ASHISUTO - Key Persons

Atsushi Ikematsu

Job Titles:

Member of the Corporate Officers Team

Bill Totten - Chairman

Job Titles:

Chairman
Member of the Corporate Officers Team
Partner
Representative Director
Chairman and Representative Director of K.K.

Bill Totten is Chairman and Representative Director of K.K. Ashisuto, Japan's leading independent distributor of packaged computer software for large organizations. He was born, raised and educated in Southern California. His education includes a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in economics from the University of Southern California. Dr. Totten worked on the Apollo program at Rockwell Corporation from 1963 to 1967 and on various projects at System Development Corporation from 1967 to 1971. SDC sent him to Tokyo in August 1969 to research the Japanese computer market, and he has lived here continuously since then. His market research convinced him of the great potential for packaged computer software in Japan. When SDC decided not to enter the software package business in Japan, Dr. Totten resigned and established K.K. Ashisuto in March 1972 to distribute computer software packages to corporations and other large organizations. Dr. Totten has been CEO of K.K. Ashisuto ever since. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a small staff in Tokyo providing a few localized software packages, to a highly-regarded nationwide enterprise by distributing, supporting and providing consultative services for dozens of software packages to thousands of leading Japanese corporations.