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Management

Norihisa Suzuki
Co-founder, President & CEO

Katsushi Kurihara
General Manager of Sales
Japan & AsiaCEO

Mark Marrin
Chief Engineer

Kayako Suzuki
Director of Operations


Co-Founder

Dr. Takeo Kanade
Co-founder, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

 
Board of Directors

Norihisa Suzuki
Co-founder, President & CEO

Sharon Blasgen
Attorney

Masazumi Ishii
Managing Director of AZCA, Inc.



Dr. Norihisa Suzuki: Co-founder, President & CEO
  • Dr. Suzuki is a highly respected and experienced computer scientist, who brings 25 years of experience in research, development, sales, and marketing to Zaxel.  Dr. Suzuki was a Research Staff Member at Xerox PARC. He later became Director of IBM's famed Tokyo Research Laboratory, and General Manager of Scientific and Technical Solutions ($70 million annual revenue) at IBM. He then became Vice President of Marketing at Sony Semiconductor Company ($2 billion annual revenue). His most recent position before Zaxel was Chief Technology Officer of Sony USA. Dr. Suzuki has extensive experience in computer architecture, operating systems, digital video, digital broadcasting and broadband Internet technologies. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Sharon Blasgen: Attorney

  • Ms. Blasgen accumulated 30 years of experience in legal areas at IBM before joining Zaxel. She was the Associate General Counsel of IBM Corporation and chief counsel of the Storage Systems Division. She also held chief legal positions at the Microelectronics Division and the AS/400 Division. She has extensive experience in all aspects of legal issues in the IT industry. She is a Member of California and New York Bar Associations.
Masazumi Ishii: Managing Director of AZCA, Inc.
  • Mr. Ishii brings over 20 years of experience in international business and high technology. He is founder and Managing Director of AZCA, Inc., a professional firm specializing in international corporate development for high technology ventures. Formerly, Mr. Ishii was a senior management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc., and prior to that he was with IBM, involved in a broad range of technical and management activities in the areas of database and data communications. Mr. Ishii holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Dr. Takeo Kanade: Co-founder, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dr. Kanade is the U.A. Helen Whitaker University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and is considered the world's leader in computer vision technologies. He invented the concept of Virtualized Reality on which Zaxel's business is based. He is a previous Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kanade is also a co-founder of Quantapoint (formerly K2T). He is a recent recipient of the NEC C&C Award for lifetime contributions to the development of multimedia through the fundamental and broad advancement of robotics and computer vision. The NEC C&C Award adds to Dr. Kanade's long list of professional honors, which includes election to the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACM, Fellow of American Association of Artificial Intelligence; several awards including the Joseph Engelberger Award, Yokogawa Prize, JARA Award, Otto Franc Award, and Marr Prize Award.

Katsushi Kurihara: General Manager of Sales, Japan & Asia

Mark Marrin: Chief Engineer

Kayako Suzuki: Director of Operations


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