Team
Akio Saito, General Partner
Akio Saito founded ANS Associates in May, 2006. Prior to ANS Associates,
Akio
spent about forty years in the telecommunications and network field. In
the recent
twenty-five years, he primarily worked for foreign country-based companies, such
as Atento-Pasona (a Telefonica CRM business unit of Japan), Bay Networks,
Stratacom, Northern Telecom, Andrew Corporation and so on, holding a variety
of
senior executive positions with full responsibilities for their Japan operations.
Before joining Andrew Corporation to establish their Japan office, he started
his business career with Hitachi, Ltd.
His experiences are ranging from genuine start-up operations, business
development, sales & marketing, consulting through heading hundreds
employees of Japan operations.
Akio Saito holds Bachelor of Science in Electric Engineering from Keio
University, Tokyo.
Blogs: ANS TechGlance (English)
ANS Zakkan(Japanese)
ANS Foreign Tech Record (Japanese)
Naoki Ido, Partner (President
of Voyager Planning, Inc.):
Mr. Ido, who has very successful track records in
the information, communications and technology (ICT) industry, founded Voyager
Planning, a technology business consulting firm in 2007.
Before founding the company, Mr. Ido was Vice-President of Extreme Networks,
a US based leading supplier of network system and President of Extreme
Networks Japan where he led the Japan team to number one position in business
growth rating among Extreme Networks’ international organizations. Mr.
Ido has been involved in systems engineering and technology since the 1970’s
and is a recipient of many awards and technical licenses. He is also
a published author on the subject matter of network and IT systems.
Shigeru Ikemoto, Partner (President of Ike Enterprises)
Mr. Ikemoto, a seasoned veteran, founded a company -a professional support
services firm- in May, 1995 to provide clients with advisory and assistance
services for their doing-business requirements in Japan. The services areas
Ike Enterprises offer will cover Japanese laws, tax processes, accounting
procedures, social insurance, and others, whatever required for a client
to launch a new venture and to set up a new office in Tokyo.
Ike Enterprises will, with its over 30 years of combined experiences, also
provide administrative support services for clients, including assistance
in accounting, payroll, office management, facility management and even
in clients' employees and families care services in Tokyo.
Prior to Ike Enterprises, Shigeru worked for Nortel Networks as Manager
of General Affairs of its Japan operations. Prior to Nortel, he worked
for a major trading firm in Japan.
Shigeru Ikemoto holds a Bachelor of Economics from Aoyama Gakuin University,
Tokyo.
