Ryuji Yamada

President and chief executive, NTT DoCoMo Inc.

Ryuji Yamada has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of NTT DoCoMo since June 2008. From July 1999 to June 2004 he held various top managerial positions at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. (NTT West). Born on May 5, 1948 Mr. Yamada started his career at Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) in April 1973 as a network engineer after graduating from Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering with a master’s degree in telecommunication engineering.