Siblings Rob Stringer Movies A Tale Of Two Irelands | Role Businessman Name Howard Stringer | |
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Born February 19, 1942 (age 82) ( 1942-02-19 ) Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom Occupation Non-executive director of BBC Spouse Jennifer Kinmond (m. 1978) Education University of Oxford, Merton College, Oxford Awards International Emmy Founders Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement In Broadcast Journalism Similar People Kazuo Hirai, Nobuyuki Idei, Rob Stringer, Norio Ohga, Akio Morita | ||
Alma mater Merton College, Oxford | ||
Sony ceo howard stringer bows out after seven years hands control to kazuo hirai
Sir Howard Stringer (born 19 February 1942) is a Welsh-American businessman. He served as chairman of the board, chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation. He is also the head of the board of trustees of the American Film Institute and now serves as a non-executive director of the BBC.
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- Sony ceo howard stringer bows out after seven years hands control to kazuo hirai
- Bitesized insight of sir howard stringer former ceo of sony and ned of the bbc talktalk time
- Personal life
- Career
- Highlights of his career at CBS
- TELE TV
- Sony
- Awards and honors
- References
Bitesized insight of sir howard stringer former ceo of sony and ned of the bbc talktalk time
Personal life
Stringer was born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of Marjorie Mary (née Pook), a Welsh schoolteacher, and Harry Stringer, a sergeant in the Royal Air Force. In July 1978, he married Jennifer A. Kinmond Patterson. They have two children.
His younger brother, Rob Stringer, was president of Sony Music Label Group.
Stringer attended Oundle School in Northamptonshire and 11 other secondary schools by the time he was 16. He received a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford in Modern History. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on December 31, 1999, and appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2013.
Career
Stringer moved to the United States in 1965. After working at CBS's flagship station WCBS-TV for six weeks, he was drafted into the United States Army, and served as a military policeman in Saigon for ten months in the Vietnam War. He did not serve in combat, but was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious achievement. Stringer returned to CBS, where he had a 30-year career. He started in a series of lowly jobs, including answering backstage phones for The Ed Sullivan Show. He then became a journalist, producer and senior executive. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1985. He served as president of CBS from 1988 to 1995, where he was responsible for all the broadcast activities of its entertainment, news, sports, radio and television stations.
Highlights of his career at CBS
TELE-TV
Sir Howard Stringer left CBS in 1995 to set up TELE-TV, a media and technology company formed by US telecoms Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, and Creative Artists Agency in February 1995. He left two years later to join Sony.
Sony
Stringer began work at Sony in May 1997 as president of its US operational unit (Sony Corporation of America). He was made a Sony group executive officer in May 1998.
Since June 2005, he had been chairman and CEO of Sony overseeing the entire businesses 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. On April 1, 2009, he became president of Sony Corporation and ousted Ryoji Chubachi in what was seen as prelude to broader corporate restructuring. Stringer also serves as executive chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation of America. He has been president of Sony Broadband Entertainment Corporation since March 2000.
Stringer was head of the Sony Corporation of America and was promoted to the company's top position as the corporation overall was having trouble with losses and was facing increasing competition from rivals like Samsung, Sharp, Apple Inc. and Panasonic. With his experience primarily in the media industry, Stringer was responsible for the media business of Sony in the U.S. by overseeing the release of the Spider-Man movie series, among others.
On February 1, 2012, Sony announced that Stringer would step down as president and CEO, effective April 1, to be replaced by Kazuo Hirai, executive deputy president and chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment. Stringer relinquished his title of chairman of Sony and became chairman of the board of Sony in June ('Chairman of Sony' and 'Chairman of the Board of Directors' are separate positions at Sony). In June 2013, Stringer retired as chairman of the board of Sony.