Mr. Tomomi Tsubota
Executive Co-Ordinator, Nikkei DigitalCore Program, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.

Date of Birth: December 8, 1949
1972 Joined Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc., Economic & Business News Department, Editorial Bureau, Osaka Head Office
75 City News Department, Editorial Bureau, Osaka Head Office
79 Editorial Department, Nagoya Main Office
84 Business News Department, Editorial Bureau, Tokyo Head Office (was in charge of communication business)
89 Associate Editor for "Nikkei Computer," Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.
91 Returned to NIKKEI, Deputy Editor, Business News Department, Editorial Bureau
94 Deputy Manager, President's Office
96 Manager, Planning & Development Department, Multimedia Bureau
97 Manager, Planning Department, Electronic Media Bureau
2000-Present Executive Co-Ordinator, Nikkei DigitalCore Program
03- Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
05- Center director, Nikkei Media laboratory

Dr. Kuniko Inoguchi
Minister of State for Gender Equality and Social AffairsMember

Born: May 3, 1952

Education
1982 Ph. D. in Political Science, Yale University
1977 M. A., Yale University
B. A., Sophia University, Tokyo

Career
2002-2004 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Conference on Disarmament
1990- Professor, Faculty of Law, Sophia University
2003 President, Conference on Disarmament in Geneva
2003 Chairperson, UN First Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms and Light Weapons
2001-2002 Member, Council for Gender Equality
1996-1998 Member, Administrative Reform Council
1994-1995 Member, Defense Policy Review Council
1999- Board Member, Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
1993 Global Leader for Tomorrow, selected by the World Economic Forum
1983-1984 Visiting Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
1981-1990 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Sophia University

Dr. Thomas Malone
Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

One of the two founding co-directors of MIT's Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century," Thomas Malone is a visionary proponent of new organizational designs that take maximum advantage of information technology's expanding possibilities.
For two decades, Malone has consistently led the field in exploring how the organizations of the future will be structured. His book, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life, foresees a workplace revolution that will dramatically change organizational structures and the roles that employees will play in them, and provides the first credible model for actually designing the company of the future. Thomas Malone is Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Information Systems, MIT Sloan School of Management and founder and Director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science.
Based on twenty years of groundbreaking research, The Future of Work proposes that current notions about decentralization merely scratch the surface of what will be possible as technological and economic forces make "command and control" management less useful. In its place will be a more flexible "coordinate and cultivate" approach that will spawn new types of decentralized organizations, from internal markets to democracies to loose hierarchies. These future structures will reap the scale and knowledge efficiencies of large organizations while enabling the freedom, flexibility, and human values that drive smaller firms. Professor Malone goes beyond issues of architecture to define the skills managers will need in a workplace in which everyone shares the power to decide.
This optimistic book shows how we can help create a world that is not just richer, but better. Professor Malone has a long record of anticipating trends in the structure of work. In the mid-1980s, he predicted many of the major developments that drove change in the 90s: electronic markets, outsourcing and the use of intelligent agents for commerce. More recently, he's outlined the emergence of the "e-lance economy." Malone has co-founded three software companies and was a former research scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. An inventor with ten patents, Professor Malone has published over fifty articles, research papers and book chapters. He's edited three books, including Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century.

Dr. Masaaki Hirano

President, Japan society for Management Information (JASMIN),
Professor, Waseda University Business School

Education:

1974 B.Eng (Management and Industrial Engineering), Tokyo Institute of Technology
1975-76 Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science) sponsored by Japanese Ministry of Education
1977 M.Eng (Management and Industrial Engineering), Tokyo Institute of Technology
1982 D.Eng (Systems Sciences), Tokyo Institute of Technology
1982-83 Post-doctoral research, Graduate Dept of Systems Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1993 BSc (Economics), Hon, University of London

Career Experience:

