Mr. Shigeru Tachioka, Former Vice President and Representative Director, Hitachi Consulting Co., Ltd.

Biography:
Joined Hitachi, Ltd. in 1965 and worked in the Information Technology & Telecommunications Division before joining Hitachi, Ltd. in 2003 as General Manager of the Strategy & Outsourcing Division. In 2006, he launched Hitachi Consulting, a consulting firm that provides consulting services ranging from management strategies for the Hitachi Group as a whole to specific consulting services for individual Group companies. He was responsible for the management strategy of the entire Hitachi Group as well as individual consulting services for the Group, and was instrumental in the reform of the Hitachi Group through the use of external expatriates.

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