Ushio joined the firm in 2007 after a 28-year career with Hitachi group including having been the founding CEO of Hitachi Consulting as well as spending many years in various management positions in business planning and leading large-scale systems integration projects.
He originally joined Hitachi after graduating from Tokyo University and later attained his master’s degree at Stanford University.
In his role with the firm, Ushio is responsible for all financial, accounting, operational and administrative processes preparing the company for a future public offering.
Poe commented: “Ushio-san is a great addition to the firm bringing extensive, high-level business experience as we strive toward increased excellence as an organization. His breadth of skills developed in a large, structured company like Hitachi has already proven to be an asset to our organization. We look forward to Ushio-san taking on more responsibility as we are rapidly growing and demanding an increasingly higher level of experience from the new members of the firm”.