Hiroshi Mikitani

Chairman and chief executive of online shopping mall operator Rakuten plans to diversify his management and board with foreign nationals as the company expands overseas; eventual goal is to have English as the company language. In October 2010 launched an online shopping mall in China through joint venture with Chinese search engine Baidu. Petitioning Japan Fair Trade Commission to examine the tie up of Yahoo Japan and Google as a potential monopoly on information.