Kazuo Hirai
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Hirai at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona
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December 22, 1960 Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater | International Christian University |
| Occupation | President and CEO, Sony Corporation |
Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai (平井 一夫 Hirai Kazuo?, born December 22, 1960) is a Japanese businessman who is the President and CEO of Sony Corporation. He also serves as a board member of Sony Interactive Entertainment and chairman and Co-CEO of Sony Entertainment. He was noted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry. Hirai became the President and CEO of Sony on April 1, 2012.
Kazuo Hirai was born in 1960 in Tokyo, Japan, where he attended the American School in Japan. Between 1973 and 1976, Hirai attended Valley Park Middle School in Toronto. The son of a wealthy banker, Hirai often traveled with his father across the world to California, New York, and Canada and around Japan — a trait which Hirai noted to be a major factor in his later multi-continental business success.
It was his interest in games that later brought him into the entertainment business. After graduating from the International Christian University in August 1984 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree, Hirai was hired at CBS/Sony Inc. (now Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.), where he was involved in marketing international music within Japan. He eventually became head of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's international business affairs office in New York.
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