Saturday, February 10, 2007, 9:00 am – 9:45 am

Hideki "Dick" Komiyama, Executive Vice President, Corporate Executive of the Sony Corporation, as well as Chairman of Sony Electronics (SEL), USA (promoted from President of SEL in April 1, 2006), and is in charge of the company's marketing and sales strategies for its global electronics business.

From November 2005, Hideki "Dick" Komiyama held the position as EVP, Corporate Executive of Sony Corporation and in April 2006, he became senior general manager of Sony's Global Marketing Division with the responsibility for Sony's global electronics marketing and sales strategies and also became Sony Electronics' chairman of the board.

Prior to this position, he was president and chief operating officer of SEL since spring 2003. In this role he oversaw the company’s evolution from the digital marketplace into the broadband future by advocating the advancement of groundbreaking electronics devices and services to enhance consumer lifestyles and develop new business-to-business solutions.

Before that role, he was president of Sony’s Electronic Devices Marketing Group in Tokyo where he was responsible for the global sales and marketing of semiconductors, devices and components.

Komiyama joined Sony in 1967. Throughout his prestigious career, he has held a number of strategic management positions in both the United States and Tokyo.

Komiyama’s first major contribution to Sony has been recognized as his development of the powerful consumer marketing and sales operation in the United States. He was directly responsible for launching Sony’s Trinitron® color televisions and influencing the development and growth of Sony’s consumer business in the United States.

More recently, Komiyama accomplished the establishment of Sony’s PC business in the U.S. market. He was responsible for re-strategizing and re-launching the VAIO® brand at a time when Sony’s presence in the highly competitive computer industry was barely noted.

Komiyama holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business and Finance and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1988. He earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Waseda University in Tokyo. He serves as executive vice president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in N.Y.

His full biography is available here (external website).