Dentsu Group Inc. announced that appointment of Arinobu Soga, currently Executive Vice President, as Executive Vice President & Chief Governance Officer, Haruhiko Hirate, currently Executive Vice President, as Executive Vice President & Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Soichi Takahashi, currently Executive Officer, as Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Integration Officer, Miho Tanimoto, currently Japan HR Leader, Google Japan, as Chief HR Officer, Jean Lin, currently Executive Officer, as Chief Culture Officer, Jeremy Miller, currently Global Chief Communications & Marketing Officer, Dentsu International Limited, as Chief Communications Officer, Dominic Shine, currently Chief Technology Officer, Dentsu International Limited, as Chief Information Officer, Alison Zoellner, currently General Counsel, Dentsu International Limited, as General Counsel, Dentsu Group Inc., Masaya Nakamura, currently Executive Officer, Dentsu Group Inc. and CEO, Dentsu International Global Solutions, as Chief Integrated Solutions Officer, dentsu, Takeshi Sano, currently Executive Officer, Dentsu Japan Network, as CEO, Business Transformation, dentsu, Jacki Kelley, currently CEO, Dentsu International Americas, as CEO, dentsu Americas & Chief Global Client Officer, dentsu, Norihiro Kuretani, currently Executive Officer, Dentsu Group Inc. and President & CEO, Dentsu Japan Network, as CEO, dentsu Japan, Giulio Malegori, currently CEO, Dentsu International EMEA, as CEO, dentsu EMEA, Rob Gilby, currently CEO, Dentsu International APAC, as CEO, dentsu APAC, Michael Komasinski, currently Global CEO, Merkle/CXM, Dentsu International Limited, CEO, CXM, International markets, dentsu, Peter Huijboom, Global CEO, Media & Global Clients, Dentsu International Limited, as CEO, Media, International markets, dentsu, Fred Levron, currently Global Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu International Limited, as Global Chief Creative Officer, dentsu. (excluding Japan), Yoshimasa Watahiki, Executive Officer, Assistant to President, Dentsu Japan Network, Chief Operating Officer, dentsu Japan, Nnenna Ilomechina, currently Global Chief Operating Officer, Dentsu International Limited, as Chief Operating Officer, International markets, dentsu. The company also announced that the appointment of Yoshiki Ishihara as Chief of Staff, Yoshinobu Ise as Deputy Chief Strategy Officer, So Aoki as Deputy Chief Integration Officer, Tom Higgins as Deputy Chief Integration Officer, Manus Wheeler as Deputy Chief of Staff, Noritaka Omi as Deputy Chief of Staff, Yasuharu Sasaki as CEO, Creative, dentsu Japan, Nobuo Uehara as Head of Internal Audit, Jun Shibata as Deputy Chief HR Officer, Toshiyuki Hirasawa as Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Tadashi Nagae as Head of Corporate Secretary & Deputy General Counsel, Nobutaka Hayashi as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, dentsu Japan, Hiroshi Chino as Chief Financial Officer, dentsu Japan, Yuko Kitakaze as Chief Sustainability Officer, dentsu Japan and Anna Lungley as Chief Sustainability Officer, International markets, dentsu.

The changes are effective on January 1, 2023. Arinobu Soga joined Dentsu Inc. in 1988, later becoming Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of Geneon Entertainment USA, a dentsu business. He continued to build his career in Japan and abroad, and he was eventually appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Dentsu Group Inc. in 2020.

In his new role as Chief Governance Officer, he will be working closely with Group Management to ensure the highest levels of corporate governance across the policies, structures, and processes of the organization. Haruhiko Hirate has over forty years of experience in international business, having played key management roles across organizations such as Hitachi, Draeger, Roche, Merck & Co., GlaxoSmithKline, and Takeda Pharmaceutical. His experience includes executive roles at Global HQs, Region Presidents, Country GM, especially for building new strategies and to execute business transformation.

He joined Dentsu Group Inc. in January 2022 as Executive Vice President & Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. Hirate is also a Director at the Japan Center for International Exchange and holds professor roles at the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University and Keio Business School, Keio University Graduate School. As Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Dentsu Group Inc., Hirate supports the CEO in planning and executing the Group's business strategy and transformation across the enterprise, especially within Human Resource Management, Corporate Culture and Communications, to help deliver on Dentsu's ambitious goals.

Miho Tanimoto joins Dentsu Group Inc. as Chief HR Officer following her tenure as Head of HR for Google in Japan. Prior to Google, Miho held senior HR positions in General Electric in Japan and the US Global Headquarters, since 2000. She brings deep expertise in Business HR partnership and building leadership and culture.

Her experience at GE includes the global head of GE's Human Resource Leadership Program at the US HQ, developing future global HR leaders. In her new role, Miho will be based in Tokyo partnering with the CEO and Leadership team to build a one global Dentsu organization. She will lead the global HR function to design and execute dentsu group people strategies.

Dentsu has its focus to invest in human capital to shape the future, and the HR function will play a key role. Miho is an active contributor in upskilling the Japan HR community and was awarded the 2021 Best HR Leadership Award by Nihon no Jinji-bu (the largest Japan HR association). Jean Lin's career spans thirty years, having started as an account executive at Ogilvy Taiwan in 1987.

She joined Isobar in 2004 following the acquisition of wwwins Consulting Greater China, a digital consulting firm she founded, eventually becoming Global CEO of Isobar in 2014. Since 2019, Lin held several senior executive positions at dentsu international including Global CEO CX and commerce, and Global CEO Creative. She became an Executive Officer of Dentsu Group Inc. in 2021 to develop the group's business solution and accelerator for sustainability, Dentsu Good.

In her new role as Chief Culture Officer, Dentsu Group Inc., Lin will be challenged to foster a culture that empowers teaming, innovation and sustainable growth, on the important core of people, diversity, and society. Jeremy Miller was appointed Global Chief Communications and Marketing Officer for dentsu International in September 2022. Prior to joining dentsu, for over 10 years, Miller served as Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer McCann Worldgroup where he was responsible for reputation management for the legacy agency brand McCann and also for McCann Worldgroup, a multi-disciplinary organization that spans over 100 countries.