Poletowin Pitcrew Holdings, Inc. Appoints Deborah Kirkham to its Board of Directors
Pole To Win International, Inc. (PTW), industry-leading video games and tech services outsourcer, today announced that its CEO, Ms. Deborah Kirkham, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of its parent company, Poletowin Pitcrew Holdings, Inc. (PPHD). Kirkham was named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PTW earlier this year. Poletowin Pitcrew Holdings, Inc. was formed in February 2009 as the holding company of Pole To Win Co., Ltd., Japan’s first independent testing outsourcer and PITCREW CO., LTD., the industry’s first Internet monitoring specialist company. Since then, PPHD has grown to 28 consolidated subsidiaries under its umbrella and is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Based on its corporate philosophy “Create Customer Value,” the Group takes it as its mission to integrate the “things only people can do” with “higher quality systems.”
“Deborah is a natural leader whose intelligence and determination has generated tremendous growth for PTW during the past few years and we could not be more excited to welcome her to the PPHD Board of Directors,” said Teppei Tachibana, President & CEO of PPHD and Chairman of PTW. “We believe that her strong experience and dynamic leadership style will be extremely valuable as PPHD continues to grow and expand.”
“Over the past nine years, I have actively led PTW’s tremendous success and I look forward to continuing along this path as both CEO of PTW, and now a Board Member of PPHD,” said Deborah Kirkham, CEO of PTW. “I am honored to have a seat on PPHD’s Board, and to be given the opportunity to work with this amazing team as we continue to build the future of the company and help our clients bring their stories to the world. I am especially excited because this moment marks PPHD’s first ever female appointment to the Board, as well as our first ever appointment outside of Japan, where PPHD has its origins. The trust that PPHD has in me to help bring new perspectives to our company’s deep history of Innovation and collaboration leaves me without words.”
