Kenichiro Yoshida (born 20 October 1959) is a Japanese businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Sony [1] since April 2018, [2] 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. [1]
In the year 2000, he worked for Sony subsidiary So-net, which he took public in 2005. He rejoined Sony in 2013 as deputy chief financial officer and was promoted to chief financial officer the following year. [1] 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. [3] [1] [4] [5]
References
- ^ a b c d Inagaki, Kana (2 February 2018). "Sony names Kenichiro Yoshida as new chief". Financial Times.
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- ^ Inagaki, Kana; Barber, Lionel (8 October 2018). "Sony chief vows recovery is no false dawn". Financial Times.
- ^ Nakamura, Yuji (2 February 2018). "Sony promotes Kenichiro Yoshida to CEO, Kazuo Hirai to take over as chairman". mint.
- ^ Auto, Hermes. "Can new Sony CEO make the company hip again? | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com.
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