SonyFair2008 Opening Ryoji Chubachi is a Japanese businessman, former vice chairman and president of

Sony Corporation , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...

. He joined the company in 1977, later replacing

Kunitake Andō Kunitake Andō (安藤国威, ''Andō Kunitake''; born January 1, 1942) Chairman of BJIT Limited, became president of Sony Corporation in June 2000, having been an employee of the company since 1969. On March 7, 2005 it was announced that he wou ...

to become president of the firm March 7, 2005. He was replaced as president by

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on April 1, 2009. Chūbachi retired from Sony on March 31, 2013. Currently he is the president of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), an independent administrative institution (agency) of the

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry The or METI, is a ministry of the Government of Japan. It was created by the 2001 Central Government Reform when the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) merged with agencies from other ministries related to economic activities, ...

. Chubachi had managed Sony's device and materials businesses and technology development. He was appointed President of Sony Corporation in 2005, with responsibility for the entire electronics business. Subsequently, in 2009, Chubashi was appointed to Vice Chairman. In 2013, Chubachi retired from Sony and became President of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), an independent administrative institution widely regarded as one of Japan's leading public research facilities in areas such as the environment, energy, life science, information technology and electronics.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20100626132908/http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/investors/8ido18000001wf8n-att/copy_of_nts92.pdf * http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201303/13-033E 1947 births Living people Japanese businesspeople Sony people Tohoku University alumni {{Japan-business-bio-stub