Ryoji Sato

Ryoji Sato is a member of the Board of Directors at Mizuho. Ryoji was previously Chief Consultant at NRI from September 2000 to February 2006.

Sato has a wealth of experience in managing IT projects for clients. Ryoji was responsible for integrating IDCs with U.S. Exodus Communications, and also published the IDC Annual Report by researching 53 IDCs around Tokyo every year. Ryoji has managed IT vendors such as IBM, Hitachi, HP and Sun Micro for clients' server integration projects.

Sato is also a professor in the quarterly workshop and conference organized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism about IT management. In addition, they have also worked as a network security consultant and audit for Japanese government institutions.

Other notable projects that Sato has managed include the integration of Stratus and Tandem for Visa International Japan, as well as the building of FEPs and mega link systems between credit card companies in Japan for TSYS Inc. Ryoji has also generated suggesting papers on the public IT network systems for NTT Group as a part of e-Gov. Japan.

Sato's most recent project was building the probability default model for construction SMEs requested by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. The model was implemented to an application. Ryoji is also responsible for building the electronic authentication system for Fuji Xerox.

Ryoji Sato has a Master's degree in Public Finance from Gifu National University in Japan. Ryoji was a Research Student in International Economy at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-Ferrand. Ryoji Sato has a Bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in Linguistic from Washburn University. Ryoji attended Hawaiian Mission Academy for High School. Ryoji Sato has a Completion Certificate in Oracle BI: Build Repositories Ed2 from Oracle University. Ryoji is certified as an XML Developer from W3Schools.com and as a Certified XBRL Specialist from XBRL International, Inc.