Shohei Sawa named President of AOI Asia Thailand (AOI Pro. Group) AOI Asia Thailand relocates office in Thailand and AOI Asia’s logo will be renewed

TOKYO-- AOI Pro. names Shohei Sawa the new President of AOI Asia Thailand
(Corporate Name: AOI ASIA THAI Co., Ltd.) as of July 24th 2017. A member of
the AOI Pro. Group, the Thai branch of AOI Asia, handles the advertising
content production in the Greater Asian market.

Shohei Sawa, who has lived in Southeast Asia for the past 4 years, has
extensive experience in the entertainment content industry and the wide and
often unique varieties of media and channels that are used to deliver
messages. Building upon this experience, Sawa aims to further his
understanding of the media environment and customer needs in Southeast Asia,
and to move people's heart through high quality production.

-Shohei Sawa’s Business Career
Sawa’s career experience spans a variety of aspects of the entertainment
business such as television, feature film production, TVCM, talent
management, events, digital, sports, and new business at Yoshimoto Kogyo in
Japan. He served as a board director at IMJ Entertainment, a feature film
production company. Later, he served as a board director in charge of a new
business at the digital marketing company IMJ, a parent company of IMJ
Entertainment. He then set up an overseas business department in Fields
Corporation and through Tsuburaya Productions, a subsidiary of Fields
Corporation, Sawa popularized and monetized Ultraman in Indonesia. He began
expanding the range of business activities into Thailand in 2015. Since
then, he has been based in Thailand.

In addition, AOI Asia Thailand relocated its office to a new larger space in
an area considered to be a hub in Bangkok for the creative industries to
further strengthen its local advertising content business in Thailand. A new
AOI Asia logo will be launched in August.