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Management Team
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Management Team
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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