Biography

Ken Ogawa Head of Software Strategy, NEC Click photo for larger image

After graduating from Kyoto University, Ken Ogawa joined NEC where he was involved in the development of the Mainframe Operating System in the National joint project involving NTT, Hitachi, Fujitsu and NEC. After that, he started the development of UNIX for the NEC HW platform and, at the same time, was assigned to NEC's standardization activities. He participated in organizations such as UNIX International, X/Open, and OSF as a representative of NEC.

To accelerate NEC Unix development he was temporally moved to the US. Subsequently, the focus of the office moved to middleware and he started two projects: internet security and distributed object technology.

Ken returned to NEC Japan in 2000, to a role in product planning, including incubating new products, and managing alliances, sales promotion and overseas business development.

In 2001, as a Chief Manager, Ken was responsible for expanding the NEC Software business to overseas markets and, from 2005, he has been head of the Software Strategy Department, reporting to the Senior Vice President.