Kenichiro Yoshida

Executive / Chief Executive Officer
Login/ Register  to follow report
Company:

About

Kenichiro Yoshida (born 20 October 1959) is a Japanese businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Sony since April 2018, succeeding Kazuo Hirai, prior to which Yoshida was the company’s chief financial officer. Yoshida joined Sony in 1987, and worked across the company’s subsidiaries in the US and Japan.

In the year 2000, he worked for Sony subsidiary So-net, which he took public in 2005. He re-joined Sony in 2013 as deputy chief financial officer and was promoted to chief financial officer the following year.In his role as CFO, he was credited with pushing the company through an extensive restructuring which turned around Sony’s losses from consumer electronics.

 

Personal Details

Title: Mr
Surname: Yoshida
DoB: 20/10/1959
Age: 66 years
M/F: Male
Nationality: Japan
Country of Birth: Japan
Language: English
Qualification: Degree in physics
Industry:

 

Qualifications & Experience

 

Industry Experience +5yrs:
Industry Qualification +5yrs?:
Finance experience +5yrs?:
Finance Qualification +5yrs:
Legal experience +5yrs?:
Delinquent director?:
Other Experiences?:
Collapsed company director?:

 

Other directorships (state)

(only entities turnover at least $5m p/a)

 

Working history

 

Committee/s

CompanyCommitteeRoleAppointment DateResignation Date
SonyBoardMember01/04/2018

 

Independence Questions

Any family members working for the company?:
Are you doing business with the company?:
Do you hold shares in the company for more than 0.10%? (directly or by representation):
Is your Director annual fee more than 5% of your total income from all sources?:
Are you more than 10 years as a director?:
Are you an executive chairperson?:
InsidEntity has assumed that responses to the Independent Questions are NO as the company has not populated the information. The result will present the Director as Independent.
Download PDF