Hajime Satomi

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Hajime Satomi
Hajime Satomi at the 56th Kisaragi Sho award ceremony on February 7, 2016.
Born	(1942-01-16) January 16, 1942 (age 82)[1] Fukushima, Gunma, Empire of Japan
Occupation(s)	Chairman and representative director, Sega Sammy Holdings
Years active	1964–present
Children	Haruki Satomi

Hajime Satomi (里見 治, Satomi Hajime, born January 16, 1942) is a Japanese businessman. Satomi is known as the founder of Sammy Corporation, which merged with the Japan-based video game and arcade game producer Sega to form the holding company Sega Sammy Holdings.

Hajime Satomi withdrew from Aoyama Gakuin University in November of 1975 and founded Sammy Corporation. Sammy experienced significant growth when it began manufacturing machines for the pachislot and pachinko industry (one of Japan's most popular forms of gambling) 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.

With 22% shares bought in 2003, Sammy then bought a controlling share 1.1 billion dollars in Sega in 2004. 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.

At the Asia Business Leaders Award in 2005, The Sega Corporation named Satomi as the new chairman in a realignment of management, after the Sammy Corporation became Sega's biggest shareholder. Satomi, Sammy's president, succeeded Hisao Oguchi, who has now become vice chairman and chief creative officer of the new board. The announcement came two months after Sammy, bought 22.4 percent of Sega for 45.33 billion yen ($427 million), becoming the largest shareholder in the company.

• "Biography of Hajime Satomi" (PDF).^{[permanent dead link]} (16 KiB) — 2004-02-17
• https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/0LNE.html
• http://spong.com/article/6201?cb=419
• http://globalbusinessleaders.org/WebPage/LeaderBio.aspx?leaderCd=l002&levelcd=c02r022
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070912191028/http://www.cnbcasia.com/abla2005/finalist6.shtm
• http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1901
• http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/pr/corp/tpm.html

• [1] Satomi appointed as Chairman of Sega

• Interview by Spiegel Online - 2006-10-12