Print（PDF/118KB） Mar. 02, 2015 Corporate

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma announces Organizational Realignment and Changes Related to Officers and Other Key Positions

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; President: Masayo Tada) today announced that the following organizational realignment and changes related to its officers and other key positions will take place effective April 1, 2015:

I. Organizational Realignment (effective April 1, 2015)

Corporate Departments

1. 1. Career Development Support is renamed Career Development.
2. 2. Information Systems Planning is renamed Corporate IT Management.
3. 3. The Japanese-language naming of International Business Management is changed.

Corporate Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance (Division)

1. Global Regulatory Compliance Management is dissolved.

Sales & Marketing (Division)

1. 1. Oncology Marketing Unit is created. ^*
2. 2. Psychiatry regions belonging to Divisions "Higashi-Nippon Region" and "Nishi-Nippon Region" are dissolved and Psychiatry Groups are created in Branches.

^* Sales and marketing teams are reorganized to strengthen the base for oncology area in anticipation of the launch of anti-cancer drugs (BBI608 and BBI503) in Japan targeted for fiscal years 2017 and 2018.

II. Changes related to Directors and Executive Officers

(1) New appointments (effective April 1, 2015)

Executive Officer
Toru Kimura (currently Director, Regenerative & Cellular Medicine Office)

Executive Officer
Hajime Kinuta (currently Director, Global Corporate Planning)

(2) Changes in the posts assumed by Executive Officers (effective April 1, 2015)

Post as of April 1, 2015	Current post	Name
Member, Board of Directors, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing; Legal Affairs; Intellectual Property; International Business Management	Member, Board of Directors, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing; Legal Affairs; Intellectual Property; International Business Management	Makoto Hara
Senior Executive Officer Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	Senior Executive Officer Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Head of Global Clinical Development for Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Group	Nobuhiko Tamura
Executive Officer Executive Director, Technology Research & Development; Corporate IT Management	Executive Officer Executive Director, Technology Research & Development; Information Systems Planning	Yoshiharu Ikeda
Executive Officer Director, Personnel; Career Development	Executive Officer Director, Personnel; Career Development Support	Hitoshi Odagiri
Executive Officer Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Head of Global Clinical Development for Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Group	Executive Officer Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	Antony Loebel

III. Changes in Personnel (effective April 1, 2015)

Corporate Departments

Position as of April 1, 2015	Current position	Name
Director, Career Development	Deputy Executive Director, Sales & Marketing	Toru Nakatsuka
Director, Corporate IT Management	Director, Information Systems Planning	Kyoichi Yokota
Director, International Business Management	Director, International Business Management	Atsuko Higuchi

Corporate Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance (Division)

Position as of April 1, 2015	Current position	Name
Director, Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance Management	Director, Clinical & Research Quality Assurance	Yuko Fujiwara
Director, Clinical & Research Quality Assurance	Director, Global Regulatory Compliance Management	Fumio Samizo

Drug Development (Division)

Position as of April 1, 2015	Current position	Name
Director, Medical Affairs	Director, Kyushu-minami Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Takayuki Funabe
Director, Clinical Research	Group Manager, Development Regulatory Affairs Group, Clinical Research	Yumi Sato
Director, Clinical Operation	Director, Oncology Clinical Development Unit	Tsukasa Kiriyama
Director, Oncology Clinical Development Unit	Group Manager, Development Management Group, Project Management Group Manager, Clinical Research & Medical Affairs Group, Oncology Clinical Development Unit	Haruhiko Koike

Sales & Marketing (Division)

Position as of April 1, 2015	Current position	Name
Deputy Executive Director, Sales & Marketing	Director, Distribution Management	Shinjiro Takayama
Deputy Executive Director, Sales & Marketing	Director, Personnel Development	Akira Yamagishi
Director, Product Management & Promotion Planning	Director, CNS Product Management & Promotion Planning	Yukako Nishimaki
Director, CNS Product Management & Promotion Planning	Director, Psychiatry Kinki-Tokai Region, Nishi-Nippon Region	Fukio Kanai
Director, Personnel Development	Deputy Director, Personnel	Ichiro Takahashi
Director, Distribution Management	Director, Hokuriku Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Toshinobu Shiina
Director, Oncology Marketing Unit	Deputy Director, Global Oncology Office	Masayuki Uchibori
Director, Chiba Branch, Higashi-Nippon Region	Director, Psychiatry Higashi-Nippon Region, Higashi-Nippon Region	Ichiro Nagaoka
Director, Tokyo Branch II, Higashi-Nippon Region	Director, Psychiatry Capital Region, Higashi-Nippon Region	Tsuneharu Inoue
Director, Hokuriku Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Director, Chugoku Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Hiroshi Tsujino
Director, Chugoku Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Director, Chiba Branch, Higashi-Nippon Region	Hisayuki Ichikawa
Director, Kyushu-minami Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Director, Psychiatry Nishi-Nippon Region, Nishi-Nippon Region	Osamu Yamamoto