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Masaaki Maeda is currently the President & CEO of NTT DOCOMO USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO Inc, Japan's leading mobile telecommunications company. He concurrently holds the title of Associate Senior Vice President in NTT DOCOMO overseeing new business development in the Americas.

Mr. Maeda began his career in the Japanese telecommunications industry at the Technical Development Department of NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation). In March 1994, he moved to NTT DOCOMO, the mobile arm of NTT which was spun off from its parent company in 1992. In October of 2004, Mr. Maeda launched NTT DOCOMO USA's "namikiteru®" service, a public wireless LAN access service catering to the needs of Japanese corporate clients in North America later followed by "namimail®" service in 2005, a software application which allows users to read and write Japanese on BlackBerry® handheld devices.

In September of 2009, Mr. Maeda opened the first NTT DOCOMO customer-service counter in the continental US aimed at providing a seamless user experience to customers travelling in North America. Currently, Mr. Maeda is spearheading the company's development of US-Japan partnerships to promote a new generation of wireless products and services which includes smartphones, electronic readers, and Android™ applications.

Mr. Maeda holds a bachelor and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In addition, he received an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management in June 2002.

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