TAKETO SUGAWARA – Japan

Director, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Education
The University of Tokyo

Taketo Sugawara is the Director of Incubation and Entrepreneurship Education at the University of Tokyo. In this role, he teaches entrepreneurship, runs multiple startup support programs, and manages the university’s on-campus incubators, including Entrepreneur Plaza, Entrepreneur Lab, and Entrepreneur Hub. Since 2009, he has educated over 5,000 students and incubated more than 100 university startups. Notably, seven of these supported startups have successfully gone public, and ten have been successfully acquired by public companies. Before his current position, Taketo worked as a consultant for IBM. He holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Tokyo.