Katsuyasu Toyama is COO of JPNAP, the biggest internet exchange in Japan, operated by INTERNET MULTIFEED CO. He was involved with the establishment of the company in 1997, and there he designed JPNAP network and services in 2000. After leading a research project on IPv6 and security at NTT Labs., he has been working as Director of JPNAP since 2007, and also worked at NTT Communications from 2012 to 2015 to be responsible for all the Internet business on eyeball networks in Japan and ip transit service all over the world.
He is also involved with internet community activities, as a chairperson of Asia Pacific Internet Exchange Association (APIX), a leader of Peering Asia (an open and neutral peering forum in the APAC region), and a board member of Global Peering Forum (GPF).