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Kenichiro Yoshida, who has led Sony since 2018, will be replaced as CEO. In the company’s monetary director.
By Río Akira Davis
Tokyo reports
The executive president of Sony Corp. , Kenichiro Yoshida, who supervised the transformation of the company of a customer electronics logo to a global entertainment company, will resign after seven years in the role, the company announced on a Wednesday.
Hiroki Totoki, a senior Sony leader who has been next in line for the first job, will take over as managing director in April, the company said. Mr. Totoki is most recently Sony’s Chief Money Officer.
Under the outgoing boss, Mr. Yoshida, 65, Sony spent billions of dollars to build his vast empire of games, music and movies. These segments represented more than 3 fifths of their source of income in the last quarter, opposite to less than a third party consisting with a previous decade.
In recent years, Sony’s attempts to push more deeply into the entertainment industry have inspired a global hunt for more content that recently included an attempt to acquire Paramount, the U.S. owner of Nickelodeon, MTV, CBS and Paramount Pictures.
In 2021, Sony bought Crunchyroll for the AT&T anime transmission service for more than one billion dollars. In December, Sony said he planned to spend more than $ three hundred million to develop his participation in Kadokawa, a Japanese editor and producer of animation and video games, adding the popular action game “Elden Ring”.
River Akira Davis covers Japan, adding its economy and companies, and is in Tokyo. Learn more about the Akira Davis River
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