The former CEO of a Japanese technology company worth 400 billion yen joins FPT

Mr. Toru Tanihara, the former CEO of SCSK (a reputable Japanese IT company with a revenue of up to 400 billion yen under the Sumitomo Group), has assumed the role of Chairman of FPT Japan since the beginning of April 2023.

During his three-year term, Mr. Toru Tanihara will lead the strategic technology services and digital transformation division of FPT Japan. He will also be in charge of the highest-level diplomatic relations of the company with customers and strategic partners. 

Mr. Toru Tanihara - Chairman of FPT Japan

The new Chairman of FPT Japan will focus on strengthening training and expanding knowledge in various fields to get a better understanding of customer needs, accelerate growth, and contribute to FPT Japan's revenue target of 1 billion dollars by 2027.

With 40 years of experience in the technology industry from SCSK and Sumitomo, he will focus on creating new business models, services, and products by combining existing resources with new knowledge. Mr. Tanihara expects to bring innovation in business mindset to FPT Japan in light of a world with many uncertainties, complexities, and ambiguities.

Mr. Toru Tanihara is a renowned business leader in the technology industry in Japan, with a reputation closely associated with Sumitomo Group - one of the four largest trading and investment conglomerates in Japan, and the SCSK company. He previously served as CEO, Advisor, and Board Member of the SCSK and a senior advisor to the Sumitomo Group. As of March 2021, Sumitomo Group recorded total assets of up to 73 billion dollars, with 75,000 employees operating in 65 countries worldwide.

FPT Japan is famous as the biggest foreign technology company in terms of the workforce in the Land of the Rising Sun, ranked among the Top 50 technology companies in Japan, with 30% of its recruitment coming from 16 different countries. Recently, FPT Japan was also named the best workplace in Japan by Great Place To Work Institute - Fortune's global agency for workplace culture.

Japan is one of the two largest markets for FPT, with unique characteristics of the world's giant enterprises, long-established technology systems, and rich developmental history. Therefore, the high-level talent recruitment strategy is expected to help the company gain deeper insights into the market and create new technological solutions tailored to this high-standard market, thereby driving growth.
As a global technology corporation, FPT focuses on expanding its operational scale and emphasizes strengthening the use of local experts and workforce to gain competitive advantages, plus getting a greater understanding of the business culture and local practices in each market. Therefore, FPT's workforce is constantly expanding in terms of nationalities and work locations. Currently, the company has 42,408 employees operating in 29 countries and territories, including 1,681 foreign employees from 52 different nationalities, such as the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Slovakia, the Philippines, India, etc., representing a 27% increase compared to the same period. In addition, since 2021, various international experts and senior leaders, such as those from Airbus and Infosys, have joined the company to implement projects for thousands of enterprise customers worldwide, including over 100 partners listed in the Forbes Global 500.