Kazunari Hanao

Hanao-san oversees the company's continued growth in Japan, which will include building out the HashiCorp Japan team, supporting existing and new customers in the region, and continuing to work closely with its distribution partner, Networld, and large system integrator and delivery partners.

Hanao-san is a technology industry veteran, joining HashiCorp from VMware, where he was responsible for leading the expansion of the Tanzu product line for the Japan market. Prior to that, Hanao-san spent several years at Pivotal Software, before its acquisition by VMware. At Pivotal, Hanao-san was the country manager for Japan, where he was responsible for supporting digital transformation initiatives for enterprise companies, by utilizing agile development and cloud native infrastructure. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Oracle Japan and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.