1979 Registered Consultant for Small Businesses, Ministry of International Trade and Industry
1983 Assistant Professor, Business School and System Science Institute, Waseda University
1985-87 Swire Scholar, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, sponsored by John Swire & Sons, Ltd
1988 Lecturer, Business School and System Science Institute, Waseda University
1990 Associate Professor, Business School and System Science Institute, Waseda University
1996 Professor, Business School and System Science Institute, Waseda University
1997-98 Visiting Faculty, INSEAD
1998 Professor, Business School and Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
2000 Visiting Scholar, Euro-Asia Centre, INSEAD
2002 Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies and Business School, Waseda University
2002 Visiting Professor, HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales)

Research Interests:

" Management of art and culture" (learning from art and cultural organisations and projects, as well as applications of management tools/concepts/theories to those organisations and projects), Course Director, "Introduction to Art Management", Waseda University Business School (2003)
" Management of ventures with a social mission" (mission definition, strategy formation and measurements building for ventures with a social mission, such as museums, halls, foundations, art/cultural events, welfare institutions, hospitals, environmental activities, etc), Course Director, "Management of Ventures with a Social Mission", Waseda University Business School (2004)
" Strategic use of IT in management and its impact on society" (use and effects of EDI on management and inter-organizational relations, effects of IT on competitive structure). Secretary, EDI SIG of Japan Society for Management Information (1990-94).
" Management of transition from the brick-and-mortar to the click-and-mortar" (formulation of viable competitive strategy and implementation of ERP, groupware, e-business, etc). Chairman, Information Technology and Society SIG of Japan Society for Management Information (1994-96), Chairman, Information Systems and Dynamic Organisational Intelligence SIG of Japan Society for Management Information (2000-02),
" Use of IT in education and learning" (appropriate contents/topics/disciplines for e-learning, effective ways to disseminate contents via e-learning, right mixture of e-learning and class teaching), Advisor, LightWorks, Corp (e-Learning company)
" International management" (manufacturing/logistics operations of Japanese multinationals in Asia, international comparison of firms' performances, successful/unsuccessful entries by firms into foreign markets). Founding member of Asian Manufacturing Futures Programme at Waseda University (1995-98), Advisor to YES III programme by Belgium and Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Japan (2002)
" Comparative study of corporate governance practices", advisor to the corporate governance project, Strategic Committee, Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Fran?aise du Japon (2000-02)
" Effective organisation" (measurement of organisational effectiveness other than financial performance). Chairman, "Organizational IQ" project at Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (2000-01)

Dr. Jiro Kokuryo
Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information,
Keio University

Working Experience:
2003-Present Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University
2000 Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University
1993 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University
1992 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
1988 Research Associate, Harvard University
1982 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Education:
1992 DBA, Harvard University
1988 MBA, Harvard University
1982 BA, The University of Tokyo

Primary Publications:
'Finding Right Revenue Models for Digital Goods in Various Market Segments - An Analysis of the Japanese Digital Music Market-' (2002), co-authored with Motohiro Hattori, Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Asia Conference on Information
" Revenue Models for Information Value." in G.Pogorel ed., 2001, in Masahiro Okuno and Nobuo Ikeda ed., 2001, Johoka to Keizai System no Tenkan, Toyo Keizai. (in Japanese)
" Open Architecture Strategy", 1999, Japan Economic Journal. (in Japanese)
" Development of IT in Japan amid financial difficulties," (1999), Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Vol.8, No.1, Mar., pp 7-12
" The Role of 'Customer-to-Customer' Interaction on Computer Networks," (1998), Journal of the Japan Society for Management Information, Vol.7, No.3, Dec., pp 19-33
" The Impact of EDI-based Quick Response Systems on Logistics Systems." in G.Pogorel ed., 1994, Global Telecommunications Strategies and Technological Changes, Amsterdam:Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
" Platform Business.", 1994, Infocom Research, Inc. (in Japanese)
" Open Network Keiei.", 1995, Japan Economic Journal. (in Japanese)
" The Role of Intermediaries in Electronic Commerce," paper presented at the OECD Workshop No.2 on the Economics of Information Societies, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-15 December 1995.

