Management
Masaaki Maeda is currently the President & CEO of NTT DOCOMO USA, established in November 1999 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s NTT DOCOMO.
Mr. Maeda began his career in the Japanese telecommunications industry in April 1983 at NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) in the Technical Development Department.
In March 1994, he moved to NTT DOCOMO, the mobile arm of NTT which was spun off from its parent company in 1992. During his career with NTT DOCOMO in Japan, he held a variety of managerial positions in Network Planning, Personnel, General Affairs, and Mobile Multimedia Planning. He joined the New York Office of NTT DOCOMO USA in July 2002.
In 2004, Mr. Maeda launched NTT DOCOMO USA’s first service in North America, called “namikiteru®,” which is a Public Wireless LAN Access service for Japanese-speaking residents of the USA.
It was followed in October 2005 by the introduction of “namimail®”, a software application which allows users to read and write Japanese and displays simplified and traditional Chinese, Hangul (Korean) and Japanese characters on BlackBerry® handheld devices. This has contributed tremendously to the global mobility of bilingual business people.
Mr. Maeda holds both a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
In addition, he earned an MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in June 2002.
