Monte Cassim attended the University of Sri Lanka, Colombo, graduating from the Faculty of Natural Sciences in 1970. After working at the State Engineering Corporation of Ceylon, he came to Japan in 1972 as a Ministry of Education-sponsored post-graduate scholar. After learning Japanese Language at Osaka University of Foreign Studies he entered the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering and graduated with a master’s degree in engineering and went on to complete course credits of the doctoral programme.

From 1974, he was a researcher at the Japan Center for Area Development (JCADR), and from 1980 entered Mitsui Construction Corporation’s Design Division. From 1985 he worked for the United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD), where he was Coordinator of the Industrial Development Unit and the Urban Development and Housing Unit, as well as the Strategic Assistance Programmes for Latin America and Indonesia, before becoming Professor (Health, Environment and Life Science) at Ritsumeikan University from April 1994 until March 2018.

For nine years, from 2004-2013, he was Vice-Chancellor of Ritsumeikan Trust and concurrently President of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) for six of them (2004-2010). Since January 2013, he has been Special Advisor to the Chancellor of Ritsumeikan Trust, Assistant Trustee, and from March 2018, Senior Advisor to Ritsumeikan’s Board of Trustees. In August 2018, he was appointed as the first President of Shizenkan University and Professor (Science & Technology Innovation) at its Graduate School of Leadership and Innovation, in Tokyo. He is also concurrently Specially Invited Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Medicine, where he heads the Biophotonics and Spectroscopy Laboratory.

He is on the Board of Management of several leading national universities in Japan, Vice-Chair of the Board of Councilors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), and on the Board of Councilors of Japan’s National Institute for Awarding Degrees and Quality Evaluation (NIAD-QE).

He was Founder President of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University’s Confucius Institute and is a founder member (in 1993) and current Chairman of the international NGO, Tools for Self-Reliance, Japan, which sends tools and artisans to enable impoverished communities to become self-reliant. He is also Chair of the General Purpose Associations, the Japan Student Support Network (JSSN) and the Sri Lanka-Japan Collaborative Platform (SL-JCP). He is also on the Board of Councilors of the International House of Japan.

From May 2015 to November 2019 he was Senior Advisor (Science & Technology; Joint Comprehensive Partnership with Japan) to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

Junko Edahiro obtained a Master's degree in Educational Psychology from The University of Tokyo. Still active today as an environmental journalist, she is committed to communication and networking through lecturing, publishing, consulting and translating on the environment, all with the aim of causing behavioral change among people and building effective systems for a sustainable society. To comprehensively study the relationship among happiness, economy, and society and work on these themes, she holds workshops on happiness and sustainability.
She organizes a website “e's Future Co-Creation Forum” to co-create new value from finding relationships among factors within a problem. In 2011, she founded the Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy and Society (ISHES) to rethink on the relationship among happiness, economy, and society and explore better systems and indicators. She contributes to co-creation of happy and resilient future through human connections and dialogue.
She creates opportunities and places to build consensus among stakeholders utilizing the Systems Thinking or Scenario Planning model. She acts as a facilitator for companies and local governments. And as an advisor, she is also involved in regional revitalization to depict a more desirable future with projects to rebuild the local economy.
The books she has translated include An Inconvenient Truth, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis and An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore;
Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update;
Beyond 'Eco' - How to Make a Happy Future;
From Pursuit of GDP Growth to Creation of Happiness based on Life Beyond Growth;
Thinking in Systems;
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organizationand;
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse.

Hide Enomoto is the founder of CTI Japan, one of the biggest coaching training institution in Japan.He is also the founder of two non-profits, Transition Japan and Seven Generations, both of which aims to create a sustainable future.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Law from Hitotsubashi University amd a master's degree in Organizational Development and Transformation from California Institute of Integral Studies in the US.
During his stay in the US, he came across CTI's Co-Active Coaching and became the first Japanese person to be certified as a professional coach.

1948　Born in Kanagawa.
1972 Graduated from Dept of Sociology, Faculty of Letters,
The University of Tokyo.
1977 Completed Doctoral Candidate Course, Graduate School of Sociology,
　The University of Tokyo.
1989　Associate Professor (Sociology), Faculty of Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology.
1995 Professor(Sociology), Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. 1996 Professor(Sociology), Dept. of Value and Decision Science, Graduate School
of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
2013 Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Mitani entered the Kawasaki Steel Corporation (now the JFE Steel Corporation) after graduating from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokyo.
He also has earned master’s degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University.
He then joined the Boston Consulting Group. After taking posts as the Regional President for North Asia at GE Aviation Systems, the President of GE Healthcare Japan and CEO of Novartis Pharma K.K., he established Office Mitani. He took the position as Chairman of Plantec Consulting Inc. in 2016.
He joined the faculty at Shizenkan University in 2019. Mitani is also a part-time lecturer at GSDM and the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. Assumed Senior advisor of Boston Consulting Group(BCG) in 2019.

