Company has decided at the Nominating Committee held today the Candidates of the Director of the Board effective March 29, 2022 subject to the approval at the 197th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders as follows.

１．Director Candidates (as of March 29, 2022)

*Outside Director of the Board

<Career of the Newly Appointed Director Candidates>

(1) Wakatsuki, Yuichiro (Date of Birth: August 28, 1966)
April 1989            Joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited (Currently Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
March 2000     　Joined Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd. (Currently BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd.)
January 2016 　  Director, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd.
June 2016      　  Vice Chairman, Investment Banking Division, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd.
November 2019  Senior Managing Corporate Officer, Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd.
January 2020      Senior Managing Corporate Officer and CFO, Nippon Paint Holdings　Co., Ltd.
March 2020   　  Senior Managing Executive Officer and CFO, Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd.
April 2021            Representative Executive Officer & Co-President, Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. (current)
May 2021             Director, Nippon Paint Holdings SG Pte. Ltd. [Former Nipsea Pte. Ltd.] (current)
　　　　　　　  Director, DuluxGroup Limited (current)
October 2021      President, Representative Director of the Board, Nippon Paint  Corporate Solutions Co., Ltd. (current)

(2)Wee, Siew Kim (Date of Birth: August 19, 1960)
May 2002            Defence Business President, Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd.
May 2004            Deputy CEO and Defence Business President, Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd.
August 2009       Group CEO, Nipsea Management Company Pte. Ltd.
April 2013           Independent Director, Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Ltd. (current)
May 2017            Independent Director, SIA Engineering Company Limited (current)
August 2019       Director, DuluxGroup Limited (current)
January 2020     Deputy President and Executive Corporate Officer, Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd.
October 2020     Independent Director, Singapore Telecommunications Limited  (current)
April 2021           Representative Executive Officer & Co-President, Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. (current)

(3)Kirby, Peter M (Date of Birth: August 2, 1947)
September 1989　　CEO, Dulux Australia Limited
February 1992　　　ICI Paints Asia Pacific CEO, Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (currently Akzo Nobel N.V.)
September 1995  　  ICI Paints Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
March 1997　　　　Member of Executive Board, Imperial Chemical Industries PLC
March 1998         　   CEO and Managing Director, CSR Limited
July 2003　　　　　Independent Director, Board Chairman, Medibank Private Limited
                                     Independent Director, Macquarie Bank Limited (currently Macquarie Group Limited)
　　　　　　　　　 Independent Director, Orica Limited
June 2008           　    Independent Director, Board Chairman, DuluxGroup Limited

(4)Lim, Hwee Hua (Date of Birth: February 26, 1959)
August 1989　　　  Joined Swiss Bank Corporation (currently UBS Investment Bank)
December 1996　　 Parliament of Singapore
August 2000    　　  Managing Director, Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited
April 2002      　　     Deputy Speaker, Parliament of Singapore
                                     Chairman, Public Accounts Committee
August 2004     　　 Minister of State for Finance, Minister of State for Transport
April 2008         　　  Senior Minister of State for Finance
                          　　   Senior Minister of State for Transport
April 2009                   Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
                                     Second Minister for Finance
                                     Second Minister for Transport
July 2011           　　 Independent Director, Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited (current)
October 2011      　   Senior Advisor, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (current)
July 2014            　    Independent Director, United Oversea Bank Limited

2. Retirement of Director of the Board (as of March 29, 2022)