Tareq Amin

Amin joined Rakuten Group in 2018 as the first chief technology officer of Rakuten Mobile and lead the design and roll-out in Japan of the world’s first fully virtualized cloud-native mobile network. In 2021, Amin was appointed as chief executive officer of Rakuten Symphony, a Rakuten Group company launched in August 2021 with his vision to empower the global adoption of cloud-native open RAN mobile network infrastructure and services. Under Amin’s leadership, Rakuten Symphony brings the innovation behind Rakuten’s telecom operator products, services and solutions together under a single global banner for customers worldwide.

In 2022, he was appointed as chief executive officer of Rakuten Mobile to ignite the next stage of growth in Japan and drive synergies between the global business and Rakuten Mobile. With a career in the mobile network industry spanning almost two decades, prior to joining Rakuten in 2018, Amin was a key contributor to the transformation of the mobile industry in India as Senior Vice President of Technology Development and Automation for Reliance Jio. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Carrier Solutions for Huawei and as Senior Director of National Planning & Performance at T-Mobile.

Amin holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Portland State University in Oregon.