Ken Utsunomiya
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Mizuho Securities
Ken Utsunomiya — CIO and Chief Process Officer at Mizuho Securities / Mizuho Financial Group, responsible for global IT, architecture unification and endtoend process transformation.
He has 25+ years in financial IT and payments, having led BOJ RTGS and Gloss securities settlement implementations, supported JGBCC establishment, and delivered a global bond trading platform while at BNP Paribas (London). At Société Générale I led Japanese incorporation and a major backoffice overhaul. At Mizuho I built the Global Target Operating Model (GTOM), established an offshore CoE in India, integrated operations across NY/London/HK/SG, and drove IT consolidation and cost optimization. I focus on vendor collaboration, large system migrations and regulatory governance.