TOKYO: When it comes to crunching numbers or winding down bad businesses, nobody at Sony Corp has been as sharp as Kenichiro Yoshida (pic). Now, as chief executive officer, he faces a tougher task: rekindling some lost magic.
The driving force behind Sony’s turnaround during the last five years when he was in charge of finance, the reserved 58-year-old took the company’s top job yesterday. Investors love him, but managers who worked with him said they worry he isn’t in love with the kind of gadgets that once made Sony a household name.
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