Kazuhiro Tsuga is the current President of

Panasonic formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb ...

Early life and education

Tsuga studied at

Osaka University , abbreviated as , is a public research university located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University listed as a "Top Type" university in the Top Global University Project. ...

and graduated in 1979 with a B.S. in bioengineering. He immediately joined the workforce, and obtained a M.S. in computer science from the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...

in 1986 through a company sponsorship.

Panasonic

Tsuga first joined

, then named Matsushita Electric, in 1979. With a background in research and development, Tsuga's first executive management position came in 2008. He was elevated to President of

on June 27, 2012, taking over for

Fumio Ōtsubo was the President of Panasonic. He also serves as a member of the board of Teijin Early life Fumio Ōtsubo was born in 1945 in Osaka, Japan, where he attended the Kansai University. Career Fumio Ōtsubo began his career with Panasonic ...

. Otsubo, before being replaced, racked up losses of 750 billion yen. Mr. Tsuga focused on returning Panasonic to profitability, highlighted by cutting 10% of the workforce in addition to re-prioritizing Panasonic's business strategy.

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Panasonic biography
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