Mr. Ito has over a decade of IT industry experience in marketing, system engineering and sales.
Ito-san currently has overall responsibility for driving marketing activities for the Japan market segment, including adapting corporate programs, developing new specific activities and identifying/coordinating market requirements.
Prior to Riverbed, Makoto's experiences included roles such as Director of Strategy Development for Secure Computing K.K. (a multi-functional role which included marketing, business development and technical consulting). Additionally, he served in system engineering and marketing roles at Ciphertrust (email security) and system engineering at Cisco Systems.
Ito-san’ s extensive technical background and marketing expertise in VoIP and streaming media applications, firewalls, routers and switches has allowed him to participate the planning, design and implementation of many of Japan’s next generation networks. . A native of Japan, he is also fluent in English with and possesses a Bachelor of Science.