After graduating from the Department of Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University, he worked at Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems, and Google before joining KDDI in 2013. He promoted cloud business and agile planning and development in the corporate division, and after serving as Executive Officer and General Manager of Service Planning and Development, and President and CEO of KDDI Digital Divergence Holdings, he assumed his current position in 2025, where he is responsible for research and development and business development using cutting-edge technologies such as AI. Since 2009, he has also served as PM for the Information-Technology Promotion Agency (IPA)’s Unexplored IT Talent Discovery and Development Project, supporting the discovery and development of young talent.
He is from Kanie-cho, Ama-gun, Aichi Prefecture, and graduated from Tokai Junior and Senior High School. Both he and his wife grew up in Nagoya. He likes miso-stewed udon and Taiwanese ramen.