UBIC (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Masahiro Morimoto), which is listed on the US NASDAQ and TSE Mothers and is engaged in big data analysis business that makes full use of artificial intelligence, is an outside director of the Company in the spring of 28. We are pleased to announce that President Shin Funahashi has received the Mizuho Nakatsusho.
 
Funahashi has been working on information security since he was a member of the National Police Agency, and even after he retired, he participated in the launch of the Digital Forensics Study Group and served as a director, making him a pioneer in digital forensics in Japan. .. At UBIC, he was appointed as a director in June 2008, and since then, he has been involved in management by utilizing his many years of knowledge.
 
Biography of Director Nobu Funahashi
April 43 Joined the National Police Agency
March 11 Technical Deputy Director, National Police Agency
March 13 Special Advisor to USE Co., Ltd.
April 15 Joined NTT Data Creation Co., Ltd. (currently NTT Data i Co., Ltd.)
June 15 Director of the company
June 19 Director and Executive Officer of the company
June 20 Advisor of the company　
June 20 Director of UBIC Co., Ltd. (current position)
June 23 Director, Security Engineering Laboratory Co., Ltd. (current position)
October 25 Director, Japan Image Recognition Association (current position)
August 27 Director of Medical IT Security Forum (current position)
 
UBIC will continue to contribute to the realization of a "safe and secure society" while making use of the knowledge of information security experts.

About UBIC

UBIC Co., Ltd. is a data analysis company that supports the analysis of information such as big data using its proprietary artificial intelligence engine "KIBIT".Established in 2003 as a company that supports e-discovery (electronic discovery), which preserves evidence, investigates and analyzes electronic data necessary for international litigation, and computer forensic investigations.In-house developed data analysis platform "Lit i View"^®(Lit Eye View) "," Predictive Coding "for Asian languages^®(Predictive Coding) ”technology is used to provide legal proceedings support to companies.UBIC's unique artificial intelligence cultivated through litigation countermeasure support learns "implicit knowledge" such as expert experience and intuition, realizes prediction of future behavior from analysis of human thought, and recently medical and business intelligence We are expanding our business by utilizing artificial intelligence in areas such as marketing. Established on August 2003, 8. Listed on TSE Mothers on June 8, 2007. Listed on NASDAQ on May 6, 26.The capital is 2013 thousand yen (as of March 5, 16). The company name will be changed to "FRONTEO Inc." on July 1,705,931, 2016, provided that the amendments to the Articles of Incorporation are approved at the 3th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on June 31, 2016. We are announcing that.
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