Takeshi Kawasaki graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science. After graduation, he joined NTT East, where he worked in system engineering, corporate planning, and new business development. In 2012, after he started to work as a management consultant in US headquartered strategy firms, where he is responsible for a wide range of CXO issues for the information technology and media industries in Japan and Southeast Asia. He is now a Partner of TMT sector in PwC Consulting.