Asurion Asia Pacific Strengthens Presence In Japan With The Appointment Of New Country Manager
SINGAPORE, 4 August 2004 - Asurion Asia Pacific, the leading provider of value-added solutions to the wireless industry, has appointed Mr. Takashi Kido as the Country Manager of Asurion Japan. As country manager, he will be responsible for overseeing the business operations and driving the growth of the company in Japan.
"Japan is a unique and highly mature wireless market in this region and represents tremendous growth opportunities for Asurion's value-added solutions, which include handset insurance, data backup and consumer leasing. Building on Asurion's expertise in North America, we are confident of replicating our success in the United States in the Asia Pacific. The appointment of Mr. Kido as the Country Manager of our Japan office reiterates our commitment to Japan and provides the local expertise needed to create effective and customized solutions for our Japanese partners," said Dan Currie, President and CEO of Asurion Asia Pacific.
"I am excited to be a part of the Asurion team in Japan and am optimistic that 2004 will be a good year for us as Japanese carriers begin to understand the significance of Asurion's unique value-added services to the wireless industry and recognize the worth of Asurion's value proposition, which is to reduce churn, improve customer satisfaction and increase profitability," said Mr. Kido.
Prior to joining Asurion Japan, Mr. Kido was the CEO of DoubleClick Japan. Before that he was the Supply Chain Management consultant at i2 Technologies and was responsible for many supply chain improvement projects. Mr. Kido has also served as the Business Process Reengineering and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Consultant at KPMG to Consumer Package Goods companies. He was also previously with McDonald's for 20 years, responsible for developing its marketing strategies and overseeing its supply chain management.
About Asurion Asia Pacific
Asurion is the leading provider of mobile protection services to the wireless telecommunications industry with solutions that include handset insurance and data backup to help mobile operators generate additional revenue, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. Our wide-ranging expertise includes customer contact, distribution, risk management, product development, repair, reverse logistics and field support. Asurion has the scale and the scope to deliver unsurpassed quality of service. We have over 5,000 employees worldwide and works with operators such as NTT DoCoMo, Korea Telecom Freetel, Cingular,
T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless to serve millions of subscribers.
For more information, please visit www.asurion.com.sg.