Kenichiro Yoshida

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
  1. Inagaki, Kana (2 February 2018). "Sony names Kenichiro Yoshida as new chief". Financial Times.
  2. Blair, Gavin J. (21 May 2018). "New Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida Outlines Shift Towards Content". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. Inagaki, Kana; Barber, Lionel (8 October 2018). "Sony chief vows recovery is no false dawn". Financial Times.
  4. Nakamura, Yuji (2 February 2018). "Sony promotes Kenichiro Yoshida to CEO, Kazuo Hirai to take over as chairman". mint.
  5. Auto, Hermes. "Can new Sony CEO make the company hip again? | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com.


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