Board of Directors - Bios

Dr. Hideo Okinaka

Dr. Hideo Okinaka is Head of Technology Strategy of Strategic Mobile Business Planning Division at KDDI Corporation, and is responsible for the evaluation and introduction of new technologies for its mobile communications business unit. He spent 14 years, including 2 years at Inmarsat, London, for the research and development of digital mobile satellite communication systems. Since 1991, he has been working on the cellular systems and business development at DDI and KDD that merged to KDDI on 1st October 2000.