Press release

Notice Regarding Formation of Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members

To all concerned stakeholders,

Asteria Corporation
(TSE Prime Market: 3853)
Contact: SAITO Yasuhisa, CFO
(Phone: +81-3-5718-1655)

Tokyo — June 26, 2023 — Asteria Corporation hereby announces that the following resolution regarding the formation of Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board members was passed at its 25th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders and a meeting of Board of Directors held on June 24, 2023. We also announce the voting results of the shareholders’ meeting, which was held in a virtual only format without a designated physical venue (hereinafter “a virtual-only meeting of shareholders”) using blockchain technology, as listed below.

1. Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members from June 24, 2023 Onwards

Title Name Position in the company
Director HIRANO Yoichiro (Pina) President and Representative Director / CEO
KITAHARA Yoshiyuki Director, Executive Vice President / CTO
GOMI Hirofumi Outside Director
Anis Uzzaman Outside Director
TOKIOKA Mariko Outside Director
MASAMUNE Elizabeth Outside Director
Audit & Supervisory Board Member TAKANO Yoshiharu Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
NAGASAKI Akira Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
NEMOTO Mio Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

2. The Results of Asteria’s Blockchain-Based Voting System

The 25th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders was held in a virtual-only format using our unique blockchain-based system, which allows shareholders to exercise their voting rights, ask questions and table motions.
Sixty-three percent of the shareholders exercised their voting rights via the blockchain voting system, higher than the percentage for mail-in ballots.

As a pioneer in the introduction of virtual-only meetings of shareholders, Asteria will continue to encourage the implementation of advanced shareholders meetings.

Image: The live stream of Asteria’s shareholders’ meeting held on June 24
The live stream of Asteria’s shareholders’ meeting held on June 24

<Reference Data: Overview of the 25th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders>

Date and Time From 10:30 a.m. to 11:41 a.m. on June 24, 2023 (Saturday)
Duration 71 minutes
The total number of questions received 17
The number of voting rights 167,950(About 60%)
The ratio by the number of voting rights exercised Voting via blockchain-based system : 63%
Mail-in ballot : 37%
The ratio by the number of voters Voting via blockchain-based system : 47%
Mail-in ballot : 53%
Archived video https://youtu.be/A4BOgk3RuKk (in Japanese only)

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TEL: +81-3-5718-1297 / E-mail: press@asteria.com


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