Yasuhiro Mita had spent four years as managing director of Docomo Capital and has transferred to being a manager at NTT Docomo, the group's mobile phone operator.

Japan-based phone operator NTT has transferred Yasuhiro Mita (pictured) from its US-based corporate venturing subsidiary, Docomo Capital.

Mita had spent four years as managing director of Docomo Capital and has transferred to being a manager at NTT Docomo, the group’s mobile phone operator.

In July last year, Yasufumi Yamashita joined NTT Finance as a director of NTT Investment Partners, the group’s Japan-based corporate venturing investment company.

Yamashita  had joined NTT in 1988 before moving over to NTT Urban Development in July 2006. As well as being a director of NTT Investment Partners, Yamashita is also concurrently head of the Strategic Technology Investment Department and head of the International Business Department.

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.