Hideki Kurihara

Hideki Kurihara is Senior Vice President, Head of the digital department at NTT Inc. In his current role, he is responsible for NTT’s global digital business strategy and initiatives. Before that, he was a vice president at the global business office at NTT corporation, responsible for NTT’s global strategy and initiatives including the integration of NTT’s global operating companies and their global services.

Previously he was vice president, cloud services at NTT Communications, responsible for NTT communications’ global cloud services. From 1998 to 2007, he was based in Silicon Valley in the USA and was engaged in NTT Communications’ North American managed services operations. During this period, he served as General Manager of the Enterprise Hosting business unit and Vice President of Global Product Strategy.

Hideki holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Tokyo in Japan and a Master of Business Administration degree from INSEAD in France.