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Toshiba Software India ropes in Takashi Ishikawa as managing director

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Toshiba Software India ropes in Takashi Ishikawa as managing director

Ishikawa will lead Toshiba Software across the company’s software solution business in the country.

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Toshiba Software, a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation has announced the appointment of Takashi Ishikawa as its new managing director. Ishikawa is appointed to lead Toshiba Software across the company’s software solution business in the country.

Welcoming Ishikawa as the new MD, Hidehido Koka, the erstwhile managing director at TSIP says in a press note, “It was an enriching and a humbling experience for me. After heading India operations for seven years, I can confidently state that the stint in India remains the most memorable one. The diversity of people, their culture and the unique business opportunity and challenges that India posed is enormous and one of its kind.”

Takashi Ishikawa

Commenting on his new role, Ishikawa shares, “Toshiba Software India is an intrinsic part of the Group’s digital and software transformation. Hidehido Koka has played an instrumental role in expanding the business and establishing TSIP as a leader in providing software solutions at all layers of software architecture. With my experience, I look forward to pursue the ‘ACROSS & BEYOND’ philosophy to set new benchmarks for service delivery and customer delight.”

Ishikawa adds further, “Our ‘ACROSS & BEYOND’ philosophy is in line with the Group’s commitment to ‘Make-in-India and Export-from-India’, aimed at establishing TSIP as a technology hub for industries like robotics and AI, move from Off-shore development to becoming a Centre of Excellence for companies entering India, and expand our operations to systems solution development, consultancy, and hardware development, while focusing on our quality assurance”.

A post graduate in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, USA, Ishikawa is a Toshiba veteran for almost three decades and has been associated with many new product developments.

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