Chikara Teshima currently serves as 代表取締役社長 at SAS since May 2023 and holds the position of 常務執行役員 at 日本マイクロソフト, responsible for the Industrial & Manufacturing Business Division and Workstyle Transformation. Since December 2017, Chikara Teshima has also been a Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of the Cloud & Solution Unit at Microsoft, alongside the role of Chief Workstyle Innovation Officer. Prior experience includes serving as Vice President of Alliance & GTM at Salesforce from April 2015 to November 2017 and as Director & General Manager of HP Server Business at 日本ヒューレット・パッカード from September 1998 to March 2015.