TADASHI ONODERA
Mr. TADASHI ONODERA is President and Chairman of KDDI Corporation, a
full-range of telecommunications operator in Japan.
He became vice president when KDDI was established (merger of DDI, KDD
and IDO) in Oct. 2000 and was nominated for the current position from June
2001.
After receiving Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Tohoku
University, he has been consistently engaged in wireless communications. He
pursued as a founder of DDI, a new common carrier which made an entry to long
distance field in 1984 owing to the deregulation of telecommunications. He was
Director & General Manager of Microwave Engineering (in 1989), and was
Executive Vice President and Senior General Manager of mobile
communications (in 1998). His experience is based on his ability as a technical
expert, but includes many approaches toward customer satisfaction.
He delivered speeches on KDDI’s advanced concept at ITU Telecom World 2003
(Keynote, Business Session), Telecom Asia 2002 (Keynote, Plenary), WSIS
Geneva 2003 (round table), WSIS Tunis 2005 (Plenary), and Telecom World
2006 Hong Kong (Speaker, Plenary).