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 22, 2006.
<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 22
| Chairman and CEO | |
| Ryoji Chubachi* | President and Electronics CEO |
| Katsumi Ihara* | Executive Deputy President |
Corporate Executive Officers
As of June 22
| EVP and CFO | |
| Keiji Kimura | EVP |
| Nicole Seligman | EVP and General Counsel |
| Yutaka Nakagawa | EVP |
<Corporate Executives> (** Newly Appointed)
As of June 22
Executive Deputy President
| Sony Group China Representative |
Executive Vice President (EVP)
| Mitsuru Ohki | President of B&P Business Group |
| Eiji Kishi | |
| Akira Kubota | President of Core Component Business Unit |
| Kenshi Manabe | President of Semiconductor Business Unit |
Senior Vice President (SVP)
| Akira Iga | President of Information Technologies Laboratories |
| Yoshihisa Ishida** | |
| Hiromu Inoue | |
| Hiromasa Otsuka | Deputy President of Personal Solutions Business Group and Corporate Business Strategies |
| Yoshinori Onoue | Deputy President of B&P Business Group |
| Hidenosuke Kanai | Deputy President of TV & Video Business Group |
| Masataka Kawashima | Internal Audit |
| Yasunori Kirihara | Corporate Workplace Solutions, Production Strategies, Environment and Labor Relations |
| Shigeo Kubota | President of Core Technology Development Group, Core Component Business Unit |
| Osamu Kumagai | President of Materials Laboratories |
| Makoto Kogure | Deputy President of TV & Video Business Group |
| Tetsujiro Kondo | President of A-cubed Research Center |
| Tadashi Saito | Deputy President of Semiconductor Business Unit |
| Norihisa Shirota | President of Research & Development Group, Semiconductor Business Unit |
| President of Chemical Device Business Group, Core Component Business Unit |
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| Tomoyuki Suzuki | Deputy President of Semiconductor Business Unit |
| Masaaki Tsuruta | Corporate Technology Planning |
| Mario Tokoro** | Technology Affairs |
| Kiyoshi Nishitani | Deputy President of TV & Video Business Group |
| Shinji Hanatani | Deputy President of B&P Business Group |
| Naofumi Hara | Corporate Communications, External Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility and Kansai Region |
| Kunitaka Fujita | Human Resources |
| Masao Morita | Brand and Creative Center |
| Yoshinori Yamamoto | President of Photonic Device & Module Business Group, Core Component Business Unit |
| Takao Yuhara | Investor Relations |
| Hiroshi Yoshioka | President of Audio Business Group, Senior General Manager of Connect Business Division |
<New Group Executives>
As of June 22
| Taro Okuda | Group Executive (Executive Deputy President, Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd. President, Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (effective June 29, 2006)) |
| Group Executive (President, Sony Supply Chain Solutions, Inc.) |
<Corporate Executive Officers and Group Executive Retired
>
As of June 22
| (Currently EVP, Corporate Executive, in charge of Corporate Laboratories) |
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| Takeo Eguchi | |
| Masao Tomioka | (Currently SVP, Corporate Executive, in charge of Production Strategies and Environment) |
| Yoshihide Nakamura | (Currently SVP, Corporate Executive, in charge of Intellectual Property) |
| Akiyoshi Kawashima | (Currently Group Executive, President, Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (to retire June 29,2006)) |
| Takashi Fukushima | Counselor (Currently SVP, Corporate Executive, Deputy President of Technology Development Group) |
