Wataru is responsible for evangelizing and product marketing for VMware Japan. Wataru has spent more than 15 years in the IT industry, based on Japan and US, as product management, product marketing, evangelist, business development, and R&D. The diverse areas that he has worked on runs across cloud computing, storage, network, management, etc. He began his career with NEC, then worked with NEC Corporation of America, Dell, and works now for VMware.