3月28日，索尼宣布集团董事会将在2019年6月18日的股东总会上有所变动：现任会长平井一夫，将在股东总会上宣布卸任。此后平井一夫将担任索尼集团的高级顾问。平井一夫2018年4月1日，平井一夫从索尼社长兼CEO升任为索尼集团会长，原首席财务官兼副社长吉田宪一郎代替他担任索尼社长兼CEO。平井一夫和吉田宪一郎平井一夫在卸任发言中说：「去年4月把CEO职位转交给吉田先生后，这一年来，我作为会长在支持经营体制的平稳交接。我相信，我们现在已经构建了一个以吉田先生为核心、管理层和公司员工都团结一致、能让索尼这家公司再创辉煌的体制，所以我决定从这个自己度过了35年的索尼集团毕业。对于一直以来支持我的员工们，还有所有的股东们，我非常感谢。」
On the March 28, Sony announced that the group's board of directors would change at its shareholders ' meeting on June 18, 2019: The current president, Hirai, would announce his departure at the general shareholders ' meeting. Hirai will then serve as a senior adviser to the Sony group. Hirai April 1, 2018, Hirai from Sony president and CEO to Sony Group president, former chief financial officer and Vice President Kitan in place of him as Sony president and CEO. In their outgoing remarks, Hirai and Kitan Yiromin said: "After transferring the CEO position to Mr. Yoshida last April, I, as president, supported a smooth handover of the operating system over the past year. I believe that we have now built a system with Mr. Yoshida at its core, management and company employees who are united enough to make Sony a brilliant company, so I have decided to graduate from the Sony group, which I have spent 35 years with. For the staff who have been supporting me, and all the shareholders, I am very grateful. 」
