Summary
Noriaki Fushihara is a seasoned sales and industry leader with 13+ years driving enterprise planning and transformation for the automotive sector at Anaplan, backed by long-form experience at SAP, Kinaxis, HP, Compaq and DEC. As Regional Vice President for Automotive, he combines deep domain expertise in sourcing, procurement and supply-chain planning with a track record of translating digital planning capabilities into measurable business impact for Japanese manufacturers. He recruits and builds high-performing teams, acting as a hiring manager focused on scaling enterprise go-to-market operations in a rapidly changing market. Technically fluent from a developer’s perspective, he has hands-on experience across web and application technologies (Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Java, C# and more), which helps him bridge technical and commercial conversations. Based in Setagaya, Tokyo, he is passionate about using digital transformation to modernize legacy planning processes and quietly maintains hobby projects touching MPEG-TS and niche Japanese web communities. His career blends consultative enterprise sales with practical technical literacy, making him effective at selling complex SaaS solutions to engineering-driven customers.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
明治大学