Reuters is reporting that the executive deputy president of Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), Kazuo Hirai, will be named as the company’s president by April of this year. Current chairman, CEO, and president Sir Howard Stringer will retain two of his titles.
Hirai is usually given the credit for Sony’s success in the gaming sector, and he is currently chief of the company’s consumer businesses.
Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.
He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.
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