Masaki Sakuyama was born in 1952 in Hyogo Prefecture. In 1977 he joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation as an engineer in the company’s Kobe Works. Masaki rose through the ranks and in 2008 was named Executive Officer and Group President of Energy & Industrial Systems Group of Mitsubishi Electric.
In 2010, he became Senior Vice President and General Manager of Corporate Strategic Planning Division. Masaki’s star was clearly on the rise when in 2012, he was appointed Executive Vice President and Group President of Semiconductor & Device Group. On April 1, 2014, he became the President and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric.
The company that Masaki leads is one of the largest publicly trade firms in the world. It generates annual sales in excess of $40 billion and has 124,305 employees. It was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation manufactures and sells electrical and electronic products and systems all over the world. The Energy and Electric Systems segment offers turbine generators, nuclear power plant and power electronic equipments among others.
The company’s Industrial Automation Systems segment offers programmable logic and computerized numerical controllers, inverters, servomotors, human-machine interface, hoists, magnetic switches among others.
Its Information and Communication Systems segment provides wireless and wired communication systems, surveillance camera, satellite communication and radar equipment, antennas, missile and fire control systems, broadcasting and information systems equipment, data transmission devices, network security systems and more.
The firm’s Electronic Devices segment offers power modules, high-frequency devices, and optical and LCD devices. Its Home Appliances segment provides LCD televisions, air conditioners, air-to-water heat pump boilers, refrigerators, electric fans, ventilators, photovoltaic power generation and hot water supply systems, LED and fluorescent among other products.
Having risen through the ranks Masaki knows a lot about the company from first hand experience. This will surely come in handy when making decisions about the company’s future and how capable the company would be in executing plans given his bottom to top experience.
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