Hideyuki TORII, President

Born, November 1962.
1986 Graduated from the Department of Information Science, the University of Tokyo. Soon after graduation, entered Sumitomo Bank. His 12-year career encompassed fixed-income trading, middle office management, macro economic researcher, Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets (NY) and Goldman Sachs & Co. N.Y. Fixed Income Division.
July 1998 Established Numerical Technologies.

Specialty: In disguise as an ex-bank employee, but in his true light as a computer scientist and programming expert. He has been working with C/C++ languages since their outset, but is not a computer nerd (he says so). He is one of the generation who start to design hardware with i8080 / 6502 / Z80 / PDP-11, who learnt about software from the source code of 4.1 BSD-UNIX on VAX-11/780, and networks from uucp, as well as learning OO-programming from SmallTalk80 and Simula. A rare breed experienced programming expert in more than 10 languages, he designs financial instruments as well as hardware circuits. Those he admires include Steve Wozniak and Dennis M. Ritchie.

Yoshikazu TSUTSUI, Senior Executive Director

Born, July 1963.
1986 Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. Soon after graduation, entered Sumitomo Bank. During his career with Sumitomo Bank, engaged in portfolio management at the investment securities section.
1994 Passed the CPA. Entered Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Engaged in designing and developing a corporate credit rating system and in designing CreditBrowser^® and assisting its introduction to the marketplace.
1999 Joined Numerical Technologies.

Specialty: A financial professional and accountant, bright and breezy as well as enlightened on the business practices. Provides sophisticated customer support. Good at rationalizing things. Strong in financial analysis as well as in inventory management and looking behind the accounting veil. Keeping sound in both fiscal stance and physical state, a health and fitness nut with piles of health equipment. Likes gadgets, and is trying to build himself a personal computer. His current computer is the fastest desktop PC in the lab, primarily used for its word-processing.

Masahiko HIRANO, Managing Director

Born, February 1962.
1984 Graduated from the Department of Business Management, Faculty of Commercial Science, Yokohama City University. Entered Fuji Xerox.
1987 Entered Digital Equipment Corp., Japan (now Hewlett Packard). , Engaged in sales to major financial institutions with the Integrated Financial System Sales Department.
1998 Joined Numerical Technologies.

Specialty: A man of many faces, member of the Kodaira six-a-side soccer team, JFA authorized referee(class 4), website builder, system industry specialist, and super go-getter. It was him who sold the DEC's top grade UNIX server, AS8400, for the first time in Japan. One of the offspring from the former DEC (acquired by Compaq in 1998, and now Hewlett Packard), a company now recognized as a spawning ground for talented people in the systems industry, he is something to be reckoned with. However, despite his work history in the computing field, he is surprisingly slow operating his PC.