Engaged in entrepreneurship education and mentoring for three years since September, 2019 as Director of EDGE-NEXT and GTIE in Office of Startup and Entrepreneurship Education, Division of University Corporate Relations, The University of Tokyo.
Also serves as a venture capitalist for six years in CSV Venture Fund which NEC Capital Solution Limited established and has invested in 30+ startups in Japan, US, UK, and Taiwan.

Former experience:
NEC Corporation (April, 1983 – August, 2019):
Was engaged in many areas such as

– VC investment, Startup investment (mainly for US and Israel), CVC
1996-2001: working at Silicon Valley for CVC
2018-2019: working at CTO fund as CVC
– New business development, Open innovation with startups
– Spinout, M&A
– Research strategy/commercialization
2008-2011: working at Princeton, NJ, USA for technology transfer from lab
– Corporate planning, Marketing strategy
– EC business operation
– Software development (machine translation system)
– System integration

Education:
Bachelor (1981) & Master (1983), Information Science, Kyoto University