Fujitsu Americas Executive Team

Mikito Kiname
President and CEO
Fujitsu America, Inc.

Mikito “Mike” Kiname is president and CEO of Fujitsu America, Inc., the management company of a group of Fujitsu-owned businesses operating in North, Central and South America dedicated to delivering Fujitsu products, solutions and services in ICT to clients in the Western Hemisphere. He has responsibility for the company’s regional strategy and direction for the Fujitsu portfolio of business and technology consulting services, digital solutions, computing platforms and industry solutions. Mike reports to Hidehiro Tsukano, head of the Americas region, Chairman of the Board and president and CEO of Fujitsu North America Holdings, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Fujitsu America, Inc.

Prior to taking on this role in November of 2018, Mike was president and CEO of Fujitsu Network Communications, where he led the company’s Optical and Wireless Network products and service solutions business. Previous to taking on this role, he served as head of Global Marketing for Fujitsu Limited.

Kiname-san joined Fujitsu Limited in 1981 and has served in a wide variety of leadership roles during the course of his career. He has spent more than 10 years in Texas to fulfill these roles, and also held several other global leadership positions including vice president of the Europe Division in the Fujitsu Global Business Group, and CEO of Fujitsu India Private Limited.

Mike will continue to reside in Texas. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Waseda University in Shinjuku, Japan.

Mervyn Eyre
President and CEO, Fujitsu Caribbean and Head of Caribbean, Central America and Mexico
Fujitsu Americas

Mervyn Eyre serves as president and chief executive officer of Fujitsu Caribbean, Central America and Mexico, where he is responsible for managing the strategic direction and general management of Fujitsu operations and assets in this region. Leveraging more than 25 years of experience in the global ICT industry, Mervyn has been instrumental in leading the introduction of managed and cloud-based digital services in the region, opening up new, agile, pay-as-you use consumption models to Caribbean governments and enterprises. He is driving the company’s continued growth to become the region’s leading IT services company and provider of digital business solutions.

In addition to his regional responsibilities, Mervyn recently served in an interim role as Head of Managed Infrastructure Services for the Americas, where he was instrumental in leading the successful transition and transformation, delivery management and strategic engagement for Fujitsu’s largest customers in North America. Subsequent to this role, he was appointed to lead the strategic partner alliance and enhancements with Microsoft Azure in support of Fujitsu’s multi-cloud strategy in the Americas region.

Through Mervyn’s astute business planning, operational excellence and steadfast commitment to employees and customers, Fujitsu Caribbean, Central America and Mexico has experienced year on year growth and profitability and is a recognized, trusted leader in digital services, IT consulting, systems integration and the management of IT operations.

Kuniyuki Suzuki
President Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu Brazil

Since 2015, Kuniyuki Suzuki has been the President Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu do Brasil, where he oversees approximately 350 employees in Brazil as well as three additional Fujitsu operations in South America including Argentina, Chile and Colombia, where he is responsible for all solutions delivered by Brazil including Platform Products, Service Business, Scanners and Security Products, like PalmSecure, which became a standard biometrics in the Brazilian Market.

Mr. Suzuki began his career at Fujitsu in 1992 in the International Sales Group in Japan. He has worked internationally for many years, including Spain, supporting Fujitsu Spain Business, as well as Fujitsu Australia from 1998-2004 as Business Assurance Manager. After returning to Japan for a brief period, in 2006 Mr. Suzuki was assigned to Fujitsu do Brasil as Marketing Director, and after many years of demonstrated success, he was named President Director and CEO. His deep knowledge and experience in international markets and Latin American countries give Mr. Suzuki a differentiated vision about business that is uniquely and truly global.

Sherry Casey
Head of Canada
Fujitsu Americas

Sherry Casey is Head of Canada at Fujitsu Americas, where she leads the development, execution and attainment of the country’s strategic objectives, go-to-market and operational plans. In addition to driving revenue and profit growth and excellence in service delivery and customer satisfaction, Sherry also is focused on developing and growing the team in Canada.

Sherry has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, where she has held various executive leadership roles with major account, sales and P&L responsibility at several large, global IT service providers. Her work has been recognized by renowned industry organizations, where she has been the recipient of multiple awards for corporate growth and customer excellence.

Sherry is passionate about people and building long-term, meaningful relationships with both customers and employees. She is adept at developing talent and fostering employee engagement, and throughout her career, she has initiated and led several mentoring programs, including programs targeting the broad employee population as well as executive development programs, some of which were designed to encourage female leaders to grow into leadership roles. For this and other work, Sherry was recognized as a “Woman of Influence” by EDS.

Sherry has a daughter and son-in-law living in Toronto and a son and daughter living in Ottawa. Sherry currently resides in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband and two Golden Retrievers.

Dixie Erwin
Head of Digital Technology Services
Fujitsu Americas

Dixie Erwin is head of Digital Technology Services at Fujitsu Americas with overall responsibility for the strategy, execution and end-to-end management of the region’s industry-led, digital consulting and professional services business. This includes enterprise application and transformation services, software-as-a-service, Hybrid IT and digital workplace services.

Dixie has more than 25 years of consulting experience in IT strategy, systems and technology, and complex program delivery. She’s held a number of senior leadership roles throughout her career and is adept at working alongside clients to drive technology strategies that align to their business objectives and key industry and marketplace opportunities. She specializes in the design and execution of complex programs that require multi-national management and coordination, and she has successfully led a number of these engagements for several large global companies.

Dixie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with an Honors distinction in English Literature from California State University, Chico, as well as a Master of Management degree in Business Strategy and Marketing from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Dixie currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Youth Centers, the Board of Trustees for the Hinsdale Community House, and the Board of Directors for the International Women’s Forum, Chicago.

She lives in the Chicago area with her husband Rick and their four children.

Heather Engen
Head of Platform Products Group
Fujitsu Americas

Heather Engen is Head of Platform Products Group for Fujitsu Americas, where she is responsible for the company’s mobile and enterprise products business including the development of region’s go-to-market strategy and sales, its value proposition as well as identifying Fujitsu target markets and executing the company’s vision and strategy in the region.

Heather’s brings a wealth of experience to Fujitsu, including worldwide product management of a desktop product line. She has also lead a Services/Marketing and Sales division in North America and has held responsibilities in marketing, sales enablement, pre-sales technical support, solution architecture and sales operations.

She is a graduate of the University of South Dakota and earned her MBA in business from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. She currently resides in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.

Ray Caul
Head of Retail Operations
Fujitsu Americas

Ray W. Caul Head of Retail Operations. In this role, he has responsibility for industry software, hardware, solutions and services for the Americas region. In this position, he is responsible for overall management of retail customers, portfolio development, field service operations and partner management. His experience in client management, operations, mergers and acquisitions, along with service transformation makes him well-suited for this critical role.

Ray brings more than 20 years of experience, having joined Fujitsu in 1997. He has undertaken a number of client-facing and operational positions throughout the retail industry, specializing in managing large accounts and complex operations. He has an impressive record of achievements based on building strong partnerships with senior executives and implementing leading edge practices. During his time with Fujitsu, he has gained considerable depth of experience by working throughout many operations in the Americas and globally.

Mr. Caul holds an Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice and executive MBA certificate from the Drucker School of Business. He is a veteran of United States Army and has been awarded several awards and citations.

Adam Steinberg 
Head of Digital Business Services 
Fujitsu Americas

Adam Steinberg leads Fujitsu America’s Digital Business Services strategic growth business focused on developing and deploying industry-focused, IP-based, innovative solutions enabled by emerging digital technologies such as AI, Advanced Analytics, Blockchain, IoT and Quantum Computing.

Mr. Steinberg is a collaborative and innovative management consulting executive known for building and growing high-performance businesses. Through trusted advisory relationships with C-Suite and senior leaders, he helps customers reimagine business process, solution ideation and project delivery for consult-to-operate (SLaaS) offerings. His areas of expertise include: digital and business transformation advisory, AI and Cognitive, intelligent process automation, advanced analytics, big data, and business development.

Prior to joining Fujitsu, Mr. Steinberg was a senior executive at IBM Global Business Services for 15 years, where he held several industry and service line leadership roles, the last of which was as founder and head of IBM’s Cognitive Consulting practice. Previously, he was a consulting partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers for eight years, where he focused on large account management and delivered Analytics and CRM solutions in the Media and Entertainment industry.

Mr. Steinberg lives in New Jersey and holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kazuhiko Endo
Chief Product Officer
Fujitsu Americas

Kazuhiko Endo is Chief Product Officer of Fujitsu Americas, where he brings his deep knowledge and experience in enterprise products to the Engineering and Product Related Services (PRS) areas. In his role, Endo-san focuses on the development of the Global Engineering Support roadmap and developing new, cutting-edge products leveraging the Fujitsu global portfolio, experts from our Platform Products Group (PPG) engineers, and the many advantages offered by the company’s location in Silicon Valley.

In addition, Endo-san works with Heather Engen to drive the PPG growth strategy and related plans and helps the region make important connections throughout Japan to build strong collaborative relationships required for success.

Endo-san is based out of Sunnyvale, CA.

Viren Agrawal
Head of Services Sales
Fujitsu Americas

Viren Agrawal is Head of Services Sales for Fujitsu Americas. In this role, Viren leads sales for Digital Services and Incubation, Business and Application Services, Managed Infrastructure Services, and Enterprise and Cyber Security businesses. He also oversees specialized sales teams including industry experts, sales for Japanese Originated Companies (JOC) and pre-sales engineers.

Viren brings more than 20 years of experience in IT Services, primarily in Sales and leadership roles, having led regional and offering Sales teams in Asia, Europe and Americas. Prior to his appointment in 2017, Viren served as head of Managed Infrastructure Services for Americas, where he oversaw the successful transition and transformation, delivery management and strategic engagement for many of Fujitsu’s largest customers in the region.

