Summary
Kazusa Tomonaga is a seasoned storage and ecosystem strategist with over 25 years in storage and networking and more than a decade leading SSD product planning and business development at KIOXIA. Based in Tokyo, she blends deep engineering roots—from firmware and hardware design to interoperability testing—with senior alliance and go-to-market leadership developed during seven years directing KIOXIA’s San Jose office. She drives PCIe NVMe SSD roadmaps, ecosystem certification programs, and strategic partnerships with Intel, AMD, Microsoft and VMware to accelerate adoption in big data and generative AI markets. Known for moving quickly on urgent cross-border technical issues, she also scouts and supports startups in SDS, AI/DL and crypto through testing, co-marketing and strategic investments. Her pragmatic mix of hands-on technical fluency and global business development enables customers and partners to deploy high-performance storage solutions at scale.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electronic-Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree, Electronic-Mechanical Engineering at Nagoya University
Japanese, English, Chinese