Panasonic Corporation has announced a change of leadership for its Malaysia operation with the appointment of Takashi Sugihara has more than 35 years of working experience with the group.
He will be taking over Kenji Kamada who resigned effective 31 May in line with the group’s rotation and term policy. Sugihara 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 the position as Director, of the Corporate Planning division of the Heating & Ventilation AC Company before his assignment to Panasonic Manufacturing Malaysia Berhad.
