Tadahiro Sekimoto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tadahiro Sekimoto

Japanese businessman

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1926

Place of Birth: Kōbe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 11-Nov-2007

Profession: businessperson, engineer, computer scientist, physicist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Tadahiro Sekimoto (????, Sekimoto Tadahiro, November 14, 1926 – November 11, 2007) was a Japanese electronics engineer, a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (2004), chairman of Japan's Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies (IISE), and former chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) who served as president and later chairman of Japan's NEC Corporation (NEC).
Born in Hyogo, Japan, Sekimoto earned his BS in physics in 1948 and his Doctor of Engineering degree in 1962 at the University of Tokyo. On 11 November 2007, he died after a series of strokes.