Minoru Kosuge
Chief Executive Officer
Minoru Kosuge is Chief Executive Officer of Hitachi Data Systems. Before being elevated to his current position in May 2007, Kosuge served as the company's Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to being named COO in April 2006, Kosuge served as executive vice president and chief storage architect, collaborating with Hitachi Data Systems Global Sales and Hitachi, Ltd.’s Disk Array Systems Division (RSD). From 2003 to 2005, Kosuge was division president of RSD, where he led his team in developing the revolutionary Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™
Kosuge joined Hitachi, Ltd., in 1980 and has held a number of progressively responsible management positions since joining the company. As General Manager of Storage Systems Development for RSD and before that as department manager for the Enterprise Disk Array Hardware Design Department, Storage Systems Development, Kosuge oversaw development of Hitachi’s industry-leading enterprise and modular storage systems.
Kosuge is a native of Nagano, Japan. He holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from Tokyo University.
