Hajime Satomi

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Hajime Satomi

Born	January 16, 1942 (1942-01-16) (age 66) Toyko, Japan
Occupation	CEO of Sega Corp

Born in Japan in 1942, Hajime Satomi was the founder of Sammy Corporation, an entertainment equipment manufacturer, which currently owns Sega, a world-renowned producer of arcade and software games.

[edit] History

Hajime Satomi withdrew from Aoyama Gakuin University November 1975 and founded Sammy Corporation as an entertainment equipment manufacturer. Sammy experienced significant growth when it began manufacturing machines for the pachislot and pachinko industry (one of Japan's most popular forms of entertainment) and was successfully listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in March 2001. Sammy Corporation is now the leading manufacturer of pachislot and pachinko machines.

Sammy Corporation, Japan's largest slot machine maker^{[citation needed]} bought out ailing videogame maker Sega Corporation in 2004 for $394 million. Hajime Satomi heads the newly combined $4.5 billion (sales) group, now called Sega Sammy Holdings.Inc with its main businesses being those of Sammy Corporation and Sega Corporation. As a result, SEGA SAMMY GROUP has grown to become one of the top 60 enterprises in Japan based on recurring income as of fiscal year ending March 2005.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Career Highlights

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Asia Business Leaders Award 2005 The Sega Corporation, the Japanese video game maker, named a new chairman in a realignment of management, selecting an executive from the pinball machine maker Sammy Corporation, which recently became Sega's biggest shareholder. The executive, Hajime Satomi, 62, Sammy's president, succeeded Hideki Sato, who becomes vice chairman of the new board. The announcement came two months after Sammy, a leading maker of pinball machines, bought 22.4 percent of Sega for 45.33 billion yen ($427 million), becoming the largest shareholder in the company, which is based in Tokyo and makes video games, among them Sonic the Hedgehog.