Dr. Seija Kulkki
Director, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR),
Helsinki School of Economics

Dr. Seija Kulkki is the director of Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR) at Helsinki School of Economics. CKIR conducts research on renewal and growth of companies and societies based on knowledge and innovation both locally and globally. CKIR is connected to other famous knowledge-related research centers around the world. Professor Ikujiro Nonaka from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan is the Visiting Dean at CKIR, Professor Yves Doz from INSEAD in France and Dr C. Otto Scharmer from MIT in United States hold positions as Visiting Professors, and Emeritus Professor James G. March as an Advisory Board Member.

Dr. Kulkki conducts research on multi-located R&D activities of globally operating firms as a part of a larger international research project with researchers from Hitotsubashi, INSEAD and MIT. The focus of the research is the operating and management models that are necessary for managing the global and multi-located knowledge creation in multinational firms. The project brings together Finnish, European, Japanese and American companies.

Dr. Kulkki's article (2001) together with Dr. Mikko Kosonen, Senior Vice President of Nokia Group describes the path of Nokia from a locally diversified to a globally focused, high-performance telecommunications firm. The transformation of Nokia is discussed as a process of renewal where the focus has been placed on the dynamism of individual and organizational tacit knowledge. The article discusses the future-oriented nature of tacit knowledge that explains the company's ability to create new markets and to renew and grow. Article discusses also the effects of globalization on the organizing and managing of Nokia's international research and development operations.

Dr. Kulkki has also published a conceptual article on knowledge creation in global firms (Oxford University Press, 2002) that concerns the creative and integrative capability of a firm to synthesize the local knowledge of customer and market behavior from all over the world with a globally distributed technological competence. During 2004 Oxford University Press will publish a book on management and organization of knowledge-based firms. In the book Dr. Kulkki and Professor Nonaka discuss knowledge, knowledge creation and learning theories as the basis for further development of knowledge-based theory of a firm.

Dr. Kulkki defended her doctoral thesis in Helsinki School of Economics in 1996. Her dissertation concerns knowledge creation in multinational companies. The dissertation develops further the theory of organizational knowledge creation built up by professors Nonaka and Takeuchi in 1995, from the multinational company's point of view. Professor Nonaka also acted as her opponent. The dissertation discusses knowledge creation as a dynamic interaction of individuals, organizations and environment. New organizational knowledge emerges out of shared experiences, especially in demanding situations of problem solving and discontinuity.

During 1997-2000 Dr. Kulkki has been a visiting researcher in INSEAD, France; in the Institute of Innovation Research (IIR), in Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo; as well as in Scancor (Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research) in Stanford University, USA.

Mr. Iwao Matsuda
Minister of State for Information Technology

Born: May 19, 1937 in Gifu-City, Gifu Prefecture
Member of the House of Councilors
Constituency: Gifu Prefecture (Elected 2 times)
The House of Representatives (Elected 3 times)

Education:
1960 Graduated from Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo
1964 The London School of Economics and Political Science

Career:
2005
Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy
Minister of State for Food Safety Minister of State for Information Technology
2004 – 2005
Chairman of Research Committee on International Affairs
Chief Secretary of Research Commission on Foreign Affairs
Acting Chairman of Special Committee on External Economic Cooperation
2004
Reelected to the House of Councilors (2nd term)
2002 – 2004
Chief Director of Committee on Economy and Industry
Jan.2001 - Sep.2001
Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Dec.2000 - Jan.2001
Senior State Secretary for International Trade and Industry
1998
Elected to the House of Councilors from Gifu Prefecture
1997
Distinguished Visiting Professor of The George Washington University
1993
Reelected to the House of Representatives (3rd term)
1991 – 1992
Parliamentary Vice Minister of Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports
1990
Reelected to the House of Representatives (2nd term)
1986
Elected to the House of Representatives from Gifu Prefecture

Mr. Naoyuki Akikusa
Chairman, GIIC(Global Information Infrastructure Commission)Forum,
Chairman, Fujitsu Limited

