Kimihiko Kitase
Head Of Enterprise Marketing, Google Cloud
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolKimihiko Kitase is a seasoned enterprise marketing leader with 11+ years driving demand and brand growth for cloud and virtualization products, currently heading Enterprise Marketing for Google Cloud in Japan. He combines deep technical roots—from early engineering and escalation roles at Citrix to launching cloud businesses at IBM—with a proven knack for community building and thought leadership that produced large-scale events and active user communities. Known for turning market signals into high-impact ABM and content-driven campaigns, he has repeatedly accelerated pipeline performance and expanded enterprise adoption across North Asia. His track record includes founding Japan’s first Hadoop Summit, leading IBM Cloud and CloudStack community programs, and authoring technical books that cemented his reputation as a regional expert. Colleagues value his ability to bridge engineering rigor and marketing creativity, enabling tight go-to-market integration for complex products. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he pairs strategic vision with hands-on execution and a history of building teams and ecosystems that outpace competitors.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Economics, BS, Economics at Kobe University of Commerce
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (2)
gcp5
hortonworks2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kkitase/script
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 71 pushes in 2 years 6 months
hortonworksjp/data-tutorials
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 113 pushes in 4 months
hortonworks
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