Howard Stringer
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Sir Howard Stringer is the former chairman, CEO and chairman of the board of directors of the Sony Corporation.
Career
Stringer was an executive producer of the CBS Reports, a section on CBS News, from 1976 to 1981; executive producer of the CBS Evening News from 1981 to 1984; president of CBS News from 1986 to 1988; and president of CBS from 1988 to 1995.
He joined Sony in May 1997 and was named chairman and CEO of the Sony Corporation of America in 1998, responsible for Sony's entertainment companies, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, and Sony Music Publishing.
Stringer retired from Sony in June 2013.[1]
Affiliations
- TalkTalk, board of directors
- Time Inc, board of directors
- Said Business School, Oxford University, chair of the school board
- American Film Institute, chair of the board of trustees
- Department of Opthalmology, Columbia University Medical Centre, chairman of board of advisors
- BBC's Executive Board, non-executive director[1]
Former affiliations
- Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group
Education
- B.A. and an M.A. in Modern History from Oxford University[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 BBC Howard Stringer, last updated April 2015, accessed 14 April 2015.