Date of birth: December 12, 1938
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science & Economics, Waseda University(March, 1961)
Professional Career:
April, 1961 Joined Fujitsu Limited
June, 1977 Director, Public Service Systems Engineering Department, Systems Engineering Department, Marketing Group, Computer Systems
Dec., 1986 Deputy Group President, Systems Engineering Group
June, 1988 Member of the Board
Group Vice President, Systems Engineering Group
June, 1991 Senior Vice President, Member of the Board Group President, Systems Engineering Group
June, 1992 Executive Vice President, Member of the Board, In charge of Systems Engineering
June, 1994 Executive Vice President, Member of the Board, Group President, Kansai Regional Sales Group
June, 1995 Executive Vice President, Member of the Board, In charge of Western-Japan Sales Group, Group President, Kansai Regional Sales Group
June, 1996 Executive Vice President, Member of the Board, Group President, Software & Service Business Promotion Group
June, 1998 President
June, 2003 Chairman
Positions in Public Organizations:
May, 2004 - Co-Chairman, Committee on Trade & Investment, Japan Business Federation (JBF)
May, 2002 - Vice Chairman, Communications and Information Network Association of Japan (CIAJ)
May, 2005 - First Vice Chairman, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA)

Sir Christopher Bland
Chairman, BT Group plc

Sir Christopher joined BT as Chairman on 1 May 2001. He was Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors from April 1, 1996 until September 30, 2001. Sir Christopher became Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company on 18 May 2004 and is the Chairman and major shareholder in Leith's School of Food & Wine and Canongate Publishing. He is a Senior Adviser to Warburg Pincus.
He has extensive media experience, both of the industry and as a regulator. He was Deputy Chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1972 to 1979 and Chairman of its Complaints Review Board during the same period. In 1982 he became a non-executive director of LWT (Holdings) plc and Chairman in 1983, a post which he held until 1994.
Born in Japan on May 29, 1938, he was educated at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire and The Queen's College, Oxford where he gained a degree in modern history and is an Honorary Fellow.
Sir Christopher became Chairman of printers and publishers Sir Joseph Causton and Sons from 1977 to 1985; he was Chairman of the Century Hutchinson Group from 1984 to 1989; a director of National Provident Institution from 1978 to 1988; and a director of Storehouse plc from 1988 to 1993. He was Chairman of NFC plc from December 1994 to May 2000, and was Chairman of Life Sciences International plc from 1987 to March 1997.
He has a keen interest in health issues. He was Chairman of the Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's Hospitals Special Health Authority from 1982 to 1994 and of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust from 1994 to February 1997. He was knighted for his work in the NHS in 1993. He was Chairman of the Private Finance Panel from 1995 to 1996 and a member of the Prime Minister's Advisory Panel on the Citizen's Charter.
Sir Christopher has one son, two stepsons and two stepdaughters. He captained the Oxford University Fencing and Modern Pentathlon teams and in 1960 he was a member of the Irish Olympic Fencing Team.

Mr. Waichi Sekiguchi
Editorial Writer, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.

Waichi Sekiguchi graduated from Hitotsubashi University and joined Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. in 1982. Mr. Sekiguchi currently covers the Japanese IT industry in Tokyo. He was a Washington correspondent during the Bush and first Clinton Administrations, covering US trade and government policies.

Prior to that, he was a research fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and a chief writer for Nikkei Weekly. He became a senior staff writer of Business News Department in 1996, and an editorial writer in 2000. He has also written books on the Internet and IT industry. Titles include "Cyberspace Revolution", "The Frontier of Cyberbusiness", "Moderntimes 2001", etc.

He is a visiting professor at Hosei University and he teaches at Hitotsubashi University and Waseda University as a part-time instructor.
He is also a member of the Japanese government copyright council and the government security culture council.

Mr. Alex Vieux
CEO, Publisher, Red Herring, Inc.

Alex Serge Vieux is publisher of Red Herring and CEO of Red Herring Inc. Drawing on his extensive expertise as a high-tech journalist, entrepreneur, professor, and advisor to the French government, Mr. Vieux is responsible for steering the growth of the organization and guiding the publication's vision. He is also chairman, CEO, and founder of DASAR, an international organization producing exclusive international IT conferences.

