Shark Samejima

Shark Samejima is Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Ricoh North America. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience in management, sales, and marketing positions, Samejima is responsible for Ricoh’s corporate strategy and direction in the U.S. and Canada.

Most recently, Samejima was Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Marketing. Prior to that, he held the role of General Manager of Regional Marketing for Ricoh Company, Ltd. in Tokyo. With responsibility for developing global strategy for Japan, the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific regions, Samejima led structural reform among each region as well as growth plans for the U.S. From 2008-2013, Samejima worked in the U.S. serving as Director of Solutions Marketing where he successfully launched Ricoh’s Integrated Cloud Environment (ICE), and was granted a patent for cloud technology that enabled a variety of MFP functions via the Internet.

From 1996-2008, Samejima held positions in Japan where he led domestic marketing strategy, and introduced an integrated services portfolio that has helped Ricoh’s IT Services grow into a highly profitable business in Japan. He began his career at Ricoh in 1993 as sales representative in Japan focused on SMB accounts.

Samejima has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Meiji University in Japan.