Dentsu Inc. convened a meeting of its Board of Directors on January 19, 2017 to determine the resignation of Tadashi Ishii as a Representative Director and President & CEO, and to select Shoichi Nakamoto (currently Director and Senior Executive Vice President & CFO) and Yoshio Takada (currently Director and Executive Vice President) as Representative Director and Senior Executive Vice President & CFO and Representative Director and Executive Vice President respectively, and to select Toshihiro Yamamoto (currently Senior Vice President) as President and CEO. These changes will become effective on January 23.