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Mr. Masaharu Ozawa, President and COO
Mr. Ozawa, became president of Oki Semiconductor's Sales Division in October 2003, and was previously vice president of business planning. He joined Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. in 1983 and had been working for the overseas business unit of the semiconductor division until being appointed to his current position. He started the Oki Singapore operation in 1987 and remained in that position until 1992. Mr. Ozawa joined Oki Semiconductor in the U.S as director of Memory Marketing in 1999 until he was appointed director of Sales Operations in 2000.

Mr. Keiji Hirai, Vice President, Finance
Mr. Hirai worked for Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. for 17 years before joining Oki Semiconductor. During his career with Oki, he has spent many years working on overseas assignments starting with Oki America, Inc. in Hackensak, NJ in 1984. From 1985 to 1986, he worked at Fuji Bank in New York. He also worked in London at Oki Europe, Ltd. as manager of finance from 1988 to 1989. After his overseas duties, Mr. Hirai was assigned to Oki-Japan where he was manager of finance at Oki's Software Development Center in Warabi, Japan.