OREANDA-NEWS. May 28, 2012. NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) today announced its board of directors candidates for eight continuing directors and 11 new directors, who will take office immediately following their pending approval at the Thirteenth Annual Shareholders' Meeting scheduled on June 15, 2012.

The 11 new candidates are indicated with an asterisk and their current positions are shown in parentheses.

President and CEO
 Akira Arima

Senior Executive Vice Presidents
 *Tetsuya Shoji1 (Senior Vice President of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
 *Jun Sawada (Executive Vice President)

Executive Vice President
 *Toshiharu Hasebe (Senior Vice President)
 *Koichi Furukawa (Senior Vice President)
 *Kiyoshi Mori

Senior Vice Presidents
 Ryuichi Hara
 Tetsuya Funabashi
 Katsumi Nakata
 Atsushi Ichihoshi
 Masayoshi Hosokawa
 *Yukio Ito (General Manager, Service Infrastructure and Corporate Planning)
 *Toru Maruoka (General Manager, First Sales Division)
 *Kazuhiko Aramoto (Deputy General Manager, Second Sales Division)
 *Kazuhiro Gomi (Senior Manager, Global Sales Division and President & CEO of NTT America)
 *Kazuhisa Igasaki (Senior Manager, Accounts and Finance Department, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)

Statutory Auditors
 Tetsuo Nakayama
 Koji Kainuma
 *You Yusa

The outgoing board members2 are as follows:

Outgoing Senior Executive Vice President
 Shinobu Umino (scheduled to take office as President of NTT COMWARE CORPORATION)
 Sadao Maki (scheduled to take office as Senior Executive Vice President of NTT Urban Development Corporation)

Outgoing Executive Vice President
 Takao Maezawa (scheduled to join NTTPC Communications, Inc.)

Outgoing Senior Vice Presidents
 Masahiro Wakai (scheduled to join NTT Resonant Inc.)
 Hiromi Wasai (scheduled to become NTT Communications Corporate Advisor)
 Kouji Ito

Outgoing Statutory Auditor
 Hideaki Sato

Note 1: Shoji Tetsuya will resign Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation on June 22 and take office as Senior Executive Vice President of NTT Com on the same day.

Note 2: Outgoing board members will resign at the end of the Thirteenth Annual General Shareholders' Meeting on June 15, 2012.