NEC Corporation announced that Ikuo Matsuhashi, formerly a managing director with Goldman Sachs Japan, joined NEC as a corporate executive on July 24, 2020. Based on the knowledge gained as a top sell-side equity analyst and a deep understanding of the market and competition, Matsuhashi will play a leading role in examining and discussing the formulation of NEC's next medium-term management plan that will begin in financial year 2021, as well as scrutinizing the progress and executing necessary measures at the implementation stage of the plan.