MobileIron Opens New Office in Tokyo, Japan

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MobileIron (www.mobileiron.com), the innovator in mobile device management and security, today announced that in response to rapidly growing demand it is expanding its presence in Asia by opening an office in Tokyo, Japan. The company also announced that Mikio Yanashita, a veteran of leading technology companies including APC, Cisco and Nokia, has joined MobileIron as VP of Sales for APAC & Japan. Yanashita is based in Japan.

Yanashita has more than 25 years of experience with both top-tier start-ups and leading high tech companies. He began his career where he introduced the TCP/IP gateway for IBM/Hitachi/Fujitsu mainframe computers. Then he co-developed the first ISDN dial-up router with Telebit (acquired by Cisco). At APC he doubled the networked-UPS business every quarter and built $100M USD business from a scratch. Then at Cisco he ran the company's partner sales division in Japan which he grew the business to over $2B USD. As country manager for Nokia Enterprise in Japan, he grew the fledgling group into a fully productive business unit. He then served as vice president of business development for NetOne System where he drove the adoption of cloud computing in Japan. Mikio has also successfully established and grown the Japanese businesses of US start-ups such as NetScaler (acquired by Citrix) and 3tera (acquired by CA).

"We are seeing explosive demand for mobile device management and security in Asia Pacific and Japan," said Bob Tinker, CEO, MobileIron. "This office demonstrates our commitment to giving our Japanese customers the technology they need to be able to mobilize their businesses and workers now and in the future. We began by delivering local language support in March and providing local technical support in April. We are excited to continue building our business in Japan."

In March, MobileIron announced its reseller agreement with SoftBank BB, the biggest IT distributer in Japan and one of the Group companies of SoftBank Corp. MobileIron is also working with service partner CAC, which launched its Advanced Mobile Device Management Service in March.

MobileIron delivers an innovative, virtual architecture for mobile device management, security and app control. With MobileIron, companies can:

• Support Android,  BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian, WebOS, Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile
• Build enterprise app storefronts to centralize mobile app discovery, deployment and security
• Manage mobile devices – and the data on them – remotely
• Build and enforce customized security and privacy policies
• Get real-time visibility in carrier charges to take action to control costs
• Integrate their mobile device management and security with other enterprise systems

For more information about MobileIron please visit www.mobileiron.co.jp. For assistance in Japan, please contact APJ office at [email protected] or 050-5532-7561.

About MobileIron

Positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software 2011, MobileIron is solving the problems CIOs face as business data and applications move to smart phones and tablets. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform is the first solution to give IT and users real-time intelligence and control over mobile content, activity, and apps in order to secure the enterprise, reduce wireless cost, and improve the mobile user experience. For more information, please visit www.mobileiron.com.

SOURCE MobileIron