Speakers

As a Senior Product Consultant, Nanae helps Japanese customers to be successful with Tableau. Prior to joining Tableau, she worked in various roles including product planning, marketing and presales about BI/BA or big data at Fujitsu limited. She holds a B.E. and a M.S. in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from Waseda University.

Masaki has over ten years of experience in the IT industry, and has the ability to launch mission critical platform systems. He supports the journey to data-driven culture in customers’ organizations based on the quality architecture and operations Tableau Japan can provide.

Keiko is a Senior Product Consultant at Tableau Japan, and supports the sales team from a technical perspective. Since joining the team in 2013, she has played multiple roles, not only as a pre-sales engineer, but also as a trainer and deployment advisor. She graduated from the International Christian University and has several internship experiences in non-governmental work, such as the United Nations’ organizations. Prior to joining Tableau, she worked at an American systems integration company in the pre-sales department.

Ryusuke Ashiya is a sales consultant with Tableau Japan K.K. and spends his time helping customers see and understand their data effectively with a Tableau-driven solution. Prior to Tableau, Ryusuke was with NetApp where he specialized in storage and infrastructure technologies. 

Kenji Noguchi works on the presales team to provide technical knowledge for BI infrastructure to our partners, and to help foster a data-driven culture. Kenji collaborates with Partners to create the solution-set by using their internal resources coupled with Tableau’s solutions to expand the value of analytics. He is deeply attached to the “code”!

Kaori is a true Tableau Jedi, who can feel the force of DATA and communicate with it via visualization and storytelling. She helps people understand their data as a Senior Product Consultant in Tableau Japan. Before Tableau, Kaori was in charge of presales and project management in a BI solution. She acquired Tableau Desktop Certified Professional for the first time while working in Japan.

As one of the Product Consultants in Tokyo, Lennart provides customers and prospects with technical expertise to enter the BI world. During his studies of International Business Management at Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, he went abroad to Waseda University. Before joining Tableau, he researched and worked for SAP on his graduation thesis on S/4HANA. He speaks German, English and Japanese.

After seven and a half years of enterprise level customer support and pre-sales experience at Microsoft, she joined Tableau in October 2016. Because her original major was Nutrition, not Statistics or Mathematics, Naoko is able to effectively communicate with customers who don't have a technical IT background.

Hiroyuki Oguchi is a sales consultant at Tableau, Japan. He enables Tableau users to use analytics, data visualization, and Tableau skills in their everyday jobs. Recently, after Hiroyuki became certified as a Registered Management Consultant by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, he became more involved in business analytics challenges, to go deeper and wider than he had before. Before Tableau, Hiroyuki worked at analytics companies such as SPSS and SAS Institute. He holds a couple of master degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He prefers if you call him “Ogu-chan” in casual settings!

Tomoyuki Akahori, also known as Tomo-san, is a professional services engineer at Tableau Japan. Tomo has over 15 years of experience in areas such as architecture, software design, quality assurance, and project management. Internationally, Tomo also has over four years pre-sales and professional services experience at a Canadian software company. His deep knowledge of software and project management helps with customer adoption. Tomo has consulted on numerous “process standardization” and “change control management” projects, and has delivered several classroom trainings in his career.