Kazuhiro Tsuga

Last updated
Kazuhiro Tsuga
Kazuhiro Tsuga.jpg
Tsuga in 2014
Born (1956-11-14) November 14, 1956 (age 68)
Japan
Education Osaka University (B.S. 1979)
University of California, Santa Barbara (M.S. 1986)
Occupation Business executive
Known forChairman of Panasonic

Kazuhiro Tsuga is a Japanese business executive who is serving as chairman of Panasonic.

Contents

Early life and education

Tsuga was born in Japan in 1956 and studied at Osaka University and graduated in 1979 with a B.S. in bioengineering. [1]

He immediately joined the workforce, and obtained an M.S. in computer science [2] from the University of California, Santa Barbara in, 1986 through a company sponsorship. [1]

Panasonic

Tsuga first joined Panasonic, then named Matsushita Electric, in 1979. [3] With a background in research and development, Tsuga's first executive management position came in 2008. [4]

He was elevated to President of Panasonic on June 27, 2012, taking over for Fumio Ōtsubo. [5] Otsubo, before being replaced, racked up losses of 750 billion yen. [6]

Tsuga focused on returning Panasonic to profitability, highlighted by cutting 10% of the workforce in addition to re-prioritizing Panasonic's business strategy. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 Ganguly, Dibeyendu (May 10, 2013). "How Panasonic's Kazuhiro Tsuga is taking a sword to every unprofitable business in portfolio". The Economic Times. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Prakash and Tsuga (1989). "Average-Case Analysis of the Modified Harmonic Algorithm for Bin Packing". Algorithmica. Springer. doi:10.1007/BF01553906. S2CID   1031272.
  3. ↑ "Kazuhiro Tsuga Bloomberg Businessweek Executive Profile Background". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ Kelly, Tim (November 8, 2012). "A New Style of Leadership at Panasonic". The New York Times. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Kazuhiro Tsuga Officially Appointed President of Panasonic Corporation". Panasonic. June 27, 2012. Archived from the original on January 30, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Harner, Stephen (April 13, 2013). "Japan's Samurai CEOs (1) Panasonic's Tsuga Kazuhiro". Forbes. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ Wakabayashi, Daisuke (July 9, 2012). "Panasonic President Sees Short-Term Pain in Restructuring". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.