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Jun Sawada has served as the President and CEO of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp since June 2018 . He originally joined Japan ’ s largest telecom services provider ( and third-largest telco in the world by revenue ) in 1978 , rising to the executive board as Senior Vice President in 2008 . Japanese CEOs famously take home relatively small salaries , and Sawada ’ s compensation package is smaller that the annual pay for the company ’ s top scientists . The exact nature of his compensation is unknown , however . NOVEMBER 2020