Chikara Furuichi

Chikara Furuichi is a highly experienced professional in the IT industry with a career spanning over 20 years in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

His expertise lies in network, security, storage, cloud services, system management software, and hardware.

Chikara has held significant leadership positions such as Country Manager and in Direct sales, Partner/OEM Sales, Alliance, and Business Development across Asia Pacific Japan.

He has managed approximately 200 Global and Strategic Accounts and operated from locations in Tokyo and Singapore.

With a proactive approach to talent acquisition, Chikara has hired over 200 skilled individuals, establishing successful business models with Strategic Partners and Customers.

In terms of education, he pursued Executive Program studies in Strategic Marketing and Accounting at the National University of Singapore, complemented by a Bachelor's degree in Information and System Engineering from Chuo University.

Chikara Furuichi has served in key roles including VP&GM, North Asia at Tanium, Vice President, APJ Global and Strategic Account at VMware, Regional Sales Manager at EqualLogic, Regional Sales Manager at Brocade, and Sales Representative at CA Technologies.