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Sir Howard Stringer
Born	February 19, 1942 (1942-02-19) (age 66) Cardiff, Wales
Occupation	Chairman and CEO, Sony Corporation

Sir Howard Stringer (born February 19, 1942) is a British-American businessman. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Sony Corporation responsible for the whole of Sony including its media and electronics subsidiaries such as the Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Financial Holdings.

[edit] Background

Stringer (pronounced with hard "g") previously was head of the Sony Corporation of the Americas and was promoted to the company's top position because the profit and revenue of the overall company declined while their competitors' increased like Samsung, Sharp and Panasonic during his predecessor. He primarily worked in the media industry and was responsible for the media segment of Sony in the United States by overlooking the release of the Spider-Man movie series among others. He also worked at CBS among others.

The company became a huge conglomerate with businesses in video, games, movies, music, electronics and finance that it had hard time making all of them work and interroperate.

[edit] Personal

He is a naturalized United States citizen and served in Vietnam in the U.S. armed forces. His younger brother, Rob Stringer, is Chairman of Sony Music Label Group.

[edit] Source

• http://www.sony.com/SCA/bios/stringer.shtml

[edit] Notes

1. ^  Stahl, Leslie. "Sir Howard Stringer: Sony's Saviour?" CBS News, 8 January 2006
2. ^  Griffiths, Katherine. "Sir Howard Stringer, US Head of Sony: Sony's Knight." The Independent, 18 September 2004

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