Oct 01, 2008

Press Release

New Administration of NTT DATA MSE Inaugurated

NTT DATA Corporation
Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.

NTT DATA MSE was officially inaugurated on October 1st, 2008 in Kanagawa, Japan.

Prior to the inauguration, NTT DATA Corporation (Koto-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Toru Yamashita; "NTT DATA") and Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. (Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama City; President: Osamu Waki; "Panasonic Mobile") reached a basic agreement on the capital and business alliance in July 2008 on Panasonic Mobile & System Engineering Co., Ltd. (Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama City; President: Ryoichi Wada; "PMSE"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic Mobile with NTT DATA taking over 60 percent of the shared issued of PMSE.

NTT DATA MSE will continue its contribution to Panasonic Mobile and other business domains of the Panasonic Group by its embedded software technology and expand the customer base through its partnership with NTT DATA Group.

Outline of the New Company

(1) Company Name NTT DATA MSE Corporation
(2) Date of Establishment
October 1, 2008
(3) Headquarters 600, Saedo-cho, Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
(4) Capital 200 million yen
(5) Ownership NTT DATA (60%)
Panasonic Mobile (40%)
(6) Main Business Embedded software development
(7) Employees Approximately 1,000 (as of October 1, 2008)
(8) Directors and Corporate Auditors
President and Chief Executive Officer:
Kazuyuki Arata (Executive Vice President & Director, NTT DATA)
Senior Managing Director:
Atsunobu Kato (former Senior Managing Director, PMSE)
Managing Director:
Toshinori Nishibe (former Senior Executive Manager, Enterprise Systems Sector, NTT DATA)
Managing Director:
Tomoharu Kiyonari (former Managing Director, PMSE)
Director:
Shigeru Inaba (former Deputy Senior Executive Manager, Global & Group Governance Center, NTT DATA)
Director:
Shigemi Sato (Senior Executive Manager, Global & Group Governance Center, NTT DATA)
Director:
Ryoichi Wada (Vice President, Panasonic Mobile)
Corporate Auditor:
Yutaka Sasaki (Senior Executive Manager, Enterprise Business Planning and Administration Department, NTT DATA)
(9) Sales Approximately 13 billion yen (Forecast of sales for fiscal 2008 ending March 31, 2009)

For more information, please contact:

Takanori Iwauchi, Norihiko Sugimoto
NTT DATA Corporation
Phone: +81-3-5546-8051
Masaya Iwakiri, Junji Kanegawa
Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
Phone: +81-45-939-6455
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