Sony Corporation Executive Appointments

02/18/2015

Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation today announced the following executive appointments.

As of April 1, 2015

Kenichiro Yoshida

(New) --- Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Deputy President and CFO

(Current) --- Representative Corporate Executive Officer, EVP and CFO

Tomoyuki Suzuki

(New) --- Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Deputy President

(Continues as) --- Officer in charge of Device Solutions Business, RDS Platform (R&D, Common Software Design)

President, Device Solutions Business Group

(Current) --- Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Vice President

Masashi Imamura

(New) --- Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Vice President

Officer in charge of Manufacturing, Logistics, Procurement, Quality and Environmental Platform

(Current) --- Group Executive, Representative Director and President, Sony Visual Products Inc.

Shigeki Ishizuka

(New) --- Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Vice President

Officer in charge of Imaging Products & Solutions Business

President, Professional Solutions Group

(Continues as) --- President, Digital Imaging Business Group

(Current) --- Corporate Executive, Senior Vice President

Ichiro Takagi

(New) --- Group Executive, in charge of Home Entertainment & Sound Business, Consumer AV Sales Platform

Representative Director and President, Sony Visual Products Inc.

(Continues as) --- President, Video & Sound Business Group, Sony Corporation

(Current) --- Corporate Executive, Senior Vice President

Shoji Nemoto

(New) --- Corporate Executive, Executive Vice President

Sony Group China Representative, in charge of Disc Manufacturing Business

(Current) --- Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Vice President

Officer in charge of Imaging Products & Solutions Business and Disc Manufacturing Business

President, Professional Solutions Group

Toru Katsumoto

(New) --- Corporate Executive, Senior Vice President

President, Medical Business Unit

(Continues as) --- Representative Director and President, Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.

(Current) --- Corporate Executive, Senior Vice President

Deputy President, Medical Business Unit

The following corporate executives will resign from their current positions as of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders which is scheduled to be held in June 2015.

Tadashi Saito

(Current) --- Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Vice President

Officer in charge of Medical Business

President, Medical Business Unit

Kunitaka Fujita

(Current) --- Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Vice President

Officer in charge of Human Resources and General Affairs

Masaru Kato

(Current) --- Vice Chairman, Sony Group China Representative, in charge of External Relations

Access full press release:

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201502/15-018E/

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[Contact Info.]

Corporate Communications & CSR Department

Sony Corporation

Sony.Prhq@jp.sony.com

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