Masanobu Hirano, Vice President/General Manager, Japan Software industry veteran Masanobu Hirano manages Red Hat's Japanese operations. Prior to Red Hat, Mr. Hirano was president of Hyperion Japan, a subsidiary of Hyperion Solutions, one of the country's most successful online analytical processing (OLAP) solution vendors. He also served as vice president and was a board member of ASCII Corporation, one of Japan's pioneering computer software companies. [ Full Management Team ]