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Masayoshi Son

Representative Director, Corporate Officer, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

Masayoshi Son, in a dark suit and open-necked shirt, smiling at SoftBank Group headquarters in Tokyo in May 2025
Masayoshi Son. Photo: European Union, 2025 / EC Audiovisual Service, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Masayoshi Son founded the company now known as SoftBank Group Corp. in Japan in September 1981. He is its representative director, chairman and chief executive. Born in 1957, he has led SoftBank through its evolution from a software distributor into a technology investment group.

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