In 1985, Mr. Vieux reported as a U.S. business correspondent for France's leading daily newspaper, Le Monde, where he covered news and issues affecting the technology sector. His contributions to the IT industry span more than 20 years and include co-founding two banking software companies, CATS and Renaissance Software, as well as DASAR, a European incubator and conference company. Repeatedly named by Time magazine as one of the top 25 people shaping a Digital Europe, Mr. Vieux has been elected to the Board of Directors of ten public companies, including Tandem Computers (until the company's merger with Compaq), Computer Associates, Commerce One, BVRP, and Check Point Software. Mr. Vieux recently joined as executive director of several international public and private companies, including Daum Communications, Kyriba, and Qualys.

Mr. Vieux has held positions at the University of Paris Dauphine and the Universite de Paris Sorbonne, lecturing on the development of the IT industry. He was a special advisor to the French Minister of Finance, Industry and Economics, from 1991 until 1993, and served as president of the French Republic's Infotech Commission between 1997 and 1999.

Mr. Vieux is a graduate of the Institute d'Etudes Politiques and the French business school HEC. He also holds a law degree from the Universite de Paris and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Mr. Blake Krikorian
CEO, Co-Founder, Sling Media, Inc.

An experienced entrepreneur, Blake Krikorian co-founded Sling Media after founding and serving as the CEO of id8 Group Holdings, a firm which both advised industry-leading companies on product strategy and invested in new product creation. id8 Group's client list has included, among others, Microsoft, AMD, ARM Ltd, AT&T, Toshiba, Hitachi, Vulcan, Inc., Samsung Electronics, and Time Warner.
Blake started his career at General Magic, which created the Magic Cap operating system for mobile intelligent communicators and Telescript, an agent-based network programming language for the emerging electronic marketplace (pre-Internet). At General Magic, Blake assisted industry-leading telecom and consumer electronics companies, including NTT, Sony, Mitsubishi Electric, Sanyo, OKI, and Matsushita/Panasonic, in creating and defining new products, and partnerships.
In 1994, Blake co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group, which was funded by Philips Electronics. As group product manager, he built and co-led the team that defined, created, delivered, and marketed the award-winning Velo 1 Windows CE Handheld PC and its associated product line.
Blake then left Philips Mobile Computing Group to serve as Senior Vice President at Metis Associates, an information technology consulting firm and incubator of core technology companies. He led the creation of Metis' first incubated company, Mainbrace Corporation, which developed and licensed software technologies and manufacture-able device platforms to system OEMs, service providers, and semiconductor vendors. Blake's served as the company's President for the first two years of its operation. Mainbrace was acquired by BSQUARE in 2000.
Blake holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA.

Mr. Rob Glaser
Chairman and CEO,
RealNetworks, Inc.

Since founding RealNetworks in 1995, Rob Glaser has played an integral role in transforming the Internet into a mass medium. Under Glaser's direction, RealNetworks introduced the groundbreaking RealAudio product, followed quickly by RealVideo, RealPlayer and RealSystem technologies, moving television and radio from broadcast to the Internet.

Since 2001, Glaser expanded RealNetworks through a quick succession of innovative, award-winning online subscription services including: Rhapsody, the #1 ranked on-demand music service; RealArcade, the #1 ranked casual gaming service; and Starz! Ticket on Real Movies. As a direct result of Glaser's leadership, RealNetworks now boasts over 1.55 Million paying subscribers.

With the growth of broadband and mobile networks, RealNetworks is expanding beyond the PC to mobile devices and home entertainment. Close relationships with Comcast, Nokia, Ericsson, and Sony are paving the way for content to flow from the Internet to many devices - reaching consumers where and when they want.

Prior to founding RealNetworks, Mr. Glaser worked for Microsoft from 1983 to 1993 in a number of executive positions, including Vice President of Multimedia and Consumer Systems.
Mr. Glaser has served on several non-profit boards and committees, including his appointment by President Clinton to the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

Mr. Glaser is a graduate of Yale University, with a BA and an MA in Economics and a BS in Computer Science.

Mr. Geoffrey S. Prentice
Vice President, Strategic Partners and Corporate Development, Skype Technologies S.A.

