Hiroo
Unoura was born
on January 13, 1949. He obtained a B.A.
in Law from the University of Tokyo in 1973. Hiroo joined Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone (NTT) also in 1973. He has held
various posts in different aspects of the company including traffic operation
management, sales promotion, and human resource management including labor
relations, and corporate strategy planning and implementation.
In
2002 Hiroo became Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy
Department as well as becoming Member of the Board. In 2008 he was appointed
Senior Vice President, Head of New Business Promotion Office and President of
NTT Investment Partners.
Hiroo
was a significant player in planning and promoting NTT Group’s Medium-Term
Management Strategy, focusing on FTTH and mobile broadband service development
and NGN (Next Generation Network) vision released in 2004, accelerating
transformation from traditional network career business to global-IP-based
solution company as a “Service Creation Business Group” released in 2008, and
executing acquisitions of Dimension Data plc. in 2010 and Centerstance Inc., in
2012.
Hiroo
was promoted to President and CEO in June 2012. He has been taking the
initiative in developing a new vision, “Towards the Next Stage” released in
2012, introducing a concept of a “Value Partner” for supporting customers’
transformation through offering global cloud services.
NTT
is one of the largest companies in the world but just like any company it has
it vulnerabilities. This comes primarily from the domestic front due to the
fact that the Japanese telecommunications market is fast approaching the point
of complete saturation.
Thus NTT will be stuck in a market which will eventually have no growth. It had
to rethink its approach in order to survive and prosper.
It
is not the only Japanese company that has realized this and competitors like
Softbank have already acquired a major U.S. mobile phone carrier, eAccess and
also announced plans to take over Sprint Nextel by purchasing a 70 percent
stake.
Given
the huge resource at Hiroo’s disposal he can make many things happen and hopefully
they are the right ones.
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