STRAIGHT TALKING TAKAAKI SUGA t.suga@jp.fujitsu.com POSITION Head of the IoT Business Division COMPANY Fujitsu EDUCATION Bachelor's degree in Physics from Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan PERSONAL PASSIONS I recently restarted playing tennis and table tennis, which I had not played since my college days. Now I enjoy these sports with my family and I even participated in a table tennis tournament in my child's school. I also like to travel around the country and have visited all of Japan's 47 prefectures. PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Since 2014, Takaaki Suga has been the Head of the IoT Business Division at Fujitsu, responsible for orchestrating the company's IoT business strategy. He coordinates with various business units and oversees the Network Business Unit that handles IoT Platform-as-a-Service 24 (PaaS) and IoT gateways. Previously, he was Senior Director of the M2M Business Division, managing end-to-end machineto-machine solutions for enterprise customers. Suga joined Fujitsu as developer of communication devices upon graduation from college in 1987.