Tsugio Makimoto
Corporate Advisor, Semiconductor Operations
Sony Corporation

Mr. Makimoto joined Sony in 2000 as corporate senior executive vice president and moved into his current position in 2001. Prior to Sony, Mr. Makimoto was with Hitachi, where he started as a device engineer and later assumed various managerial positions, including general manager of its Semiconductor Division in 1992 and finally senior executive managing director in 1997. In the 1990s, he took leadership in developing and manufacturing high-density DRAMs and new types of RISC microprocessors and was nominated an IEEE Fellow in 1997 for his contribution for developing and manufacturing high-density MOS devices.