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Kazuhiro Gomi Appointed President and CEO of NTT America

NTT America (News - Alert), Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corp. and a Tier-1 IP network services provider, announced that it has appointed Kazuhiro Gomi (News - Alert) as the company's new president and chief executive officer "CEO" as well as the member of the Board of Directors.

Formerly, acting as chief operating officer "COO" and the acting head of the Enterprise Solutions Business unit, Gomi will now be succeeding Tetsuro Yamaguchi as CEO.

Yamaguchi was named president and CEO of NTT America in 2006, according to the release.

As the new CEO of the company, Gomi will be focusing on all functional areas of NTT America, including the Enterprise Solutions and the Global IP Network business units, which comprise the operations of NTT America, as well as legal, human resources, marketing communications and finance. Now, he has the responsibility for the direction and leadership of NTT America's mission, strategy, annual goals and objectives.

Gomi was appointed as COO in June of 2009. He was responsible for the company's technology procurement strategy and vendor selection in this role. During this time, he was leading NTT America and contributed in the advancement of the company's Global IP Network.

He has been with NTT for more than 20 years. Prior to COO, he also served as CTO of NTT America as well as vice president of NTT America's Global IP Network Business Unit. He was involved in product management or product development activities for the Global IP Network and several research and development projects within NTT including voice answering and video on demand systems, according to the release.

As an expertise in telecom industry, Gomi was named to the 2009 Global Telecoms Business Power100, a list of the 100 most powerful and influential people in the telecoms industry.

Gomi received a MSIE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a MSEE from Keio University, Tokyo.

He led the way in new areas of voice signal processing and voice answering systems. For this, NTT was able to hold Japanese patents and several patents pending. Gomi has also participated in Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor project as a telecommunications and IT expert.

NTT America's Enterprise Solutions Business Unit "ESBU" delivers private networking, global Ethernet, datacenter/colocation solutions, managed hosting, and cloud computing services to enterprise customers and multinational corporations.

The company's Global IP Network "GIN" Business Unit operates Global Tier-1 Internet backbones. It is also involved in the sales of direct IP transit connections to telecommunications companies, ISPs, content providers, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), enterprises and Web hosting companies.

Jayashree Adkoli is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jayashree's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri

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