Sep 23–26, 2019

Moto Tohda
Vice President, Information Systems, Tokyo Century (USA)

Moto Tohda is the vice president of information systems at Tokyo Century (USA), where he oversees the entire IT for the US operations of Tokyo Century Corporation. Moto wears many hats, and he always strives to balance business objectives with IT initiatives. His past IT initiatives include security, disaster recovery, and many implementations of the ERP-related systems. His newest endeavor is to bring data back to users through data visualization and user-driven predictive analysis models.

Sessions

4:00pm–4:30pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Location: 1A 08

Democratization of data science: Using machine learning to build credit risk models

Case studies

Secondary topics: Financial Services

Moto Tohda (Tokyo Century (USA))

Tokyo Century was ready for a change. Credit risk decisions were taking too long and the home office was taking notice. The company needed a full stack data solution to increase the speed of loan authorizations, and it needed it quickly. Moto Tohda explains how Tokyo Century put data at the center of its credit risk decision making and removed institutional knowledge from the process. Read more.