Draft:Tetsuzo Matsumoto

Graduated from Kyoto University Faculty of Law in 1962 and joined ITOCHU Corporation's Osaka Head Office.

He worked mainly at the front line of the sales division, during which time he was stationed in Korea for two years and in the U.S. (New York and Chicago) for nine years. After serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Electronics Department of ITOCHU USA, General Manager of the Telecommunications Division, General Manager of the Multimedia Division, and Acting General Manager of the Space Information Division at the Tokyo Head Office, he left ITOCHU in 1996 to set up his own company, Japan Link Corporation, a consulting business, and started a new venture. In 1998, at the request of Qualcomm Inc. of the U.S., a client of ITOCHU, he established Qualcomm Japan Inc. and became President and Representative Director.

In 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Board and Senior Vice President of Qualcomm Japan K.K., where he worked on the development of new mobile services on a global basis. In September 2006, he left Qualcomm at the request of Softbank President Masayoshi Son to become Executive Vice President (Technology and CSO) of Vodafone Japan, which had already been acquired by Softbank. In June 2011, he retired from the position of Vice President and became a Director and Special Advisor, and in June 2012, he retired from the position of Director and became a Special Advisor.

In November 2013, after his SoftBank-related work had decreased, he revived the dormant Japan Link Inc. and began consulting again, and currently has contracts with eight companies, mainly telecommunications carriers outside Japan.

From 1995 to 1998, he published three business books under the pen name "Tsuyoshi Kuji" from Diamond Inc.

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