1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He has entered the company XXXX around 1993 and has been in-charge of the sales and marketing side of the semiconductor unit all throughout. His expertise lies within image sensors that was being adapted to various kind of visual application and sensing application such as digital camera, smartphone, automotive, security cameras, and so on. Right now, he has two responsibilities including managing the domestic Japanese sales of the image sensor for automotive and the other one is business planning, market estimation, and competitor analysis. On a daily basis, he sometimes visit their customers, have internal discussion with engineers, support their customers, business planning, and all together with his team members consisting of 8 members.
During his 33 years of experience overall, he also has been transferred into different sites abroad such as Korea for five years, UK for two years, 2.5 years in Germany, and was the Head of the Asset and the Head of Sales and Marketing all throughout these years.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
Strongest skill would be his experience in multicultural management since he has worked both locally in Japan and internationally in Korea, Germany, and more; he’s good with managing multicultural team members, lead them, and boost them up in doing sales.
Biggest revenue he has generated was from one of the biggest smartphone companies globally, where he had closed about 8M USD in total.
3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements?
He has been more than 30 years of experience in the Sales and Marketing side of things, has been working in the automotive industry for more than 13 years now in total; he has mainly sold Image Sensor products to all Japanese OEMs, predominantly Nissan, Honda, Toyota, and a bit of Mazda. When it comes to team management and leadership, he is currently managing a team of 8 which is by far the biggest team he has handled so far.
