Sony Corporation Appoints Tsuyoshi Kodera as Executive Vice President, Effective April 1, 2021
January 22, 2021 at 04:48 am EST
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Sony Corporation announced the following executive appointment in order to accelerate its digital strategy across the entire Sony Group. Tsuyoshi Kodera (Executive Vice President): New: Officer in charge of Digital Transformation Strategy, Information Systems and Information Security. Current: Officer in charge of Digital Transformation Strategy, Deputy President, Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Representative Director and Deputy President, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. Tsuyoshi Kodera will report to Hiroki Totoki, Executive Deputy President and CFO, Representative Corporate Executive Officer. The effective date is April 1, 2021.
Sony Group Corporation (formerly Sony Corporation) is a world leader in designing, manufacturing, and selling electronics and entertainment products. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- game sales (28.9%): game consoles, softwares and consumables;
- sale of multimedia products (21.1%): televisions (37.3% of sales), mobile telecommunications equipment (18.8%), still and video cameras (17.7%), audio and video equipment (16.5%) and other (9.7%);
- music production and distribution (10.3%; Sony Music Entertainment);
- sale of imaging and sensing solutions (10.4%);
- cinematography production and distribution and TV broadcasting (8.4%): operating primarily on behalf of Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures;
- other (2.4%).
The remaining sales (18.5%) are from financial services.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (32.9%), China (8.5%), Asia/Pacific (9.6%), the United States (23.9%), Europe (20.2%) and other (4.9%).