At Skype Geoffrey Prentice oversaw the business plan development and all aspects of fund raising activities that led to a successful round of seed financing. As vice president of strategic partners he now manages the development of major new strategic partners and markets including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Brazil.
Prior to Skype, Geoffrey was director of investments at Target Investments AB, Stockholm a publicly traded investment company focused on new media and telecommunications.
Before Target Investment, Geoffrey was in charge of North American operations for a venture backed competitive intelligence company.
He began his career at Robert Stephens, San Francisco where he became an associate and part of three-person team, which invested in a broad range of technology issues both public and private.
Geoffrey received his Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Yoichiro Yatsurugi
President and CEO, WILLCOM, Inc

Yoichiro Yatsurugi was appointed as President and CEO of WILLCOM, Inc. in January 2005, 3 months after Carlyle's investment in late 2004. WILLCOM, Inc. is providing World unique Japan-born mobile technology called "PHS" services in Japan. PHS is based on "Micro Cell" network technology in TDD scheme and has already implemented some of 4G mobile technology. WILLCOM has more than 3 million users in Japan, with subscribers increasing dramatically since they announced "Flat-rate Voice" services on March 15, 2005. Prior to WILLCOM, Mr. Yatsurugi was head of the corporate as well as consumer groups in Japan Telecom which is 3rd biggest telecom carrier in Japan., after 4 years with AT&T in Japan/Asia Pacific. While at AT&T, AT&T's business almost doubled. Prior to AT&T, Mr. Yatsurugi was with IBM for 21 years, primarily in Japan, but spend 2 years in IBM HQ in 1991 and 1992. WILLCOM has 900 employees generating approximately US$ 2 billion, one of the most productive network company in the world. Mr. Yatsurugi has BA in Applied Physics in Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Mr. Tadashi Onodera
President and Chairman, KDDI CORPORATION

Birth Date February 3, 1948
Birth Place Miyagi, Japan

Current Responsibility
President and Chairman

Experience
Jun. 2005 President and Chairman
Jun. 2001 President, Member of the Board
Apr. 2001 Corporate name is changed to KDDI CORPORATION.
Oct. 2000 DDI CORPORATION, KDD Corporation and IDO CORPORATION merge and form a new company.
Executive Vice President
Jun. 1997 Executive Vice President
Jun. 1995 Managing Director
Jun. 1989 Director
Nov. 1984 Joined DDI CORPORATION
Apr. 1970 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Education
Mar. 1970 Graduated in Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan

Dr. Akihiko Shinozaki
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University

2004-present Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University
2001-2003 Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, U.S.A.
1999-2004 Associate Professor, Kyushu University
1995-1999 Senior Economist, Deputy Director, Japan Development Bank
1993-1995 Representative, New York Office, Japan Development Bank
1988-1990 Economist, Research Bureau of Economic Planning Agency
1984 Graduate from Kyushu University and entered Japan Development Bank

Major Publications
(1) Joho Gijutsu Kakushin no Keizaikoka [Economic Impact of Information Technology Innovation], in Japanese, Nippon Hyoron-Sha, Tokyo, 2001.
(2) Joho Kakumei no Kozu [The Nature of Information Technology Revolution], in Japanese, Toyo Keizai Shinpo-Sha, Tokyo, 1999.
(3) IT Keizai Nyumon [Introductory of IT Economy], in Japanese, Nihon Keizai Shinbun-Sha, Tokyo, 2001.
(4) Nihon Keizai no Gurobaru-ka [Globalization of Japanese Economy], in Japanese, Toyo Keizai Shinpo-Sha, Tokyo, 1998 (Top of co-author)
(5) "Innovation vs. Learning by Doing: Implications of Japan's 'Lost Decade' in the Information Age," RCSS Discussion Paper Series, No. 12, October 2003, Research Center of Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University, pp.1-19.
(6) "Aggregate Productivity Growth and the Contribution of Japan's ICT Assets: Isn't it Another Puzzle?" RCSS Discussion Paper Series, No. 20, September 2004, Research Center of Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University, pp.1-23.

Awards
(1)Telecom Social Science Award for Joho Kakumei no Kozu, by The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2000)
(2)Fujita Future Management Economic Award for Joho Kakumei no Kozu, by Mainichi Newspapers and Fujita Institute of Future Management (1999)
(3)Most outstanding Book Award for Nihon Keizai no Gurobaru-ka, by The Trade Promotion Foundation (1998)

Mr. Hisayuki Ishizumi
Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd.

