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June 20, 2002 Sony Appoints Members of the Board, Statutory Auditors, Corporate Executive Officers, Corporate Research Fellows and Group Executive Officers Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation announced the appointment of members to its Board of Directors and Statutory Auditors following approval at the 85th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders that took place today, along with the company's Chairman of the Board, Representative Directors, Corporate Executive Officers, Corporate Research Fellows and Group Executive Officers appointed at a Meeting of the Board of Directors held after the above mentioned General Meeting of Shareholders. -Board of Directors- * (newly appointed) Norio Ohga Director, Chairman of the Board Nobuyuki Idei Representative Director Kunitake Ando Representative Director Teruhisa Tokunaka Representative Director Minoru Morio Director Teruo Masaki Director Howard Stringer Director (Chairman and CEO, Sony Corporation of America) Ken Kutaragi Director (President and CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.) Iwao Nakatani Director (Director of Research, UFJ Institute Ltd., President, Tama University) Göran Lindahl Director (Director, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Director, Anglo American plc) Akishige Okada* Director (Chairman of the Board, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) With the exception of Akishige Okada, 10 Members of the Board of Directors are re-appointed. -Statutory Auditors- Tadasu Kawai* formerly Corporate Senior Vice President, Global Audit In addition to the above individual, current Standing Statutory Auditors Akihisa Ohnishi, Takafumi Abe and Statutory Auditor Masasuke Ohmori continue with their present positions. -Director resigned- Peter G. Peterson Chairman of The Blackstone Group, appointed Chairman of the Advisory Board, Sony Corporation Kenichi Suematsu Advisor of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation -Statutory Auditor resigned- Takashi Hayashi Appointed Corporate Vice President, Deputy President, Home Network Company -Corporate Executive Officers- (*newly appointed) (**promoted) Nobuyuki Idei Chairman and CEO Kunitake Ando President and COO Teruhisa Tokunaka Executive Deputy President and CFO Minoru Morio Vice Chairman EMCS Shizuo Takashino** Executive Deputy President Consumer Products NC President, Broadband Solutions Network Company Teruo Masaki Corporate Senior Executive Vice President Group General Counsel, Legal Matters, Intellectual Property and Compliance Akira Kondoh Corporate Senior Executive Vice President Corporate Treasurer, Accounting, Taxation and Finance Katsuaki Tsurushima Corporate Senior Executive Vice President CTO Teruaki Aoki Corporate Executive Vice President Procurement Mario Tokoro Corporate Executive Vice President Co-CTO Toshitada Doi Corporate Executive Vice President President, Digital Creatures Laboratory Seiichi Watanabe Corporate Executive Vice President Corporate Environmental Affairs Kenichiro Yonezawa Corporate Executive Vice President Corporate Human Resources, Corporate General Affairs Mitsuru Ohki Corporate Executive Vice President Public Relations, Corporate External Relations, Brand Strategy Takeo Minomiya Corporate Executive Vice President NC President, Semiconductor Network Company Masayuki Nozoe** Corporate Executive Vice President Sector President, Network Application & Content Service Sector Global IT Solutions Takeo Eguchi Corporate Senior Vice President President, e-Print Company, Home Network Company Yoshio Nishi Corporate Senior Vice President, Corporate Research Fellow President, Materials Laboratories Yutaka Nakagawa Corporate Senior Vice President Deputy President, Core Technology and Network Company Tsutomu Yamashita Corporate Senior Vice President NC President, Home Network Company Tetsujiro Kondo Corporate Senior Vice President President, A3 Research Center Kiyoshi Nishitani Corporate Senior Vice President Deputy President, Broadband Solutions Network Company Tsutomu Niimura Corporate Senior Vice President Co-President, Semiconductor Network Company Nobuyuki Oneda Corporate Senior Vice President Sector Officer/CFO, Network Application & Content Service Sector Ryoji Chubachi** Corporate Senior Vice President NC President, Core Technology & Network Company Keiji Kimura** Corporate Senior Vice President NC President, Mobile Network Company Yoshiyuki Kamon Corporate Vice President Technical Solutions Center Takeo Kaji Corporate Vice President Customer Satisfaction Center Kozo Kaminaga Corporate Vice President Deputy President, Broadband Solutions Network Company Shigeo Kubota Corporate Vice President, Corporate Research Fellow Senior General Manager, Core Technology Development Center, Core Technology & Network Company Akira Iga Corporate Vice President , Corporate Research Fellow President, Ubiquitous Technology Laboratories Norihisa Shirota Corporate Vice President ,Corporate Research Fellow S&S Architecture Center Mitsuru Inaba Corporate Vice President Creative Center Kazuo Yamagiwa Corporate Vice President Senior General Manager, Technology Development Center, Semiconductor Network Company Hiromasa Otsuka* Corporate Vice President Sector Officer, Network Application & Content Service Sector Yoshinori Onoue* Corporate Vice President Deputy President, Home Network Company Hideki Komiyama* Corporate Vice President President, Electronic Devices Marketing Group Shoji Nemoto* Corporate Vice President President, Personal Video Company, Mobile Network Company Takashi Hayashi* Corporate Vice President Deputy President, Home Network Company Takashi Fukushima* Corporate Vice President President, Personal Audio Company, Mobile Network Company Takao Yuhara* Corporate Vice President Senior General Manager, Corporate Planning & Control, Global Hub -Corporate Executive Officers resigned- Executive Deputy President Suehiro Nakamura appointed Advisor Corporate Senior Vice President Tadasu Kawai appointed Standing Statutory Auditor Corporate Research Fellow (Corporate Vice President) Yoshifumi Mori appointed Counsellor -New Group Executive Officers- Yoshihiro Taya Director & Corporate Senior Vice President, Sony EMCS Corporation Nobuhiro Hamasaki Representative Director & President, Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation

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