Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> March 3, 2003
RICK CLANCY is Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications
at Sony Electronics Inc. In this position, he is responsible for
communications and public relations activities for the US
electronics business, including a wide variety of corporate
issues, new product launches, marketing support, technology
developments, third-party relationships, manufacturing
activities, crisis communications and media relations. Mr. Clancy
joined Sony in April 1990 as a Director of Corporate
Communications, becoming Vice President in January 1991. He
assumed his current position in November 1997. Prior to joining
Sony, Mr. Clancy was Vice President, Corporate Communications at
the investment firm of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert in New York.
Prior to that he served in various client service and general
management positions at Creamer Dickson Basford, a public
relations firm in New York and Pittsburgh. Mr. Clancy has also
held public relations positions at the investment firm of E.F.
Hutton and the J. Walter Thomson advertising agency, where he
began his career after receiving a BA degree majoring in
Communications from Bethany College in West Virginia. Mr. Clancy
is a past Chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
Communications Committee and is an accredited member of the
Public Relations Society of America. Profile
Electronics?
Mr. Clancy: Sony Electronics essentially is the US electronics
arm of Sony Corporation, responsible for marketing, as the
