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Norio Murakami joined Google Japan in April 2003. In his role as President & General Manager he is responsible for all aspects of Google's business in Japan.
Before joining Google Norio was President of Docent Japan where he established the Japanese subsidiary in November 2001. He built a solid foundation of leadership for Docent in Japan and in the e-learning industry generally through many partnerships including those with Accenture NEC and Works Applications.
From 1997 to 1999 Norio was President & CEO of Northern Telecom Japan. In this capacity he successfully merged and integrated the company with Bay Networks Japan whose parent company had been acquired by Northern Telecom and was later re-named Nortel Networks Japan. With the transformation of the business from circuit switching to IP Norio increased the company's revenue and profitability to a historic high in 2000. Through mid-2001 he served as President & CEO of Nortel Networks Japan.
Norio started his career as an engineer for minicomputer systems at Hitachi Electronics K.K. In addition to his service at Northern Telecom he has held a number of management roles such as the CEO-Japan & VP-Corporate for Informix and as a member of the Board of Directors for Marketing at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Japan. This affiliation also included a five-year assignment at DEC headquarters in Massachusetts.
Norio graduated from Kyoto University with a B.S. in Engineering. | 