Viren received his bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in planning from Indian Institute of Technology. He received his Master of Business Administration from the Cox School of Business, SMU at Dallas.

Hideya Sugishima
Head of JOC Sales
Fujitsu Americas

Hideya Sugishima is Head of Sales for Japanese Originated Companies (JOC). In this role, he and his team are responsible for all sales activities for JOC customers operating in the Americas region.

Prior to taking on this role in 2014, Sugishima-san was responsible for sales to JOC customers in the automotive industry in the Americas, a role he took on in 2010. Prior to this, he worked in the Japan Sales, Manufacturing and Distribution Industry Sales Group, where he developed global strategy for automotive industry and directed global business development, sales and marketing activities.

Sugishima-san has been with Fujitsu for more than 30 years primarily in Sales, Strategy and Marketing roles in Japan and the US. He is based in New York City.

Cory Jones
Head of Marketing
Fujitsu Americas

Cory Jones is Head of Marketing for Fujitsu Americas, where he is responsible for executing the global marketing strategy, regionalizing programs, as appropriate, and delivering marketing programs focused on generating demand for the Fujitsu portfolio. This includes the full marketing lifecycle including go-to-market strategy, launch plans for key offerings, sales enablement tools and demand generation campaigns, all of which are underpinned by demand center marketing capabilities and analytics to optimize social, web and digital marketing performance. He also oversees analyst and third party advisor research, market and competitor intelligence, and customer references to equip sales with additional data and proof points and evolve marketing programs and offerings.

With more than 20 years of traditional, digital marketing and demand generation experience, Cory has led large, global teams primarily in ICT and has been responsible for customer acquisition, win-back and retention, and brand marketing. He is also experienced at marketing automation, building commercial demand centers and integrating web and CRM platforms.

Cory graduated from Texas Tech University and currently resides in the Dallas/Fort Worth area with his family.

Ryo Nagano
Chief Financial Officer
Fujitsu Americas

Ryo Nagano is chief financial officer of Fujitsu Americas with responsibility for the company's financial processes and reporting including the mid-term plan, annual budget, monthly performance review and report, cash management, and structural re-alignment.

Nagano-san joined Fujitsu Limited in 1985 and, over the course of his career at Fujitsu, has been in charge of various business management and support functions for Japan and regions outside Japan including Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the US in disciplines including Corporate and Global Strategy, Internal Control and Governance, M&A, Investor Relations including PR, Internal Audit and Risk Management, and Legal and Commercial. He is a non-executive board member of Fujitsu do Brasil Ltda., and previously served as a non-executive board member of Fujitsu Asia Pte. Ltd and Fujitsu Korea Ltd and was also an executive board member of Fujitsu Australia.

Nagano-san graduated from Kyoto University in Japan with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and received his MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and has two sons, and splits his time between Japan and Richardson, TX.

Dan Braun
Chief Legal Officer
Fujitsu Americas

Dan Braun is chief legal officer of Fujitsu Americas with overall responsibility for the region’s legal affairs and legal issues related to the company and its subsidiaries.

Dan has been with Fujitsu for more than 19 years, having previously provided legal support for the consulting and infrastructure services business units. Prior to the formation of Fujitsu Americas, Dan served as general counsel for Fujitsu Consulting, Inc. Before joining Fujitsu, Dan practiced Corporate Law at law firms in the New York metropolitan area.

Dan received his J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Rutgers College.

Jeff Meier
Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer
Fujitsu Americas

Jeff Meier is Chief Information Officer for Fujitsu Americas and is responsible for the Information Technology Group for Fujitsu subsidiaries in the Americas region, covering Operations, Enterprise Applications, Electronic Business Solutions and Cyber Security for Information, Communications and Technology (ICT).

Jeff also serves as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the region, working closely with the Fujitsu Global CISO organization to manage the company’s internal cyber-security program.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Penn State University and a Master of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed post-graduate work at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.

Liz Parnell
Head of Business Integration
Fujitsu Americas

Liz Parnell is Head of Business Integration- responsible for strategy, operations, and governance. Additionally, Liz leads new business start-up and post M&A integration- from opportunity identification through to launching, assimilation, and steady-state. She is responsible for ongoing business performance-  working to identify gaps, risks and challenges throughout the organization and establishing cross-functional remediation plans to ensure achievement of stated objectives.

Prior to this role, Liz led the PMO and Professional Services team in Managed Infrastructure Services, during which time she managed the largest clients in the Americas region across a complex, matrixed environment. She has also played a key role in the launch of several new and successful businesses in the Americas including Enterprise and Cyber Security and Fujitsu Defense and National Security.

Liz has global experience leading Infrastructure, Application and Data Warehousing teams, and driving organizational evolution through methodologies such as Lean, Agile at enterprise scale, and right-sourcing. She is passionate about corporate social responsibility and leads the corporate program in the Americas.

Liz attended the State University of New York at Buffalo where she studied Political Science. She resides in Dallas with her husband and three sons.