Leadership
Masakazu Asano
Board Member
Masakazu Asano oversees R&D at both GlobalSign and GlobalSign HD.
He began his career as a system development engineer and entered the PKI industry in 2000 as part of Baltimore Technologies.
Since then, he has been engaged in raising awareness of PKI technologies in Japan, developing PKI systems, formulating Certification Authority policies, and providing PKI consulting services to cli-ents.
In 2006, he joined GeoTrust Japan and soon participated as a project manager in the launch of GlobalSign services, leveraging his expertise as a PKI specialist.
He later took on the role of managing system development as a whole and has been leading R&D for the GlobalSign HD Group since 2019.
Masakazu holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Hosei University in Tokyo.