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Board of Directors
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Toru Kashima, Chairman and CEO of SRA OSS Inc.
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Mr.Toru Kashima is the President and CEO of SRA Inc. which has 14
subsidiaries globally including US, Europe and Asia.
Born in 1952, Mr. Kashima graduated from the University of Tokyo
(Law Faculty) and started his career at the Japanese National Railways.
He then got his Masters degree in Applied Economics at University of Michigan
in 1981, and joined SRA in 1984. He worked diligently at SRA and formed
several overseas subsidiaries, one in New York
(US) in 1984 another in Amsterdam (The
Netherlands) in 1991 and yet another one in Bangalore
(India)
in 2001 . Mr. Toru Kashima has played a significant role to expand the
business and operations of SRA globally. Finally in 2003 he became the
president and CEO of SRA,Inc. In this new global role he has been
successfully promoting the growth of SRA leveraging it’s technical
excellence in computer software and it's global reach.
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Dr. Rao Papolu, President of SRA OSS Inc.,
Board of Director at Proxim Wireless.
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Dr Rao Papolu is the President of SRA OSS Inc. the newly launched
subsidiary of SRA Inc.(Japan).Till
recently Dr. Rao has been the Vice President of SRA America,Inc. and has
been in this position since February 2001. In the past he has held
prominent positions as Country Manager for EMRC Japan as well as General
Manager of Moldflow and has successfully managed their channel partners
and distri-butors such as ISI Dentsu, Bosch, Kubota Graphics, IBM Japan.
Dr. Rao brings with him a wealth of technology and business experience in
his career span of 24 years of which 14 years were spent in Tokyo (Japan). He has been at
leading positions in the manufacturing and financial services industry
with companies such as Lehman Brothers (Asia Securities), JP Morgan and
it's Derivatives spin-off Cygnify as Vice President, and has also helped
several leading customers such as Epson, Honda, Ricoh, Fuji Film. Dr Rao is in the Board of
Directors at Proxim Wireless. Proxim Wireless (NASDAQ: PRXM) is a
global pioneer in scalable broadband wireless networking systems,
including WiMAX, Mesh and Wifi, for communities, enterprises, governments
and service providers. Dr. Rao received his Doctorate degree from the
prestigious Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Madras. Subsequently he served with
leading Indian research and development institutes. Dr Rao has published
25 research publications in various international journals. He has also
been a visiting scientist at the University
of Michigan, Ann
Arbor as well as the Institute
of Space and Astronautical
Science (ISAS) Japan.
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Tatsuo Ishii, Vice President of SRA OSS Inc.
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Mr.Tatsuo Ishii is the Vice President of SRA OSS, Inc. and General
Manager of Tokyo
branch office. Mr.Ishii has been very closely involved with the Open
Source technology domain particularly PostgreSQL –The most advanced
open source database in the world. He is the founder of the Japan
PostgreSQL Users Group (JPUG)-the largest PostgreSQL community in Japan.
Mr.Ishii joined SRA,Inc. in 1984 and was subsequently transferred in 1991
to Honolulu Research Institute, University of Hawaii
as a research engineer working on Open Source technologies. Since then he
has been focused on Open Source technologies particularly PostgreSQL-the
popular open source database and has been an active member of it’s
community and made valuable contributions Mr. Ishii is a core member of
SRA OSS Inc. strategic technology division and decides the direction and
provides guidance on Open Source initiatives( products and services)
within the company.
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