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
| Chairman and CEO | |
| Ryoji Chubachi* | President and Electronics CEO |
| Katsumi Ihara* | Executive Deputy President |
Corporate Executive Officers
As of June 21
| Yutaka Nakagawa | Executive Deputy President |
| EVP and CFO | |
| Keiji Kimura | EVP and Electronics Business Strategies |
| Nicole Seligman | EVP and General Counsel |
<Corporate Executives> (** Newly Appointed)
As of June 21
Executive Deputy President
| Sony Group China Representative |
Executive Vice President (EVP)
| Akira Kubota | President of Application & Devices Marketing Group |
Senior Vice President (SVP)
| Akira Iga | President of Information Technologies Laboratories |
| Yoshihisa Ishida | |
| Shigeki Ishizuka** | |
| Hiromasa Otsuka | Deputy President of B2B Solutions Business Group |
| Yoshinori Onoue | Deputy President of B2B Solutions Business Group |
| Hidenosuke Kanai | |
| Yasunori Kirihara | |
| 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 | Semiconductor Business Group |
| 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.) |
| Group Executive (President and COO, Sony Electronics Inc.) |
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| Kenichiro Yoshida | Group Executive (President, So-net Entertainment Corporation) |
<Corporate Executives and Group Executive Retired
>
As of June 21
| (Currently in charge of B&P, B2B Solutions Business Group) | |
| Eiji Kishi | |
| Kenshi Manabe | (Currently Deputy President of Semiconductor Business Group) |
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(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 |
