Hitachi Names Amada VP, GM Hitachi America R&D Division; Takeda Named President, CVC Unit of Hitachi America.Business Editors & High Tech Writers BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001 Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HIT) today announced that it has appointed Eiichi Amada vice president and general manager of the Research and Development Division of Hitachi America, Ltd. He succeeds Dr. Kenji Takeda, who has been named president of the Corporate Venture Capital unit of Hitachi America, Ltd. The appointments are effective January 21. Mr. Amada, 49, most recently was senior manager of the Hitachi, Ltd., Corporate Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. Office. He has been engaged in research and development activity associated with Information and Telecommunication system field since he joined Hitachi, Ltd.'s Central Research Laboratory in 1976. He was promoted to senior researcher, Central Research Laboratory in 1988 and to department manager, Central Research Laboratory in 1995. He was transferred to Business Development Division in 1999 and became senior manager, Corporate Strategic Planning Office in 2000. Mr. Amada is a graduate of Tokyo University with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. . Dr. Takeda, 53, has served as head of the Hitachi America, Ltd. R&D Division since June 1998 and has had responsibility of the North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. operations of the Corporate Venture Capital unit since July, 2000. He joined Hitachi America in June 1998 from Hitachi, Ltd., where he served as department manager of the Business Development Office of Hitachi, Ltd. since August of 1995. From 1993 to 1995, he was department manager of the Technology Management Center of the Information System Business Group of Hitachi, Ltd. From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Takeda was department Manager of the Computer Packaging Technology Center of the Production Engineering Research Laboratory. He joined Hitachi in 1971 as a researcher in the Production Engineering Research Laboratory. Dr. Takeda has a Doctorate and a Master's in Engineering from the University of Tokyo “Todai” redirects here. For the restaurant called Todai, see Todai (restaurant). The University of Tokyo (東京大学 and a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . Hitachi America, Ltd. markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer systems and products, consumer electronics and semiconductors, and provides industrial equipment and services throughout North America. For more information on Hitachi America, visit www.hitachi.com. The Hitachi America, Ltd. R&D Division is comprised of eight laboratories, including the Automotive Products Research Laboratory, Farmington Hills Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , Mich.; the Digital Media Systems Laboratory, Princeton, N.J.; the Information Technology Laboratory, Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.; the Systems LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Research Laboratory, San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.; the Network Systems Research Group, Santa Clara, Calif.; the SAN Technology Lab, Santa Clara, Calif.; the Service Systems Research Group, Santa Clara, Calif.; and the Design Center in San Diego, Calif. Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1999 (ended March 31, 2000) consolidated sales of 8,001 billion yen ($75.5 billion(1)). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at http://www.hitachi.co.jp. (1) At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar. |
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