Takashi Goto has been appointed as Head of its Technology Promotion Team, a group set up to help productize well-developed research concepts. Goto was previously a director in the NTT R&D Planning Department and before that, a senior manager and senior research engineer at the NTT Information Network Laboratory Group. He joined NTT Research on July 1, 2022, succeeding Dr Kei Karasawa, who has taken an executive position at NTT R&D in Tokyo. Goto will join the executive team at NTT Research, where he will be responsible for exploring the market potential for technologies under development at NTT Research, as well as NTT R&D. One of the first targets for commercialization is attribute-based encryption (ABE), a form of cryptography that allows for sharing data while preserving the data owner’s privacy. Tech job moves – BitTitan, Extreme Networks, Ivanti & Qualys (itbrief.com.au)