Makoto Sarata(Ph.D.) was engaged as a broker in financial derivatives trading in Tokyo and New York.
Returning from New York at the end of the last century, he has been involved in supporting entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises at an organization affiliated with the city of Kyoto, as well as in planning and managing educational programs for universities and large companies on the commercialization of science and technology (business model innovation).
He also holds a degree from Kyoto Institute of Technology as a working graduate student, and teaches Business Model Innovation Theory and Japanese Corporate Culture in the Master’s Program of Doshisha University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering.
He is also one of the Japan Business Model Competition founders.