Hisayuki Ishizumi is Vice-President of the HP Services (HPS) for HP Japan. HPS helps organizations obtain maximum business value from their IT investments by providing hardware systems, software and services that enable them to quickly adapt to changing business conditions and strategies for managing their future growth. Ishizumi leads a team that is responsible for approximately two-thirds of HP's business in the country.
Ishizumi joined HP Japan in 1977 as a practice manager with the Financial Solutions Group. He gained extensive experience through a series of country and regional roles spanning engineering, consulting, sales and pre-sales support, as well as business management experience in the fields of network & service providers, enterprise storage & servers. He was appointed a Vice-President of HP in 1992. Prior to assuming his current role in May 2004, Ishizumi was Vice-President & General Manager of HP's enterprise storage & server business in Japan.
To achieve and maintain HP's leadership in the enterprise space, Ishizumi focuses on developing stimulating culture based on the principles of continuous improvement of people, processes and technologies.
In addition to his HP responsibilities, Ishizumi serves as the executive director of the Research Environment for Global Information Society and Director for the Technical Committee on Ad Hoc Networks in Japan.
Born in Hokkaido, Ishizumi holds a Bachelor's degree in econometrics from the Otaru University of Commerce in Japan. At leisure, he enjoys Kendo and golf, and is an avid photographer.

Mr. John Kelly
Board of Directors, Co-Chair, CATA Alliance

John Kelly is the Chairman of NexInnovations Inc. and a principal at Reid Eddison Inc., a Canadian technology mentoring company.

Throughout his 40 year career, Kelly has been an innovator and has held a number of senior executive positions in the Canadian technology sector. From 1995 to 1999, Kelly was the President and Chief Executive Officer of JetForm Corporation. JetForm is a global leader in providing E-Process software solutions subsequently acquired by Adobe. Kelly founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Why Interactive, Canada's first interactive multimedia development company. He was a founder and Chief Executive at both Computer Innovations Distribution Inc. (which later became EDS Innovations, and now NexInnovations) and Nabu Network Corporation, a pioneering cable-based software and information distributor. Kelly was also a founder of SHL Systemhouse Ltd. (since acquired by EDS), where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from its inception in 1974 until 1980.

In 1997, Kelly won two significant awards: he was recognized as High Technology Citizen of the Year for the City of Ottawa and also as Master Entrepreneur of the Year for the province of Ontario. In 1998, he also won the Ottawa Business Journal's poll for Most Respected CEO for the City of Ottawa. In 1999, he won the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) Civic Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In November 2000, Kelly received the Outstanding Volunteer Fund Raiser Award from the Ottawa Chapter of the NSFRE (National Society of Fund Raising Executives). That same year, Kelly received the Mentor of the Year Award from the Province of Newfoundland. In May 2001, Kelly was chosen Ottawa’s Business Man of the Year for 2001 by the Consumers’ Choice Award and Market Facts Canada. In November 2004, Kelly was inducted into the CIPA (Canadian Information Productivity Awards) Hall of Fame. In May 2005, Kelly received the United Way Volunteer of the Year Award. In June 2005, Kelly received The Brother Arthur A. Loftus Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business from Iona College.

Kelly holds an honors law degree (LL.B) from the University of Ottawa and an honors B.B.A. degree (Finance) from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. He won the Gold Medal Award in Finance and the Wall Street Journal Award in Commerce from Iona College. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa (1998). Kelly was Chair of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) from 1998-2000 and is currently Co-Chair. He is past Chair of Innovators Alliance, an advisory council to the Government of Ontario with members representing Ontario’s fastest growing companies. He is Co-Chairing Ottawa’s Bid Committee to be the Canadian host city for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

