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Nobuyuki Idei (出井 伸之, Idei Nobuyuki; 22 November 1937 – 2 June 2022) was a Japanese businessman. He was chairman and group chief executive officer of Sony Corporation until 7 March 2005. He was a director of General Motors , Baidu , Yoshimoto Kogyo and Nestlé .
Idei accelerated Sony's global expansion as CEO from 1998 until 2005, when he was succeeded by Howard Stringer. Nobuyuki Idei, Former Sony CEO Who Elevated Digital and Gaming, Dies at 84 Skip to ...
In 1994, he succeeded co-founder Akio Morita as Sony chairman. The next year, he selected Nobuyuki Idei as the company's next president, a decision he later told author John Nathan appalled 99 out of 100 people at the company, and it led to a sweeping reorganisation of the company. Idei became co-CEO with Ohga in 1998, and sole CEO in 1999.
Since 22 June 2005, Stringer has served as Chairman of Sony, overseeing businesses such as Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Financial Holdings, succeeding Nobuyuki Idei. [16] On 1 April 2009, he became president of Sony Corporation and ousted Ryoji Chubachi in what was ...
He first served on the board from 1994 to 1997, when he was removed as part of the massive reduction in the size of the board initiated by Sony president Nobuyuki Idei. He did not return to the board until he succeeded Idei as president, even though he was named Executive Deputy President and Chief Operating Officer in April, 2000.
Nobuyuki Idei (did not graduate), founder and CEO of Quantum Leaps Corporation; chairman and Group CEO of Sony Corporation, 1999–2005; Rick Gilmore (PhD 1971), president and CEO of the GIC Group and Council on Foreign Relations scholar; Philipp Hildebrand (DEA 1990), vice-president of BlackRock, former president of the Swiss National Bank
The Sony CDP-101 was the world's first commercially released compact disc player. [1] The system was launched in Japan on October 1, 1982 at a list price of 168,000 yen (approx US$730). [2] The Japan-only launch was partially because Philips, Sony's partner in the development of the CD format, was unable to meet the original agreed launch date.
It is the largest annual exhibition and conference held in Hawaiʻi for the telecommunications industry in the Pacific Rim. Past keynote speakers included Nobuyuki Idei, then-chairman of Sony, Jung-Uck Seo, then-minister of science and technology for South Korea, William Kennard, then-chairman of the FCC, and Mike Roberts, then-president of ICANN.