Hiroko received her MBA from Ohio State University, Ph.D from Hokkaido University, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She worked as a project manager for over 25 years at several multi-national companies. She served as the Secretary General of the PMI Japan Chapter for several years. She is the CEO of Aska Planning, Inc. a global project management consulting company in Japan. Her specialty is I.T. project management. She has also authored several books on project management and PMO.