Kaz Hirai has been named the new president and CEO of Sony Corporation.
Hirai, 51, currently executive deputy president, representative corporate officer, vice president of consumer products and services, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment and chairman of the board of directors at SCEA, will assume the role on April 1. Incumbent Sir Howard Stringer, who recommended Hirai for the post, will become chairman of the board in June, when Yotaro Kobayashi retires.
"Kaz is a globally focused executive for whom technology and the cloud are familiar territory, content is highly valued, and digital transformation is second nature," Stringer said. "I believe his tough-mindedness and leadership skills will be of great benefit to the company and its customers in the months and years ahead.
"I look forward to helping Kaz in every way I can so that succession leads inevitably to success. It was my honour to recommend him to the board for the positions of president and CEO, because he is ready to lead, and the time to make this change is now."
Hirai paid tribute to Stringer's "strong leadership," and added: "I am grateful to Sir Howard and the board for their confidence in me, and I look forward to working with everyone at Sony more closely than ever before to build a strong future for our customers, shareholders, partners and employees."
Hirai has long been tipped as Stringer's successor, and last month Sony denied reports that it had already named Hirai as the Welsh-born Stringer's replacement. Hirai was named SCEI chairman last June, and assumed the role on September 1.
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"It’s hard to program for, and a lot of people see the negatives of it, but if you flip that around, it means the hardware has a lot more to offer," Hirai explained in 2009. "We don’t provide the ‘easy to program for’ console that [developers] want, because ‘easy to program for’ means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?"
Anyone old enough to be alive when he said that should be mature enough to get passed it.
You need to get over it dude.
double posted.