Chief Digital Officer/Chief Information Officer
Specialty
Specialties: Business resilience, IT resilience, digital governance, IT governance、social business
Industries: Financial services; technology,information, communications and entertainment; utilities; public services; retail and consumer markets; manufacturing; transportation and logistics; middle market and start-ups; medical and welfare
Summary of expertise
Kazu leads the Transformation and Business Resilience practice as part of our Risk Assurance practice in Japan. He has been engaged in advisory and assurance projects for over 20 years, and since 2000 has worked as a PwC professional in a wide range of industries. Based on this experience, he is currently leading the Digital Transformation practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan LLC.
External committee activities
- Member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)’s Study Group on Creation of Digital Industry to be Inaugurated
- Member of METI’s Expert Group on Architecture for AI Principles
- Member of the Japanese Banks' Payment Clearing Network (Zengin-net)’s Expert Meeting
- Member of METI’s Study Group for Acceleration of Digital Transformation
- Member of METI’s Study Group on “DX Promotion Indices”
- Member of The Mechanical Social Systems Foundation’s committee on strategy formulation for application of blockchain technology, The Mechanical Social Systems Foundation
- Counselor of Association for Resilience Japan
Auditor of General Incorporated Association Yunusu Japan
Certificates
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
- Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT)
- Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
- Database Specialist (METI Certification)