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Dr Eisaku Ito
Dr Raman Achutharaman
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Dr Eisaku Ito

Title: President and CEO Company: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Industry: Aerospace & Defence
Dr Eisaku Ito leads Mitsubishi Heavy Industries with dynamic strategy and deep technical engineering experience. He spent around three decades in the business gaining hands-on experience in design, development, experimentation and simulation while developing gas turbines and engaged in projects related to turbochargers and rocket engines, before becoming Chief Technology Officer and eventually CEO.

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Dr Raman Achutharaman

Title: Senior Vice President, Joint Operations Leadership Team
Company: Applied Materials Industry: Technology
Raman Achutharaman directs strategies ensuring operational agility and production capacity at Applied Materials to fulfil demand across global semiconductor markets. With an engineering degree from IIT Madras and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Raman brings decades of technical expertise to major product manufacturing across wafer fabrication.
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