NTT MCL President and CEO

Kenji Takahashi: Executive Biography

Kenji Takahashi is the President and Chief Executive Officer of NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories, Inc.

Prior to assuming his executive leadership role in 2010, Kenji worked at NTT Information Platform Laboratories in Japan.

Kenji Takahashi has over 20 years of experience in Research and Development on information and communication technology. Kenji was a founding member of NTT MCL, Inc. He was also a visiting scientist at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. His work on requirements engineering at Georgia Tech resulted in one of the most referred to papers in the past 25 years on IEEE Software.

He has been leading R&D projects, international standardization, and business incubation in the areas of digital identity management, ubiquitous computing, and requirements engineering. In particular, he is one of the pioneers of federated identity management technologies, which provides users with secure, easy to use, and privacy-friendly experiences in identity transactions across organizational and geographical borders. Through his work, he strives to achieve usability, security and scalability in a highly balanced manner. Kenji has published numerous papers, given talks in international journals and conferences, and has registered patents in many countries.

Kenji Takahashi holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology.