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May 31, 2007
Executive Appointments
Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation has decided candidates for the positions of Representative Corporate Executive Officers and Corporate Executive Officers, and has announced the appointment of Corporate Executives and Group Executives. The selections of Representative Corporate Executive Officers and Corporate Executive Officers are subject to the approval of the Board of Directors Meeting to be held on June 21, 2007.
<Corporate Executive Officers>
The candidates for Representative Corporate Executive Officers and Corporate Executive Officers are as follows.
Representative Corporate Executive Officers (* to be concurrent with Director)
As of June 21
- Howard Stringer*
- Chairman and CEO
- Ryoji Chubachi*
- President and Electronics CEO
- Katsumi Ihara*
- Executive Deputy President
Officer in charge of Consumer Products Group
Corporate Executive Officers
As of June 21
- Yutaka Nakagawa
- Executive Deputy President
Officer in charge of Semiconductor & Component Group
- Nobuyuki Oneda
- EVP and CFO
- Keiji Kimura
- EVP
Officer in charge of Technology Strategies, Intellectual Property
and Electronics Business Strategies
- Nicole Seligman
- EVP and General Counsel
<Corporate Executives> (** Newly Appointed)
As of June 21
Executive Deputy President
- Shizuo Takashino
- Sony Group China Representative
Executive Vice President (EVP)
- Akira Kubota
- President of Application & Devices Marketing Group
- Hideki Komiyama
- Electronics Marketing and Sales Strategies
Senior Vice President (SVP)
- Akira Iga
- President of Information Technologies Laboratories
- Yoshihisa Ishida
- President of VAIO Business Group
- Shigeki Ishizuka**
- President of Digital Imaging Business Group
- Hiromasa Otsuka
- Deputy President of B2B Solutions Business Group
- Yoshinori Onoue
- Deputy President of B2B Solutions Business Group
- Hidenosuke Kanai
- Deputy President of TV Business Group and Video Business Group
- Yasunori Kirihara
- Corporate Workplace Solutions, Production Strategies and Environment
- Osamu Kumagai
- President of Materials Laboratories
- Makoto Kogure
- Products Quality & Safety
- Tetsujiro Kondo
- President of A-cubed Research Center
- Tadashi Saito
- Deputy President of Semiconductor Business Group
- Keiichiro Shimada**
- President of Technology Development Group
- Norihisa Shirota
- Senior General Manager of Research & Development Division
Semiconductor Business Group
- Masayoshi Sugiyama
- President of Chemical Device Business Group
- Tomoyuki Suzuki
- Deputy President of Semiconductor Business Group
- Masaaki Tsuruta
- Deputy President of Semiconductor Business Group,
Corporate Technology Planning
- Mario Tokoro
- Technology Policy and Relations
- Kiyoshi Nishitani
- President of Video Business Group
- Shinji Hanatani
- Deputy President of B2B Solutions Business Group
- Naofumi Hara
- Corporate Communications, External Relations,
Corporate Social Responsibility and Kansai Region
- Takashi Fukuda**
- President of TV Business Group
- Kunitaka Fujita
- Human Resources
- Masao Morita
- Brand and Creative Center
- Yoshinori Yamamoto
- President of Photonic Device & Module Business Group
- Hiroshi Yoshioka
- President of Audio Business Group
<New Group Executives>
As of June 21
- Naoki Kitagawa
- Group Executive
(CEO, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
- Stanford Glasgow
- Group Executive
(President and COO, Sony Electronics Inc.)
- Kenichiro Yoshida
- Group Executive
(President, So-net Entertainment Corporation)
<Corporate Executives and Group Executive Retired >
As of June 21
- Mitsuru Ohki
- (Currently in charge of B&P, B2B Solutions Business Group)
- Eiji Kishi
- (Currently in charge of Network Entertainment and Retail Business)
- Kenshi Manabe
- (Currently Deputy President of Semiconductor Business Group)
- Masataka Kawashima
- (Currently Internal Audit)
- Shigeo Kubota
- (Currently Assistant to President Chubachi)
- Takao Yuhara
- (Currently Investor Relations)
- Ken Kutaragi
- (Currently Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer,
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.*)
*Schedule to retire as of June 19.
- Kazutomo Enomoto
- (Currently Director, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.)
- Andrew Lack
- (Currently Chairman of the Board, Sony BMG Music Entertainment Inc.)