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Kentaro Shikanai is a Senior Director Analyst on the CIO Industries team and the Advanced Manufacturing and Transportation. Mr. Kentaro covers CIO agendas in Manufacturing industries like business and technology trends, digital business strategies, value chain optimization, smart manufacturing, carobon neutrality, digital ecosystem.

Also, he advises Technology Service Providers on strategic go-to-market opportunities, solution positioning, market messaging and perspectives on the future industry direction.

Prior to joining Gartner, he started his career at a technology service provider in Japan, where he founded managed cloud services and developed new markets. After 3 years, he changed his job to ABeam Consulting to sharpen his quality in global projects mainly in Asia to optimize clients' business process in various industries with traditional/emerging technologies.

Then, he changed his position to software industries, responsible for Go-To-Market, aligning with Sales, Marketing, Solution Engineer, Alliance, Advisory, and Customer Success.

As a volunteer, he joined startup in 2017 as Chief Technology Officer to take charge of IT and digital technologies on their business platform.

Salesforce, Senior Manager, Go-To-Market, 3 years

SAP, Industry Principle, 2 years

ABeam Consulting, Senior Specialist, 7 years