Panasonic Manufacturing Malaysia Berhad announced appointment of Mr. Takashi Sugihara as Executive Managing Director. Date of change: 01 June 2023. Age: 57.

Degree: Law Hitosubashi University, Japan. Working experience and occupation: Mr. Sugihara has more than 35 years of working experience with the Panasonic Holdings Corporation Group. He joined the Corporate Planning Department of Panasonic in 1988 and has been involved with Strategic Business Planning and was took up various assignment of planning, sales and marketing in America from 1999 to 2005.

He was then assigned as General Manager to the Procurement Department, Telecom Company of Panasonic Communications (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd for the period 2005 to 2008. He returned to Japan in April 2008 and was involved with corporate planning for a number of divisions within the Panasonic Group. He held position as Director, Corporate Planning division of the Heating & Ventilation AC Company before his assignment to Panasonic Manufacturing Malaysia Berhad.