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Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma announces Organizational Realignment and Changes in Executive Officers and Other Key Positions

Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; President: Masayo Tada) ("DSP") today announced that the following organizational realignment and changes in Executive Officers and other key positions will take place as of the respective dates shown below:

I. Organizational Realignment (effective April 1, 2014)

Corporate Departments

Global Strategy and Business Development are integrated into Global Strategy & Business Development.
Secretariat is created.
Business Support Center adds some new functions and is renamed Corporate Service Center.

* The global strategic planning and business development functions of DSP Group are to be managed in an integrated manner, while specific strategic planning and business development will be promoted integrally on a regional basis.

Corporate Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance (Division)

Product Information Center is transferred from Sales & Marketing (Division)

Technology Research & Development (Division)

Investigational Drug Quality Assurance is dissolved.

Sales & Marketing (Division)

Divisions "Capital Region" and "Kinki-Tokai Region" are consolidated into Divisions "Higashi-Nippon Region" and "Nishi-Nippon Region," respectively, and cease to exist as such.
Departments "Region Management" of Regions "Higashi-Nippon", and "Capital" are integrated into Region Management belonging to the realigned Higashi-Nippon Region. Likewise, departments "Region Management" of Regions "Kinki-Tokai" and "Nishi-Nippon" are integrated into Region Management belonging to the realigned Nishi-Nippon Region.

Manufacturing (Division)

Manufacturing Quality Assurance is dissolved.
Manufacturing Technology is created.

II. Changes in Executive Officers

(1) Promotions (effective April 1, 2014)

Senior Executive Officer
Yoshinori Oh-e (currently Executive Officer)

(2) New appointments (effective April 1, 2014)

Member, Board of Directors, Senior Executive Officer
Hiroshi Nomura (currently Member, Board of Directors (Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.))

Executive Officer
Hiroyuki Baba (currently Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.)

(3) Changes in the posts assumed by Executive Officers (effective April 1, 2014)

Post as of April 1, 2014	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 Global Corporate Management; Global Strategy; Business Development; Legal Affairs; Finance & Accounting; International Business Management	Makoto Hara
Member, Board of Directors, Senior Executive Officer Global Corporate Management; Global Strategy & Business Development; External Affairs; Secretariat; Finance & Accounting; Regenerative & Cellular Medicine Office	Member, Board of Directors Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	Hiroshi Nomura
Senior Executive Officer Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Head of Global Clinical Development for DSP Group	Senior Executive Officer Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Executive Director, Drug Development; Head of Global Clinical Development for DSP Group	Nobuhiko Tamura
Senior Executive Officer Executive Director, Corporate Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance; Regulatory Affairs	Executive Officer Director, Business Development	Yoshinori Oh-e
Executive Officer Director, Global R&D Office	Executive Officer Deputy Executive Director, Drug Research; Intellectual Property	Mutsuo Taiji
Executive Officer Executive Director, Drug Development	Executive Officer Executive Director, Corporate Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance; Regulatory Affairs	Nobuyuki Hara

III. Changes in Personnel (effective April 1, 2014)

Corporate Departments
Post as of April 1, 2014	Current post	Name
Director, Internal Auditing Corporate Service Center	Director, Internal Auditing Deputy Finance & Accounting; Business Support Center	Takashi Kutsunai
Director, Corporate Communications	Director, Pharmacovigilance	Akiko Watanabe
Director, Regulatory Affairs	Group Manager, Regulatory Affairs Group, External Affairs	Masakazu Susaki
Director, Secretariat	Director, International Business Management	Yoshihiro Takada
Director, Finance & Accounting	Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.	Hisayoshi Kashima
Director, Information Systems Planning	Group Manager, Media Group, Sales & Marketing Management	Kyoichi Yokota
Director, Procurement	Director, Formulation Research & Development Laboratories	Masumi Ueda
Director, Corporate Service Center	Director, Business Support Center	Masaya Ozaki
Director, International Business Management	Director, Corporate Communications	Atsuko Higuchi

Corporate Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance (Division)
Post as of April 1, 2014	Current post	Name
Deputy Executive Director, Corporate Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance Director, Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance Management	Director, Regulatory Affairs External Affairs	Toru Terashima
Director, Pharmacovigilance	Group Manager, Safety Management Group I, Pharmacovigilance	Keiko Tsuchiya
Director, Medical Information	Group Manager, Products Information Planning Group, Medical Information	Miwako Harada
Director, Product Information Center	Group Manager, Administration Group, Regulatory Compliance & Quality Assurance Management	Masaaki Kotera

Drug Research (Division)
Post as of April 1, 2014	Current post	Name
Deputy Executive Director, Drug Research Director, Global Oncology Office	Director, Global Oncology Office	Shigeyuki Nishinaka
Director, Drug Development Research Laboratories	Deputy Director, Drug Development Research Laboratories	Isao Shimizu

Drug Development (Division)
Post as of April 1, 2014	Current post	Name
Director, Clinical Research	Group Manager, Speciality Group II, Clinical Operation	Itaru Shinohara
Director, Clinical Operation Director, Oncology Clinical Development Unit	Director, Clinical Research	Tatsuya Kimura

Technology Research & Development (Division)
Post as of April 1, 2014	Current post	Name
Director, Formulation Research & Development Laboratories	Director, Clinical Operation Director, Oncology Clinical Development Unit	Takashi Maniwa

Sales & Marketing (Division)
Post as of April 1, 2014	Current post	Name
Deputy Executive Director, Sales & Marketing	Senior Director, Capital Region Director,　Tokyo Branch I	Toru Nakatsuka
Senior Director,　Nishi-Nippon Region	Director,　Nagoya Branch, Kinki-Tokai Region	Mitsuyuki Taniguchi
Director, Psychiatry Capital Region, Higashi-Nippon Region	Group Manager, CNS Product Group I, CNS Product Management & Promotion Planning	Tsuneharu Inoue
Director, Sapporo Branch, Higashi-Nippon Region	Director, Psychiatry Capital Region, Capital Region	Jiro Imura
Director, Kita-kanto Branch, Higashi-Nippon Region	Director, Kobe Branch, Kinki-Tokai Region	Osamu Yasunaga
Director, Tokyo Branch I, Higashi-Nippon Region	Director, Yokohama Branch, Capital Region	Hiroyuki Sano
Director, Yokohama Branch, Higashi-Nippon Region	Group Manager, Himeji Group I, Kobe Branch, Kinki-Tokai Region	Koji Yamazaki
Director, Region Management, Nishi-Nippon Region	Group Manager, Planning & Marketing Group, Sales & Marketing Management	Kenji Toba
Director, Nagoya Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Director, Kyushu-kita Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Shunichi Saito
Director, Kobe Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Group Manager, Shin-Yokohama Hospital Group I, Yokohama Branch, Capital Region	Naoki Nitta
Director, Kyushu-kita Branch, Nishi-Nippon Region	Director, Kita-kanto Branch, Higashi-Nippon Region	Yoshiyuki Mori

Manufacturing (Division)
Post as of April 1, 2014	Current post	Name
Director, Manufacturing Management	Director, Procurement	Motohiko Kimura
Director, Manufacturing Technology	Senior Manager, Manufacturing Technology, Suzuka Plant	Hiroyuki Nishii
Director, Ibaraki Plant	Senior Manager, Manufacturing Technology, Ibaraki Plant	Kenji Ueno
Director, Oita Plant	Senior Manager, Manufacturing, Oita Plant	Atsushi Kaetsu