Sony Group CFO Totoki to succeed Yoshida as president - Reuters

Feb 2 (Reuters) - Sony Group Corp (6758.T) said connected Thursday main fiscal serviceman Hiroki Totoki would go president and main operating serviceman connected April 1 portion retaining his existent role.

Incumbent president Kenichiro Yoshida volition stay arsenic president and main enforcement officer.

The amusement and electronics conglomerate volition clasp a quality league connected its caller enactment astatine 4:00 p.m. (0700 GMT).

Besides his relation arsenic main fiscal serviceman successful 2018, Totoki has been main of the company's mobile telephone part and caput of the banking division.

Sony is acceptable to denote its quarterly net results astatine 3:00 p.m. connected Thursday.

The Nikkei paper earlier reported Totoki's intended appointment.

Reporting by Gokul Pisharody successful Bengaluru and Kiyoshi Takenaka successful Tokyo; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Bradley Perrett

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