Fullerene Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representatives: Takumi Yura, Takuma Sakamoto; hereinafter "the Company") is pleased to announce that Yuki Mukasa (Mukasa Yuki) has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The Company's mission is to "structure top-tier professional services through the power of technology, thereby realizing corporate value enhancement where business, capital, and organization are interconnected." To this end, we support critical business decisions and execution by providing services that span strategic consulting, M&A advisory, recruitment, and AI enablement. In recent years, with the evolution of technologies such as generative AI, the landscape of high-level professional services including corporate planning, M&A, and human capital/organizational transformation has reached a major turning point. Since its inception, the Company has viewed AI not merely as a tool for operational efficiency, but as a foundation for enhancing the accuracy of judgments and execution that should be handled by human intellect, and has been working to build an AI-native business infrastructure. Background of CTO Appointment Currently, the Company is focused on reflecting the knowledge gained from high-difficulty projects by professionals and the actions of highly-rated advisors into an AI-native operational infrastructure, with the generative AI platform "FULLERENE HUB" at its core. In the M&A domain, we are achieving automation of matching and sophistication of deal management through AI-powered market/competitor analysis, long list creation, extraction of past similar deals, synergy verification, approach automation, and DD automation. Furthermore, by connecting M&A Hub (CRM/SFA), Data Foundation, and Output Factory, we aim to realize an "AI Deal Workforce" in the future, where AI agents will support deal progression, suggest next actions, and assist with document generation and updates. In the human capital domain, we are also advancing the us