Tomita Tetsuro is the President and CEO of East Japan Railway. He rose through the ranks to achieve the highest executive post in the company.
Tomita was born in 1951. In 1974 he began working for what was then the Japanese National Railway (JNR) before it was divided into regional railway companies such as East Japan. He successfully rose to the position of senior staff of management planning office in 1985 at JNR. It was to be with one of the regional companies that came out of breakup where he would soar.
Tomita started working for East Japan Railway Company in April 1987. His first position was as manager of the personnel section in the general affairs division of the Tokyo operations headquarters. Tomita was appointed manager of the station operation division the following year. He moved to corporate planning in February 1989. He has since become an expert in this area, as manager of management administration. He was in this position for almost six years.
He was appointed manager of the personnel division in 1994 then in June 1998 Tomita became general manager of lifestyle business development. He had been promoted by June 2000 to director and general manager of the management administration department. Tomita was appointed executive director and deputy director general of corporate planning in June 2003. In addition to his existing role he was given the responsibility of being general manager of the IT business department the following year.
In June 2008 he was promoted to executive vice president of corporate planning. Then on April 1, 2012, he was appointed president and CEO.
As CEO one of Tomita’s initial tasks was to continue the recovery work in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan in 2011. He has been actively keeping East Japan Railway focused on 2020 Vision the firm’s plan for the future. Since becoming CEO Tomita has quickly made his mark in the company.
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