Sony Group Corporation
Officers & Directors
Kenichiro Yoshida
Responsibility as a Director: '
Date of Birth: October 20, 1959
Number of Years Served as a Director: 8 years
Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation: Outside Director, M3, Inc.
Brief Personal History:
April 1983
Joined the Corporation
July 2000
Joined Sony Communication Network Corporation (currently Sony Network Communications Inc.)
September 2000
Outside Director, So-net M3, Inc. (currently M3, Inc.) (present)
May 2001
SVP, Sony Communication Network Corporation
April 2005
President and Representative Director, Sony Communication Network Corporation
December 2013
EVP, CSO and Deputy CFO, Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation
April 2014
EVP and CFO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation
June 2014
Director, the Corporation (present)
April 2015
Executive Deputy President and CFO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation
April 2018
President and CEO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation
June 2020
Chairman, President and CEO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation (present)
Hiroki Totoki
Responsibility as a Director: '
Date of Birth: July 17, 1964
Number of Years Served as a Director: 3 years
Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation: Outside Director, Recruit Co., Ltd.
Brief Personal History:
April 1987
Joined the Corporation
February 2002
Representative Director, Sony Bank Incorporated
June 2005
Director, Corporate Executive Officer and Senior Managing Director, Sony Communication Network Corporation (currently Sony Network Communications Inc.)
April 2012
Representative Director, Corporate Executive Officer and Senior Managing Director, So-net Entertainment Corporation (currently Sony Network Communications Inc.)
April 2013
Representative Director, Corporate Executive Officer, Deputy President and CFO, So-net Entertainment Corporation
December 2013
SVP, Corporate Executive, the Corporation
November 2014
President and CEO, Sony Mobile Communications Inc. (currently Sony Corporation)
June 2015
Director, Chairman, So-net Corporation (currently Sony Network Communications Inc.)
April 2016
EVP, Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation
Officer in charge of New Business Platform Strategy, the Corporation
President and Representative Director, So-net Corporation
June 2017
CSO, the Corporation
Officer in Charge of Mid-to-Long Term Business Strategy, New Business
April 2018
Representative Corporate Executive Officer, CFO, the Corporation
June 2018
Senior EVP, the Corporation
Outside Director, Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. (present)
June 2019
Director, the Corporation (present)
June 2020
Executive Deputy President and CFO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation (present)
Shuzo Sumi
Responsibility as a Director: Chairman of the Board
Chair of the Nominating Committee
Date of Birth: July 11, 1947
Number of Years Served as a Director: 5 years
Brief Personal History and Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation:
April 1970
Joined Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
June 2000
Director and Chief Representative in London, Overseas Division, Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
June 2002
Managing Director, Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
October 2004
Managing Director, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
June 2005
Senior Managing Director, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
June 2007
President & Chief Executive Officer, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
President & Chief Executive Officer, Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
June 2013
Chairman of the Board, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Chairman of the Board, Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
June 2014
Outside Director, Toyota Industries Corporation (present)
April 2016
Senior Executive Advisor, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. (present)
June 2017
Director, the Corporation (present)
Tim Schaaff
Responsibility as a Director: Director in charge of Information Security
Date of Birth: December 5, 1959
Number of Years Served as a Director: 9 years
Brief Personal History and Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation:
December 1982
Joined New England Digital Corporation
July 1991
Joined Apple Computer, Inc.
1998
Vice President, Apple Computer, Inc.
December 2005
Senior Vice President, Sony Corporation of America
November 2006
Deputy President, Technology Development Group, the Corporation
June 2008
President, Sony Media Software and Services Inc.
December 2009
Director, President, Sony Network Entertainment International LLC
June 2013
Director, the Corporation (present)
Toshiko Oka
Responsibility as a Director: Chair of the Audit Committee
Date of Birth: March 7, 1964
Number of Years Served as a Director: 4 years
Brief Personal History and Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation:
April 1986
Joined Tohmatsu Touche Ross Consulting Limited
July 2000
Joined Asahi Arthur Anderson Limited
September 2002
Principal, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting Co., Ltd. (currently ABeam Consulting Ltd.)
April 2005
President and Representative Director, ABeam M&A Consulting Ltd. (currently PwC Advisory LLC)
April 2016
Partner, PwC Advisory LLC
June 2016
CEO, Oka & Company Ltd. (present)
June 2018
Director, the Corporation (present)
June 2019
Outside Director, Happinet Corporation (present)
June 2020
Outside Director, ENEOS Holdings, Inc. (present)
April 2021
Professor, Graduate School of Global Business, Meiji University (present)
June 2021
Outside Director, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (present)
Sakie Akiyama
Responsibility as a Director: Member of the Compensation Committee
Date of Birth: December 1, 1962
Number of Years Served as a Director: 3 years
Brief Personal History and Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation:
April 1987
Joined Arthur Andersen & Co.
