Mitsu Sano

March 3, 2003 - StrategyCore K.K. today announced the appointment of Mitsu Sano to its growing advisory board.With the addition of Sano-san, StrategyCore will provide sales acceleration and business management services to global software vendors in Japan."We have known each other for quite some time now, and when I was approached, it seemed a natural fit", said Mitsu Sano, Corporate Advisor, StrategyCore K.K.
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Mitsu Sano commented, "StrategyCore sales acceleration and business management services provide a low risk, low cost method of entering the world's 2nd largest software market".Designed to generate early market revenues to fund future operational growth, the service focuses on partnering with powerful local system integrators and distributors."Without local relationships, it can be difficult for an executive of a global software vendor to directly contact and develop a relationship with Japanese IT executives".

Over the years, Mitsu Sano has sold software to a wide range of industries.

Citrix appointed Mitsu Sano as managing director for Citrix Systems Japan to manage the company's growth and market development.

• Mitsu Sano, Corporate Advisor

Mitsu Sano, Corporate AdvisorMitsu Sano has numerous sales achievements in his 30-year career.Prior to working in partnership with StrategyCore, Mitsu was the CEO of ValiCert Japan, an enterprise security company, where he was instrumental in developing the start-up having developed 9 distribution channels in 2 years.Amongst his notable achievements included selling to all 33 Japanese prefecture governments.Previous to this, Mitsu was managing director of Citrix Systems Japan, where he signed over 80 resellers in under 2 years; Director of Channel Sales for Sybase Japan, responsible for US$100 million in partner revenue; and Sales Executive, Sun Microsystems Japan.Currently Mitsu is President of Progressive Systems, Inc. a provider of secure document management solutions to the Japanese government.Mitsu implements StrategyCore partner search and selection for clients across most application software segments.He earned his B.A. in Politics from Nihon University.

Alexander Garcia-Tobar, vice president, international for ValiCert, will oversee ValiCert's Japanese operations from the corporate headquarters in Mountain View, CA, while working with Mitsu Sano, general manager of ValiCert Japan KK.