Kazuhiro Suzuki

Kazuhiro Suzuki was appointed as co-CEO of Rakuten Mobile in April 2023. As co-CEO, he is responsible for the overall management of the company, including domestic and international operations.

Suzuki joined Rakuten Group in April 2022 as a Senior Managing Executive Officer and was appointed Chairman and CEO of Rakuten Communications and President of Rakuten Energy in June 2022.

Prior to joining Rakuten, Suzuki worked at Japan-based Cisco Systems where he led the enterprise sales business for three and a half years, and as Chairman oversaw the entire business.

After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, he joined IBM Japan, where he served as head of sales and business development for telecommunications carriers, before moving to Tivoli Systems as President and Representative Director, and then to Doubleclick Japan as President and CEO.

Later, as an executive officer of Microsoft Japan, he was responsible for the server platform product division, the enterprise sales division focusing on finance, distribution and services, and manufacturing, and the sales division for global enterprises.

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