Executive biographies

Hideki Komiyama

Biography of Hideki (Dick) Komiyama

Hideki (Dick) Komiyama became President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications on 1st November 2007 and is based at the company’s offices in London, UK. In his first few months at Sony Ericsson Dick has travelled extensively and visited the company’s main sites and offices around the world, as well as met with operator customers and members of the media. During the February 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona he accepted the ‘Best Handset’ award for the W910 WALKMAN® music phone on behalf of the company.

Dick joined Sony Ericsson from Sony Corporation, in Tokyo, Japan, where he was Executive Vice President and took the lead for Sony’s global sales and marketing strategies. Concurrently, he served as Chairman of the Board of Sony Electronics Inc. in the USA.

Prior to these positions, Dick served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Sony Electronics Inc., where he guided the company’s evolution from the digital world to broadband by encouraging the creation of devices and services that enhanced consumer lifestyles, whilst developing new business-to-business solutions. Before this role, he was president of Sony’s Electronic Devices Marketing Group in Tokyo, where he was responsible for the sales and marketing of semiconductors, devices and components globally.

Dick holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business and Finance in Philadelphia. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1988. Born in Japan, Dick earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Waseda University in Tokyo.

March 2008

WALKMAN® is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

Anders Runevad

Anders Runevad was appointed Executive Vice President and Head of Sales of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications in January 2007. He was appointed a member of the Sony Ericsson board at the same time. Prior to joining Sony Ericsson Anders held the position of President of Ericsson Brazil, based in Sao Paulo. In this role, which he held since 2004, he was responsible for Ericsson’s overall telecommunications infrastructure and service business in Brazil.

Anders Runevad first joined Ericsson in 1984 as a Design Engineer and has over the years assumed roles in the areas of R&D, product management, marketing and sales. He has worked for Ericsson in Sweden, Singapore and the US, prior to his last assignment in Brazil.

Anders is a native of Lund, Sweden, and received a Masters of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Lund in 1984. He was born in 1960 and is married with two children. He resides in London, UK.

January 2007

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications serves the global communications market with innovative and feature-rich mobile phones, accessories and PC-cards. Established as a joint venture by Sony and Ericsson in 2001, with global corporate functions located in London, the company employs over 7,500 people worldwide, including R&D sites in Europe, Japan, China and the US. Sony Ericsson celebrated the 5th anniversary of the start of the joint venture on 1st October, 2006. For more information on Sony Ericsson, please visit www.sonyericsson.com