Mr Chujo is the Group President and Chief Executive Officer for GlobalSign and holds additional office as a Director for the publicly quoted GMO Hosting and Security (GMO HS).
Prior to being appointed as Group President and CEO for GlobalSign, Mr Chujo held the position of CEO for GeoTrust Japan. As the exclusive distributor for GeoTrust products in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Asian countries, GeoTrust Japan established itself as the number one independent distributor for GeoTrust worldwide. Within the four years of its operation, GeoTrust Japan had increased GeoTrust market share from 1% to 33% for the domestic Japanese market.
Following the acquisition of GeoTrust Inc by VeriSign, Mr Chujo led a GMO Internet Group assembled specialist management team with the acquisition of GlobalSign where he now holds the office of Group President, CEO and board member. Mr Chujo’s proven leadership and vision of online security market will be key to the growth of GlobalSign in the Japanese, and worldwide, markets.
Before being appointed as CEO of GeoTrust Japan, Mr Chujo was one of the two co-founders of Isle Inc and led the company to achieve the number one market share for the web hosting industry in Japan. Prior to Isle Inc, Mr Chujo founded RapidSite Inc, a company enjoying the reputation as one of the world’s premier hosting providers during the 1990s, and RapidSite Japan Inc, where he continued to hold an Executive Director position until the merger of Isle Inc and RapidSite Japan Inc into the newly named GMO Hosting & Security Inc. GMO HS is now a publicly traded company on the Tokyo stock exchange.
Mr Chujo graduated from the University of Tokai with a Bachelor of Science in 1987.
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