Toshiya Cho is Senior Evangelist, and Managing Director of Financial Information Systems Sales Management Division, Hitachi, Ltd.
Toshiya has a career as a systems engineer, business consultant for the financial industry as well as a banker. Before joining Hitachi, he was responsible for Internet Banking and CRM at Citibank N.A.(Japan)and has been involved in a wide range of business and technologies related to marketing, channel strategies, biometrics, and artificial intelligence and blockchain through his business career. He acted as a Governing Board Member of Hyperledger for 5 years until March 2021. He is a frequent speaker at industrial events and academia and a visiting lecturer at the University of Tsukuba. He co-authored “E-Commerce Banking Strategies” (2000), Toyo Keizai, Inc. Toshiya holds a BA in economics from Waseda University and MBA in marketing and international business from New York University.