He also serves on the Boards of a number of private, public and not for profit organizations including AutoSkill International Inc. (Ottawa), Axis Capital Corporation (Ottawa), Impatica Inc. (Ottawa), The Queensway-Carleton Hospital Foundation (past Chair of Hospital’s Capital Campaign, Ottawa), The Ottawa Senators Foundation, Chair of Leadership Giving for the United Way/Centraide Ottawa Campaign for 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005, was Chair of the Year 2000 United Way/Centraide Campaign for Ottawa-Carleton, CATA Alliance (Co-Chairman, Ottawa), The University of Ottawa (past Chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Board of the School of Management), Advisory Council of Leadership Ottawa, Ashbury College (2005-2006 Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, Chair of the Advancement Committee, Co-Chair of the Building Futures Campaign, Ottawa), SkillCore Inc. (Chair, Ottawa), BalloonView Inc. (Chairman, Ottawa), Baker Group International Inc. (Ottawa), Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc. (Board of Directors, Governance Committee, Chair of the Telecom Committee and Compensation Committee), ACE/Security Laminates Corp. (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Compensation Committee, Ottawa), Thermal Energy International Inc. (Ottawa), AssetMetrix Inc. (Advisor to the Board of Directors and the Corporation, Ottawa). He was Co-Chair of La Cité collégiale’s 2001-2002 Fund-Raising Campaign and was Honorary Chair of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life 2001. Kelly was Chair of the Infrastructure Working Group of Industry Canada’s National Broadband Task Force in 2001. He also serves on the Boards of Burntsand Inc. (TSE listed, Toronto), INNOVA Multimedia Ltd. (St. John’s), Global Wireless Vision Congress in Sept. 2001 (Chair, St. John’s), Advisory Board of Memorial University’s Chair in Youth-Focused Technological Entrepreneurship (St. John’s), Advisory Board of the Literacy Foundation (St. John’s).

Kelly is married and has 5 children.

Mr. Hideaki Kurashige
Director, Chief Executive Officer, JAPAN TELECOM CO., LTD.

Date of Birth: September 11, 1942
Education: Waseda University (Majored in Politics/ Economics)
Career Summary:
Feb. 2004 Director, President & CEO Japan Telecom Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2002 Chairman, IBM Business Consulting Services KK Managing Partner, IBM Business Consulting Services, Asia Pacific
Nov.1993 Chairman, Price Waterhouse Consultants
Jan.1993 Executive Vice President, IBM Japan, Ltd.
Jul.1985 Director, IBM Japan
Apr.1966 Joined IBM Japan, Ltd.

Other:
Jun.2005 Present Director, SOFTBANK Corp.
Jun.2005 Present Director, Japan Telework Association
Apr.2005 - Present Adviser, IBM Japan, Ltd
Apr.2005 - Present Adviser, IBM Business Consulting Services KK
Apr.2005 - Present Chairman, Telecommunications Carriers Association
Apr.2004 - Present Director, The Foundation for Multi Media Communications
May 2004 - Present Director, Nippon Keidanren
Aug.2002 - Present Director, International Management Association
Apr.2002 - Present Vice Chairman, The Japanese Association of Management Accounting
Sep.1999 - Present Chairman, Business Process Innovation Association
Feb.2004 - May.2005 Director, IBM Japan, Ltd.
Feb.2004 - May.2005 Director, IBM Business Consulting Services KK
Feb.2001 - Jun. 2004 Commissioner, IT Coordinators Association
May 2000 - May 2003 Director and Adviser, AEON Co., Ltd
Apr.2000 - Mar.2002 Vice Chairman, The Japan Society for Management Information
May 1995 - May 2000 Vice Chairman, Japan Industrial Management Association
Sep.1994 - Mar. 2003 Visiting Professor at Waseda University Systems Science Institute.
May 1993 - Jul. 2002 Vice Chairman, International Management Association

Mr. Toru Yamashita
Senior Executive Vice President & Representative Director, NTT DATA Corporation

After graduating from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Mr. Yamashita joined Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation in 1971. He became Manager, Planning Dept. of Development Div. NTT Data Communication Corporation (*) in 1988. Having headed therein successively Divisions of Industrial System, Business Planning, Business Development and Management Planning, he assumed the present position in 2005. (*The company changed its name to NTT Data Corporation in 1998.)