Policy SIG Co-chair nominee: Masato Yamanishi

Nominee Statement

Mr. Masato YAMANISHI is currently leading the team of peering and IP address management in SOFTBANK BB Corp as deputy general manager of technology planning department. He also works on international standardization of NGN and IPTV.

He received a master degree in computational chemistry at the Univ. of Tokyo and started his career in the Internet business with starting-up internet data center. After moving to SOFTBANK BB in 2003, he had involved in nation-wide IP network design and various service deployment projects, in particular first IPTV service and largest P2P based streaming service in Japan.

He is actively contributing for Japanese community such as JANOG and JPOPM, and attending various domestic discussions including in government committees. He also participates in international standardization meeting, and well-experienced in international discussion.

He considers that the role of co-chair is to help reaching consensus among all interested parties, and it is challenging task since policy development process is vital for sustainable growth of the Internet.