Akiko Ide joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation in April 1977. In June 2003, she became General Manager of Customer Services at NTT DOCOMO. From September 2004 to June 2005, she served as General Manager responsible for information security at NTT DOCOMO.. From April 2006, she became General Manager responsible for social. environment promotion at NTT DOCOMO. In June 2006, she became an Executive Director of NTT DOCOMO and serviced as General Manager of NTT DOCOMO’s Corporate Citizenship Department from 2006 to 2008. In July 2008, she concurrently served as an NTT DOCOMO Executive Director and General Manager of NTT DOCOMO’s Chugoku regional office.. In June 2012, she concurrently served as Executive Director and Director of Information Security at NTT DOCOMO. In May 2013, she was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Radishbo-ya Co., Ltd., in which roles she served through May 2014. She concurrently served as Executive Director and Senior Manager in charge of Commerce and Business Promotion at NTT DOCOMO from June 2013 to June 2014, following which she was elected to her current position as an Audit & Supervisory Board Member at NTT in June 2014.