Cloudera Japan Boosts Leadership Team with New Regional Vice President and Country Manager to Accelerate Enterprise AI

Japan, Tokyo – April 3, 2025 – Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, today announced the appointment of Yuji Yamaga as regional vice president (RVP) and country manager of Cloudera Japan as the company intensifies its focus on customer success and business transformation. Cloudera empowers the largest enterprises to transform any data anywhere into valuable insights, while trusting their data and addressing data challenges with the industry’s only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI.

Yuji brings over 40 years of experience in leadership roles across global technology companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Elastic, heading up enterprise sales, cloud, and services teams. During his tenure at Elastic as area vice president and country representative, the company doubled its business in the Japan market. 

Yuji will be responsible for driving Cloudera’s expansion in the country and leading strategic sales, channel direction, and development. With this new executive appointment, Cloudera reaffirms its commitment to further empower organizations in Japan to implement their enterprise AI journey. 

“As the demand for digital transformation continues to grow, I am excited to help innovative organizations across various industries in both public and private sectors tackle transformational use cases. My focus is on helping organizations extract real-time insights from the increasing amount of data to drive value and competitive differentiation,” said Yuji Yamaga. “We are uniquely positioned to provide our customers with the only true hybrid data platform that enables organizations to deliver analytics and AI flexibly and reliably across data centers and the cloud. I am honored to take on this role of RVP and country manager at Cloudera Japan and, together with partners, I am looking forward to helping our Japanese enterprises on their data journey.” 

"I’m excited to welcome Yuji to our leadership bench at a crucial inflection point in the market as AI and its impact sweeps across the business landscape in Japan. Yuji brings a wealth of knowledge and invaluable expertise in AI, which will put our Japan business in good stead as we press forward in our mission to empower Japan organizations to accelerate their enterprise AI journey,” said Remus Lim, Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at Cloudera.

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Cloudera is the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI. With 100x more data under management than other cloud-only vendors, Cloudera empowers global enterprises to transform data of all types, on any public or private cloud, into valuable, trusted insights. Our open data lakehouse delivers scalable and secure data management with portable cloud-native analytics, enabling customers to bring GenAI models to their data while maintaining privacy and ensuring responsible, reliable AI deployments. The world’s largest brands in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing, and government rely on Cloudera to use their data to solve what seemed impossible—today and in the future. 

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