Yoichiro Yatsurugi Senior Advisor
Mr. Yatsurugi joined IBM in 1978 as a Sales Trainee and had experienced various positions such as, International Business Consultant at IBM HQ in 1991, IBM Asia Pacific President administrative assistant in 1994, General Manager of IBM Network Services in Japan. Along with the Business Unit separation, he became the first President of AT&T Global Network Services Japan LLC in 1999. His steps continued and became the first President of Willcom, PHS mobile carrier in Japan and the CEO of SAP Japan in 2007, Board Member of Alfresa Holdings from 2017. He also has the many Governmental positions such as, NISC (National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurty) Information Security Advisor, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industries) DX Member in 2018 and 2020, Regulatory Reform Promotion Council expert advisor at Cabinet Office from 2019 etc. He established Igreque.com to coordinate seminars, lectures mainly for CIO’s. He received a Bachelor of Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology.