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Hiroshi Furukawa is responsible for a global innovation strategy and co-creation projects with customers. As a hard-working, knowledgeable, and target-oriented Sales Leader, he has built and maintained client loyalty through relationship-building skills, excels at devising strategies for increasing revenue, and can manage and coach team members effectively and motivate them with a clear strategy and goals. In addition, he has done a lot of Business Development with new technologies and has built innovative solutions with forward-thinking solid to drive growth in the organization.

Kazuya Hirota is the Vice President and Head of the Silicon Valley Office of NTT Data Corporation. He is responsible for setting up partner alliance strategies and tactics for expanding the digital capabilities in the global market and strengthening the partnerships with multinational companies, including IT Giants, next-gen companies, and startups in the cloud, cyber security, enterprise application, data, and intelligence areas. Mr. Hirota is a highly experienced IT service professional with a solid technical background and 25+ years of experience in System Engineering, especially in the IT infrastructure and system platforms. In addition, he is skilled in system engineering, solution sales, planning strategy, and organizational management with experience.

Hiroshi Honjo has over 10 years of experience in cybersecurity. He is responsible for protecting NTT DATA clients and NTT DATA from cyber-attacks. Previously, he was responsible for Strategy in Technology and Innovation, maximizing NTT Research and Development outcomes and the partner technology practices delivered to worldwide clients.

Kenji Motohashi is a Cloud Evangelist responsible for the widespread deployment of professional services for various clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare, and NTT Data cloud service. He also teaches at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Previously, he was at NTT DATA AgileNet (US), working on business development of public clouds and engaged in open innovation at OpenStack, Open Compute, and Open Networking Foundation.