BIOGRAPHY
Tsuyoshi Kawanishi was born in 1929 and received a BSEE from Tokyo Institute of Technology. After attending graduate school, he joined Toshiba in 1952. He began work with semiconductors in 1957 when Toshiba established its first prototype semiconductor manufacturing operation. Starting in 1984, he managed all of Toshiba’s semiconductor operation as Group Executive for the Semiconductor Group. And finally, he became Corporate Executive Vice President of Toshiba from 1990-1994.