Howard Stringer
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Sir Howard Stringer (born 19 February 1942) is a British-American businessman.
He served as chairman of the board, chairman, president, and CEO of Sony Corporation.
He is also the chairman of the American Film Institute's board of trustees and now serves as a nonexecutive director of the BBC.
Early life
Stringer was born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of Marjorie Mary (née Pook), a Welsh schoolteacher, and Harry Stringer, a sergeant in the Royal Air Force.
Rob Stringer, Rob Stringer's younger brother, was president of Sony Music Label Group.
Stringer attended 11 secondary schools by the time he was 16, including Oundle School in Northamptonshire. In Modern History, he earned a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford.
Personal life
String married Jennifer A. Kinmond Patterson in July 1978. They have two children.
In 1985, he became a naturalized American citizen.
On December 31, 1999, Queen Elizabeth II honoured him.
Career
Stringer immigrated to the United States in 1965. He was recruited into the United States Army and served as a military policeman in Saigon for ten months in the Vietnam War after being stationed at CBS' flagship station WCBS-TV for six weeks. He did not serve in combat, but was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for his meritorious service.
Stringer returned to CBS, where he had worked for 30-years. He began working in a lowly fashion, including answering phones for The Ed Sullivan Show. He joined CBS Reports in 1976 as the executive producer of the documentary film The Human Story. He was executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1981 to 1984. He became president of CBS News as a whole in 1986. He served as president of CBS from 1988 to 1995, where he was in charge of all the network operations of the corporation's entertainment, sports, radio, and television stations.
Stringer left CBS in 1995 to become CEO of Tele-TV, a newly formed media and technology firm founded by US telecom Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, and Pacific Telesis, as well as the Creative Artists Agency. Tele-TV was the first attempt at a video on demand service that streamed content over the phone network. After having invested approximately $500 million, the company was unprofitable and shut down the majority of its operations in early 1997. At that time, there was stringer left.
Stringer joined Sony in May 1997 as the president of the US operations unit (Sony Corporation of America). In May 1998, he was made a Sony corporation executive officer.
Since 2005, he has been Chairman of Sony, overseeing Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Sony Financial Holdings. He became president of Sony Corporation on April 1st, 2009, and fired Ryoji Chubachi in what was seen as a precursor to broader corporate reorganisation. Stringer has served as both executive chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation of America and president of Sony Broadband Entertainment Corporation since March 2000.
Stringer was promoted to the company's top position after the corporation overall was suffering from losses and facing increasing competition from Samsung, Sharp, Apple Inc., and Panasonic. Stringer, who worked mainly in media, was responsible for Sony's media market in the United States by directing the introduction of the Spider-Man film series, among other things.
Stringer's first concern, as CEO, was to streamline Sony's electronics market, such as through its Bravia TV joint venture with Samsung. Stringer was instrumental in orchestrating Sony's investment in Spotify, which earned Sony a handsome profit of nearly $1 billion following Sony's partial departure in 2018. Despite this, Sony's share price dropped by 60% since Stringer assumed the position of chairman before his resignation as CEO was announced in 2012, owing to exchange rates and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.
Stringer will step down as president and CEO, effective 1 April, according to Sony's executive deputy president and chairman, Kazuo Hirai. Stringer renamed himself chairman of Sony and became chairman of the board of directors in June ('Chairman of Sony' and'Chairman of the Board of Directors' are separate positions at Sony). Stringer resigned as chairman of Sony's board in June 2013.
Stringer, the company's chief, owned a home in New York when his family lived in England.
Stringer expressed his dissatisfaction with his time at Sony, saying, "Running a large company is like running a cemetery: thousands of people under you, but no one is interested." It was a little like that at Sony." Stringer was unable to put a "not invented here" mentality into Sony's rapidly evolving digital age, which Stringer was unable to get off.
