Nobuyuki Idei is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Sony Corporation.

Sony is one of the world’s largest consumer electronics and media conglomerates with 2006 revenues of ¥8,295.7 billion and approximately 163,000 employees.  Mr. Idei was previously Chairman and Group CEO of Sony until he stepped down in mid-2005.  He has spent his entire career with Sony in both Europe and Japan.  Mr. Idei is also CEO of Quantum Leaps Corporation, a Tokyo-based advisory boutique that he founded in 2006.  He serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Accenture and Baidu.com Inc., and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Waseda University.