Former leader Yutaka Sasaki will transition to senior executive VP of NTT NTT DATA has named Kazuhiko Nakayama as its new president and CEO, effective today. Yutaka Sasaki, former president and CEO of the organisation, will assume the role of senior executive VP of NTT on 18 June. An NTT vet, Nakayama joined the company in 1989 and has spent the past 37 years in various leadership positions across the group, including roles at NTT DOCOMO, NTT EAST and NTT Communications.