Board Member

ICHIRO TAKESAKO has served as a director since December 28, 2012. Mr. Takesako has held executive positions with Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd or Sumitomo since 1983. Mr. Takesako graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan where he majored in Social Science and graduated with a Degree of Bachelor of Social Science.

In the past few years, Mr. Takesako has held the following executive position in Sumitomo and its affiliates:

June 2008: appointed as General Manager of Sales and Marketing Department of Micro Technology Division

April 2009: appointed as General Manager of Overseas Business Department of Micro Technology Division, in charge of M&A activity of certain business segment and assets of Aviza Technology, Inc.

July 2010: appointed as Executive Director of SPP Process Technology Systems, 100% owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Precision Products then, stationed in Newport, Wales

August 2011: appointed as General Manager, Corporate Strategic Planning Group

January 2013: appointed as Chief Executive Officer of M2M Technologies, Inc., a company invested by Sumitomo Precision products

April 2013: appointed as General Manager of Business Development Department, in parallel of CEO of M2M Technologies, Inc.

April 2014: relieved from General Manager of Business Development Department and is responsible for M2M Technologies Inc. as its CEO

Mr. Takesako was appointed as a Director based on his position with Sumitomo and Sumitomo’s significant partnership with the Company.