Atsuhiko Fukuda

In his most recent position as Japan Country Manager for Open Cloud (a privately funded company serving the telecommunications industry with next generation network technology), Mr. Fukuda successfully established many new relationships with carriers, creating valuable business and revenue streams in the process. Especially notable was the success with Motorola to deploy Double Number Service as one of the new services of Softbank Mobile.

Before his role with Open Cloud, Mr. Fukuda was with Sun Microsystems for a decade during which he acted as Global ISV Manager for Oracle and NEP Sales Manager. Achievements while at Sun Microsystems included securing OEM agreement from NEC and thereby increasing sales ten-fold to $50M; achieving Reseller Agreement from Hitachi and increasing sales ten-fold to $20M; performing the role of Software Manager for SunONE (formerly iPlanet); managing a successful NEMIP project with NEC for Global carriers; and acting as NSSP Sales Manager and promoting Sun's Telecom Software vision.

Prior to Sun Microsystems, Mr. Fukuda was an account executive with Stratus Technology in Tokyo for 3 years. Achievements included doubling of sales revenue each year he was with the company.

Mr. Fukuda was the co-founder of VCC (Value Chain Consortium) along with NEC, Valista Japan, Oracle & HP; a consortium that focused on bringing telecommunications knowledge to enterprise sector.