Our Leadership

Akihiro Harda
Akihiro Harada
Chief Executive Officer

Harada san took up the position of Chief Executive Officer of GGS in April 2016. Having joined GLORY Ltd. in 1985, Harada san brings an enormous amount of industry knowledge and experience to the company, with a focus to drive the international business forward, through further unification, achieving long-term growth plans and maintaining support of valued customers around the world.

Since joining GLORY Ltd. Harada san has worked in a number of areas across the business and has been key in establishing a new factory in Saitama and logistics center operations in Japan. Between 1998 and 2005 he went from Head of Parts Manufacturing Department of Himeji Factory to Head of Production Engineering and also served as a Director of a number of manufacturing subsidiaries. Responsible for new products, new projects and product cost down programs at this time, Harada san developed a medium-term strategic plan for all GLORY factories.

More recently, he was the President of GLORY’s factory in the Philippines from 2006 and 2008, and took up the role of Head of Management Planning Department before moving to the UK in 2012 to lead the integration of GLORY and Talaris. Harada san has been Chairman of GGS since April 2015 and a GLORY Ltd. board member since June 2015.

Michael Williams
Michael Williams
Chief Financial Officer

CFO since May 2014, Michael Williams joined Glory Global Solutions from Hitachi, where he was most recently European Finance Director. Michael’s extensive Finance experience has included consistent delivery of growth and profitability in established global businesses as well as that of large-scale projects such as mergers, acquisitions and divestments. ‘Big Four’ accountancy firm qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Michael has led technical accounting conversion projects, process efficiency drives and IT implementations. He has also been instrumental in developing and bringing to market start-up solution businesses. He has experience across a range of sectors including retail, rail, manufacturing, leasing and motor.

 Vincent Nakache
Vincent Nakache
President, EMEA

Vincent was appointed President EMEA in April 2016 and is responsible for running all the company’s operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa including direct and indirect operations in over 100 countries with over 1000 staff. Vincent is also an Executive Officer of GLORY Ltd.

After graduating from the Institut Supérieur de Commerce de Paris, where he obtained a Masters in Management, Vincent started his career at Xerox as a Sales Executive. He was the top Regional Sales Representative for three years before promotion to management. He left Xerox in 1990 to undertake a consultancy position for Learning International. Vincent joined De La Rue in late 1991, where he spent 17 years gaining extensive company and industry experience across a wide range of roles including Sales and Marketing Director, progressing to Managing Director of De La Rue France in April 2000. In 2008, Vincent was part of the team who led the management buy-out to form Talaris and became President, EU Region.

Chris Reagan
Chris Reagan
President, Americas

Chris is responsible for all operations in the United States, Canada and Latin America. As President, Chris is responsible for Glory Global Solutions’ overall business strategy, from Sales and Marketing programs to Field Service operations and Business Development initiatives.

Chris has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from North Texas State University and brings 30 years of industry experience to his current position. Prior to joining Glory, he was one of six individuals that engineered a management led buy-out (with the support of The Carlyle Group) of the Talaris business unit from De La Rue PLC. He joined De la Rue Cash Systems in March 2005 as the Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, where his leadership ushered in a double digit compound annual growth rate. Prior to that, Chris worked for Deluxe Corporation, where he was responsible for $1.2 billion in revenue and a Sales, Marketing and Support organization of more than 800 direct employees and more than 600 indirect representatives.

Tetsuya Bogaki
Tetsuya Bogaki
Chief Development Officer & President, China

Bogaki san was appointed Chief Development Officer in April 2018 and is responsible for all Glory Global Solutions’ International Engineering activities including Quality Assurance, Software Development, Support, and Software Professional Services. In addition to his CDO role, Bogaki san leads the company’s business in China.

Bogaki san started his career as an IT Engineer at GLORY Ltd. in 1986, after graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University. In his first role, Bogaki san reformed the GLORY factory MRP system and went on to be appointed Marketing Manager for GLORY’s domestic gaming business in 1994. In that role he generated a new CRM solution and helped GLORY become one of the leading companies in the Japanese gaming market. Bogaki san was promoted to lead the GLORY Group System Development Department in 2009, where he directed system development projects for the financial, retail, gaming markets and key overseas customers. He was invited to join Glory Global Solutions in 2014 and in 2016 was promoted to the position of EVP Global Commercial Sales.

Martin Rose

Martin Rose
General Counsel, Chief Information Security Officer & Company Secretary

Martin is an international lawyer managing the Legal, Intellectual Property, Data Protection & Security and Insurance & Risk Teams within Glory Global Solutions.

Martin has an extensive background in international acquisitions and in negotiating significant product sales and service orders with large multi-national and blue-chip clients, private and state-owned banks as well as multi-national retailers and suppliers.

He has worked at several leading international law firms and held a number of senior legal positions within global private equity portfolio companies, prior to joining the organisation in early 2008. Passionate and energetic, Martin brings a wealth of international experience to legal, compliance and governance matters within the company.

Ben Thorpe - Glory
Ben Thorpe
Managing Director, Asia Pacific

Ben was appointed President of APAC in 2016 and is responsible for steering the rapidly growing GLORY business across more than 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Ben has a degree from Cambridge University and has held several leadership positions in Glory. Prior to taking on his current role, Ben was Director of Global Marketing and Strategy leading and building a team of global marketers to drive the integrated communications strategy. With more than 25 years of experience from living and working in Asia, he was part of the core team that integrated the Glory and Talaris businesses, forming what is known as Glory Global Solutions today.

Tomoko_Fujita
Tomoko Fujita
Director - Corporate Development and Business Planning

Tomoko is a member of the GGS Board and Executive Committee and is responsible for guiding Business Planning, HR and Internal Audit of International Business.  Tomoko is tasked to provide high-value strategic support to the CEO of International Business including M&A, and to ensure we maintain focus on developing our people and expanding our business with strong controls.

Tomoko joined GGS in May 2012 just after Glory announced the acquisition of Talaris and was fully involved in integration of the two businesses as a member of Project Management Office closely working with the management teams of both.  Prior to joining GGS, Tomoko worked in financial industry in Japan and the UK including for Citigroup and Nikko Securities and gained extensive experience in corporate and commercial areas.

Toshi

Toshimitsu Yoshinari 
Chief Solutions Officer


Toshi was appointed to the position of Chief Solutions Officer in April 2021 and is responsible for Product Management, Strategic Marketing, Innovation and Digital Services.

Toshi joined Glory in 1998 as the Product Manager for Desktop Products and Financial Institutions Self-Service. He subsequently moved to Glory Europe after being appointed Product and Marketing Manager for the EU region. Following the acquisition of Talaris Toshi was a senior member of the PMO team responsible for the successful integration of the two companies. Since 2013 Toshi has led Glory’s product management and marketing teams for the International Business.

Over the course of his career Toshi has lived in numerous countries around the world including the USA, Germany and the UK. He is now based in Paris.

Toshi continues to be a board member of Glory’s Italian subsidiary, Sitrade.