Graduating Kyoto University, BA in Law 1983, started career at Mitsui Co., Ltd. Visited 34 countries on business including training in the U.S. Motivated to learn corporate management, gained MBA at Harvard Business School in 1996. Returning to Mitsui, involved in strategic investment of Foods Group of Mitsui；M&A and subsidiaries control. In 2000, joined GE Capital, involved in M&A and in 2006 became Board Member & Deputy President at GE Fleet Services as head of sales & marketing. 2007-Nov. 2019, worked for Xerox Corporation as Executive Director in Japan, in parallel, acting as Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Fuji Xerox, involved in overall management of the company. Leveraging on experience in both Japanese and global companies, gaining capabilities of global strategy and management and leadership. Strongly interested in growing next generation of whole-person leaders, involved in founding Shizenkan University in 2017~18. August 2018-May 2023, acted as Vice President & a member of the board of trustees and professor at Shizenkan University. June 2023 started as Senior General Manager at Harmonic Drive Systems Inc. and thereafter became Specially Appointed Professor and a Member of the Board of Trustees at Shizenkan University.