GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. (GMO-PG) Senior Managing Executive Officer CTO Takashi Mitani has been established as of July 1, 2023. We are pleased to announce that I have been appointed as a director of the CTO Association of Japan.

■About the Japan CTO Association (URL: https://cto-a.org/)
The Japan CTO Association was established in September 2019 with the goal of making Japan a nation with the highest level of technology in the world. The main activities are "DX company standard creation", "community management", "research and reports", and "policy recommendations". In an era of constant change, we will return to society the knowledge and experience of CTOs who have achieved self-transformation and continue to embody continuous evolution, and the people who are heading with us beyond, and greatly advance the transformation of Japan. Utilizing technology centered on digital, we will make value creation and continuous provision through self-transformation a Japan society.

■Takashi Mitani Biography

GMOペイメントゲートウェイ株式会社 専務執行役員CTO
システム本部 ITサービス統括部 統括部長
日本アイ・ビー・エム株式会社にてスタートアップ、中小企業、メガバンクを担当アーキテクトとして歴任。その後シンガポールへ赴任。金融系グローバルプロジェクトにて、プロジェクト・エグゼクティブを担当。2017年にGMO-PGへ入社し、CTOとして全体アーキテクチャーや内製組織の拡充およびグローバル展開を推進。