DENTSU ANNOUNCES NEW GLOBAL MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

DIVERSE GLOBAL LEADERSHIP TEAM BLENDS JAPANESE INNOVATION WITH A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE TO DRIVE TOP LINE GROWTH FOR CLIENTS

Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324) (ISIN: JP3551520004) (President & CEO: Hiroshi Igarashi; Head Office: Tokyo) today announced a globally diverse and integrated leadership team to drive its global business forward from FY2023. The global leadership team will ensure further integration of the Groups diverse capabilities to deliver top line growth for clients, while allowing dentsu to realize sustainable enhancement of corporate value. The creation of a new global management structure follows dentsus announced intention to integrate Dentsu International and Dentsu Japan Network into a single dentsu organization around the world from January 1, 2023 and will strengthen the voice of the client in all strategy discussions. The simplified structure will allow the business to foster agile decision-making, strategic focus and clarity across the group whilst driving operational excellence across all functions.

KEY POINTS OF MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE RENEWAL

* Formation of the Group Management Team, one management team to promote global management, accelerate business transformation and further enhance management diversity to achieve business growth and the sustainable enhancement of corporate value.
* The Group Management Team is headed by President & CEO Hiroshi Igarashi and consists of 36 globally diverse Group Management members, including the 21-person Group Executive Management with executive responsibility. The team directly governs the four business regions worldwide.
* The Group Executive Management constitutes the Group Executive Management Meeting, the executive decision-making body, whose members are appointed by the President & CEO, as well as the heads of business and corporate responsibility in key areas.
* Group Management Team roles and responsibilities:

* – CEOs from across the four business regions come together to optimize the global business and align around a truly global management framework, including the selection of the first non-Japanese global CFO and the hiring of a new and internationally experienced CHRO from Google Japan. – Appointment of Chief Global Client Officer and Chief Integrated Solutions Officer to align dentsu

Contact:
MEDIA – Please contact Corporate Communications – TOKYO: Shusaku Kannan: +81 3 6217 6602,
s.kannan@dentsu.co.jp; LONDON: Matt Cross: +44 7446 798 723,
matt.cross@dentsu.com; NEW YORK: Jeremy Miller: +1 917-710-1285,
jeremy@dentsu.com INVESTORS & ANALYSTS – Please contact Investor Relations -TOKYO: Yoshihisa Okamoto: +81 3 6217 6613,
yoshihisa.okamoto@dentsu.co.jp; LONDON: Kate Stewart: +44 7900 191 093,
kate.stewart@dentsu.com

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