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Kazuo Furukawa is President and Director of Hitachi, Ltd. He was appointed to this post on April 1, 2006 and elected to Director in June 2006. Prior to his appointment, he served as Executive Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi, Ltd. and President & CEO of Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Systems Group.
He began his Hitachi career in 1971. Over the last 35 years, he has held a number of other key leadership positions within Hitachi in the IT field, including Senior Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi Ltd, COO of Information & Telecommunication Systems Group, and General Manager of Network Systems & Platform Solutions Division and IP Systems Division.
In 1994, as CTO of Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. he was responsible for the successful formation of a business partnership with an American telecommunications carrier, and made a major contribution to the promotion of Hitachi overseas telecommunication systems business. He subsequently led the company communication network business using IP technology and contributed to the expansion of its solutions business in the IT field.
Mr.Furukawa is a graduate of the University of Tokyo, where he gained a B.S. degree in electronics (1969) and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering (1971).
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