April 1994
Founder and CEO, Saki Corporation
October 2018
Founder, Saki Corporation (present)
June 2019
Director, the Corporation (present)
Outside Director, Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. (present)
Outside Director, Orix Corporation (present)
June 2020
Outside Director, Mitsubishi Corporation (present)
Wendy Becker
Responsibility as a Director: Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating Committee
Date of Birth: November 2, 1965
Number of Years Served as a Director: 3 years
Brief Personal History and Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation:
September 1987
Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble Company
September 1993
Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
December 1998
Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
February 2008
Managing Director, Residential, TalkTalk, The Carphone Warehouse Ltd.
Board member, Member of Remuneration Committee, Whitbread plc
September 2009
Chief Marketing Officer, Vodafone Group plc
September 2012
Chief Operating Officer, Jack Wills Ltd.
October 2013
CEO, Jack Wills Ltd.
February 2017
Board member, Chair of Remuneration Committee, Great Portland Estates plc (present)
September 2017
Board member, Logitech International S.A. (present)
June 2019
Director, the Corporation (present)
September 2019
Chair of the Board, Chair of Nominating Committee, Logitech International S.A. (present)
June 2021
Board member, Chair of Remuneration Committee, Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc (present)
Yoshihiko Hatanaka
Responsibility as a Director: Vice Chairman of the Board
Member of the Nominating Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Date of Birth: April 20, 1957
Number of Years Served as a Director: 3 years
Brief Personal History and Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation:
April 1980
Joined Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (currently Astellas Pharma Inc.)
June 2005
Corporate Executive, Vice President, Corporate Planning, Corporate Strategy, Astellas Pharma Inc.
April 2006
Corporate Executive of Astellas Pharma Inc. and President & CEO, Astellas US LLC and President & CEO, Astellas Pharma US, Inc.
June 2008
Senior Corporate Executive of Astellas Pharma Inc. and President & CEO, Astellas US LLC and President & CEO, Astellas Pharma US, Inc.
April 2009
Senior Corporate Executive, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Astellas Pharma Inc.
June 2011
Representative Director, President & CEO, Astellas Pharma Inc.
April 2018
Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, Astellas Pharma Inc.
June 2019
Director, the Corporation (present)
Keiko Kishigami
Responsibility as a Director: Member of the Audit Committee
Date of Birth: January 28, 1957
Number of Years Served as a Director: 2 years
Brief Personal History and Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation:
October 1985
Joined Peat Marwick Minato (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
August 1989
Registered as Certified Public Accountant (present)
December 1997
Partner, Century Audit Corporation (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
May 2004
Representative Partner (position currently defined as 'Senior Partner'), Ernst & Young ShinNihon (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
September 2018
Board Member, WWF Japan (present)
June 2019
Outside Auditor, Okamura Corporation (present)
June 2020
Director, the Corporation (present)
June 2021
Outside Director, Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Company, Limited (present)
Joseph A. Kraft Jr.
Responsibility as a Director: Member of the Audit Committee
Director in charge of Information Security
Date of Birth: May 12, 1964
Number of Years Served as a Director: 2 years
Brief Personal History and Principal Business Activities Outside the Corporation:
July 1986
Joined Morgan Stanley Inc.
January 2000
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Inc.
April 2007
Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets Division, Dresdner Kleinwort Japan
March 2010
Deputy Branch Manager & Managing Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Japan
July 2015
CEO, Rorschach Advisory Inc. (present)
June 2020
Director, the Corporation (present)
Shiro Kambe
Responsibility as an Officer: Senior EVP, Officer in charge of Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Corporate Communications, Brand Strategy, Sustainability and External Relations
Date of Birth: December 18, 1961
Number of Years Served as a Corporate Executive Officer: 8 years
Principal Business Activities Outside Sony: None
Brief Personal History:
April 1984
Joined the Corporation
June 2010
SVP, Corporate Executive, the Corporation
June 2014
EVP, Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation
June 2020
Senior EVP, Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation (present)
Kazushi Ambe
Responsibility as an Officer: Senior EVP, Officer in charge of Human Resources and General Affairs
Date of Birth: April 23, 1961
Number of Years Served as a Corporate Executive Officer: 6 years
Principal Business Activities Outside Sony: None
Brief Personal History:
April 1984
Joined the Corporation
October 2001
Vice President, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
April 2006
Senior Vice President, Sony Corporation of America
November 2014
SVP, Corporate Executive, the Corporation
June 2016
EVP, Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation
June 2020
Senior EVP, Corporate Executive Officer, the Corporation (present)
Sony Group Corporation currently has 94900 employees.
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