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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.
CSL's first product was the Aperios operating system, which later formed the base software used by some AIBO models. When Nobuyuki Idei became president of Sony in 1995, he sought to adopt a digital agenda and gave greater prominence to CSL. [11] Two AIBO prototypes and transparent ERS-7
Ohga's successor Nobuyuki Idei promoted Kutaragi to Deputy Executive President, Sony-Global chief operating officer, and Vice-Chairman in 2003. On 30 November 2006, Kutaragi was replaced as president of Sony Computer Entertainment by Kazuo Hirai, the President of SCE America.
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
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.
While they were competing for videotape formats, Nobuyuki Idei of Sony accepted his proposal. Idei thought Sony should cooperate with Panasonic on its development because the SMC-70, Sony's first personal computer, faced difficulty in the market when Sony started their computer business. Maeda also wanted to invite NEC, but NEC chose to go its ...