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.)