Mitchell Mulder

Mr. Mulder joined Colt Technology Services Co., Ltd. in August 2018 and was appointed Head of Product Management, Asia in April 2023. Drawing on almost 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, he oversees the Product Management and Solutions Engineering organizations across the Asia-Pacific region. He is currently leading Colt’s expansion of its own network footprint into western Japan—including Okayama, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka—which the company has been pursuing since 2023, in order to meet the evolving needs of customers and partners such as system integrators (SIers) and hyperscalers.

Before joining Colt Technology Services, his previous role was at Nokia Solutions and Networks Japan G.K. He served there for approximately nine years from November 2009, during which he established and headed the Japan 5G Office, the organization responsible for new product development for 5G mobile networks. In addition to end-to-end product management and business development, he engaged in technology evangelism for next-generation use cases targeted at mobile network operators (MNOs) and various

industries across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. During his tenure, he was involved in 5G joint technical trials with NTT DOCOMO, including the world’s first successful real-time wireless transmission of 8K video, conducted in the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Prior to that, from 2003 he spent over six years with Vodafone Group’s New Zealand subsidiary as a Radio Network Planner.

Mr. Mulder holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E., Electrical and Electronic Engineering) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, awarded in 2003.

He is Trilingual in English, Dutch and Japanese and is well-versed in several cultures