Nobuyuki Idei

Overview

Nobuyuki Idei has been a director since February 2006. Mr. Idei is the chief executive officer of Quantum Leaps Corporation, an advisory firm to Japanese and Asian businesses he founded in April 2006. Since June 2005, Mr. Idei has been chairman of the advisory board of Sony Corporation. From April 2003 until June 2005, Mr. Idei was chairman and Group CEO of Sony Corporation, from June 2000 to March 2003, he was chairman and chief executive officer, and from June 1999 to June 2000, he was president and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation. Mr. Idei has served as a director of Baidu.com, a Chinese internet company, since June 2007 and a director of FreeBit Co., Ltd, a Japanese internet company, since July 2007. Mr. Idei's current term as director expires at our annual general meeting of shareholders in 2009.