The wholly owned US subsidiary of NTT Communications has appointed Doug Junkins as the chief technology officer of the company. He will succeed Kazuhiro Gomi who was named chief operating officer of NTT America in June of 2009. Skip related content
In his new role, Junkins will be responsible for technology procurement strategy and vendor selection, industry relations and standardization efforts, and overall product portfolio coordination across both the Global IP Network and Enterprise Solutions business units of NTT America. Additionally, he will continue to serve as vice president of IP development for the Global IP Network business unit, overseeing network architecture, tool development and peering relations.
Junkins joined NTT America when the global IP network business was migrated into NTT America from Verio, which was acquired by NTT Communications in August of 2000. Before NTT America, he served as the vice president of IP engineering at Verio. Prior to Verio, he was senior network engineer at NorthWestNet in Seattle.
In July, NTT Com Asia appointed Takanobu Maeda as president and chief executive of both NTT Com Asia and HKNet. NTT America also appointed Michael Wheeler as vice president of its Global IP Network Business Unit.
