Masaru Ibuka (井深大 Ibuka Masaru, born April 11, 1908, Nikkō City, Japan – died December 19, 1997, Tokyo) was a Japanese electronics industrialist. He co-founded what is now Sony. He graduated in 1933 from Waseda University where he was nicknamed "Captain America." After graduating, he went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a company which processed movie film. In 1945, he left the company and founded a radio repair shop in Tokyo.