Takeru Yamamoto — Managing Director of Asia-Pacific Region at Medidata

Mr. Takeru Yamamoto serves as the Managing Director of Asia - Pacific Region of Medidata Solutions, Inc. Mr. Yamamoto served as Sales Executive of Medidata Solutions, Inc. He has more than 10 years of industry experience in clinical R&D, project management and system implementation consulting to his role as managing director of the Asia-Pacific region. Since joining Medidata in 2005, he's held various roles of increasing responsibility in sales and marketing. He began his career at CSK (now SCSK) as a software engineer, where he designed and programmed a wide range of clinical software systems. He then moved to Itochu Techno Science Group (now Itochu Techno Solutions Corporation) to manage the systems integration business for pharmaceutical R&D clients. He received his BA in science education from Chiba University. Mr. Yamamoto previously held various management-level consulting positions at CTC Laboratory Systems Corporation and worked with companies including Pfizer Japan and Takeda Pharmaceutical to introduce electronic data capture systems to the Japanese market.