Speaker Bio
Motoo Nishihara is Corporate Executive Vice President and CTO(Chief Technology Officer), Executive Officer, President of Global Innovation Business Unit.
He is responsible for the management of NEC’s corporate research laboratories of US/Germany/ Israel/India /Singapore/China/Japan, new business incubation, intellectual property rights management/license business, and Healthcare and Life Science businesses. To accelerate open innovation, he launches NECX based in Silicon Valley, USA, and BIRDINITIATIVE based in Japan with partners from different industries.
He started his career in business sector of network product/solutions development and has experienced research and development in network, security, Internet systems and AI related products/solutions. He was appointed as Senior Vice President in 2016, and Executive Vice President and CTO in 2019.
He received his master degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his Bachelor of Science in mathematical engineering and information physics from the University of Tokyo. He received the 18th Fuji Sankei Business Eye Award for Advanced Technology in 2014.