New York Office(Head Quarters)
MASAAKI MAEDA
President & CEO
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 Tokyo Institute of Technology.
In addition, he earned an MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in June 2002.
HISAO INAGAWA
Senior Vice President
Hisao Inagawa is Senior Vice President at NTT DOCOMO USA, based in New York, USA. Currently, Mr. Inagawa is responsible for overseeing the Finance, Investor Relations, Public Relations, Human Resources and General Affairs activities of the DOCOMO USA organization. Mr. Inagawa joined NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s leading wireless service provider, in 1999. At the Accounts and Finance Department in the Tokyo headquarters, he held positions of increasing responsibility related to DOCOMO’s financial reporting and corporate financing.
Before joining DOCOMO, Mr. Inagawa worked for the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan and enjoyed an extensive career in international banking. Mr. Inagawa holds a Bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is also a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (registered in the State of Illinois) and a Chartered Member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan.
SHIGERU TABA
Senior Vice President, Service & Technology Division
Shigeru Taba is Senior Vice President at NTT DOCOMO USA and in charge of independent revenue business, corporate sales and business development.
Mr. Taba joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (then public corporation) in April 1984, where he worked on network and plant planning of fixed telephone network, quality assurance of procured system, and so on.
Mr. Taba moved to NTT DOCOMO in October 1999 and worked in Network Planning Department as Senior Manager of core network planning. He was seconded to Hutchison Telecom (Hong Kong) for 4 years from July 2002 as Director of Research and Development. He returned to DOCOMO in July 2006 and worked in Global Business Department as Executive Director where he managed overseas subsidiary companies and studied new overseas investment. In July 2008, he joined NTT DOCOMO USA.
Mr. Taba received a Bachelor of Engineering in March 1982 and a Master of Engineering in March 1984 both from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
