Fullerene Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representatives: Takumi Yura, Takuma Sakamoto, hereinafter "the Company") is pleased to announce that Yuki Mukasa has been appointed as CTO (Chief Technology Officer). The Company's mission is to "structure the highest level of professional services through the power of technology, and realize the improvement of corporate value by linking business, capital, and organization." To this end, we support companies' critical decision-making and execution by providing strategic consulting, M&A advisory, human resources introduction, and AI enablement. In recent years, with the evolution of technology such as generative AI, the nature of high-level professional services in areas like corporate planning, M&A, and human resources/organizational transformation is undergoing a major turning point. Since its founding, 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 foundation. Background of CTO Appointment Currently, the Company is advancing initiatives to thoroughly verbalize the knowledge gained by professionals in high-difficulty projects and the actions of highly-rated advisors, and reflect it in an AI-native operational foundation, 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 resources domain, we are