Yuji Hirokawa
President & Chief Operating Officer(COO) KELA Group JAPAN
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
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Top SchoolYuji Hirokawa is a seasoned technology executive with over three decades of experience growing and transforming IT and cybersecurity businesses in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. As president and COO of KELA Group Japan and former president of Secureworks Japan and Red Hat Japan, he has repeatedly built high-performing sales, partner and service organizations, driving double-digit CAGR and market-leading share in MDR/XDR, incident response and open source platforms. His career spans enterprise storage, middleware, big data and cloud-native networking, with a track record of launching partner ecosystems and subscription-based business models that scaled teams from dozens to hundreds. Known for winning executive trust—more than 300 CxOs in Japan—and orchestrating rapid regional growth, he combines strategic global account management with hands-on operational execution. An early Hitachi global sales leader who lived and led in California, he pairs deep domestic market knowledge with international GTM experience and a researcher’s curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Keio University (慶應義塾大学)
English
Github Skills (10)
dynamics9
physics9
python7
electron6
fortran5
llvm3
evaluation3
compiler2
binary-serialization1
serialization1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yabana/ARTED
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:95 commits in 8 months
yhirokawa/ARTED
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:233 pushes, 169 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
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