Catalyst, Learning Activist and Future Vision Navigator

Under the organization “21 Foundation", Patrick and team collaborate to connect the present with the future for a wide range of people, from infants to senior executives of companies, to reach their highest level of collective intelligence.

In 1995, he co-founded Tokyo International School, a 21st Century model school in many areas of education and learning.

In 2008, Patrick co-founded TEDxTokyo, the first TEDx, TEDxYouth & TEDxTeachers events outside of the USA. TEDx focuses on bringing thinkers, doers and innovators from Japan and beyond to share ideas worth spreading.

In 2012, he created “21:21”, a documentary film aligning 21st century learning with 21st century learners with a focus on the role of parents as primary educators.

In 2014, Patrick wrote “TED Power" to inspire people to find their ideas worth spreading and take them further than imagined.

In 2015, Patrick wrote “21st Century Skills to Nurture a Children’s Future”

In 2017, Patrick and team hosted the SingularityU Japan Summit which is the first Summit event held in Japan.

In 2018, 21 Foundation created a membership program together with Singularity University with 10 large Japanese companies all in different industries. The focus of this program is to align companies with the fast-paced exponential technological change through meaningful projects to transform their future.

In 2019, he published the book “Strategies for keeping Japan #1”. Patrick interviewed over 150 people to research how they see Japan in 2030. Japan is #1 in many areas beyond economics and the latest technology and can be a role model for the rest of the world in some areas.

Dr. Tomo Noda is the founder of ISL (Institute for Strategic Leadership), a Tokyo- based educational institution dedicated to the development of next-generation leaders with the willpower, character and creativity necessary to catalyze social and business innovation in Japan.
He is an expert in organizational strategy and transformational leadership, and was a faculty member of the London Business School (1996-1997), INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France (1997-2000), INSEAD ASIA in Singapore (2001-2003), and SIMI (Scandinavian International Management Institute) (1996-2005) where he taught strategic and international management to MBAs and excecutives.
He is also an active member of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) and has led a project team for promoting NPOs/NGOs and social entrepreneurship in 2011 as well as a nation-wide task team for restoring Tohoku region attacked by 3.11 earthquake and tsunami disaster between 2012 and 2017. He is the organizer for Social Innovator's Koshien Program, a network for promoting social alliances betwen business, civic and public sectors.
He is originally from Kyoto, Japan.
Dr. Noda holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Tokyo, a Master’s Degree in Science in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Doctorate in Business Administration (Business Policy) from Harvard University.

Graduated from Tohoku University with a doctoral degree. Later worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at the School of Business Administration of Senshu University, assistant professor and professor at the Faculty of Economics of Tohoku University and as professor at the Graduate School of Economics and Management of Tohoku University.
Has been responsible for teaching “Management Policy” and “Market Strategy” and other courses at Tohoku University for more than 30 years. Supervised around 300 students in seminars and graduating students. Has further been engaged in supporting local government economic policies and administrative reforms, has been an active member of non-profit organizations and has held the office of the Representative Director of the Sendai-Miyagi NPO Center and President of the Sanaburi Foundation.
Former Member of the Management Committee and the Personal Information Protection Commission of Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK).

1995 - 1998 Worked as director of a Tokyo based company organizing management seminars and international symposia for owners of small and medium sized enterprises. Invited international speakers such as Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, Lester Thurow, Peter Drucker and Lester Brown to Japan.
1999 - 2000 Worked as the first foreign anchor of a major news program in Japan at Tokyo MX TV (18 months).
2000 -2011 Co-founder and CEO of E-Square Inc., one of Japan’s first sustainability/CSR consultancies.
2015 - present Co-founder of NELIS – Next Leaders’ Initiative for Sustainability.
NELIS aims to connect, inspire and empower young practitioners in the field of sustainability and social innovation worldwide.
2019 - present Professor, Shizenkan University.

Graduating Kyoto University, BA in Law 1983, started career at Mitsui Co., Ltd, involved in trading of edible alcohol, molasses, dextrose etc. Visited 34 countries on business including training in the U.S. Fully exposed to “real frontline” of business, experiencing tough business like export dextrose to Iran.
Interested in corporate management, gained MBA at Harvard Business School in 1996.
Returning to Mitsui, involved in strategic investment of Foods Group of Mitsui, involved in 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, 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.

After graduating from the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, continued philosophical activities centered on existential philosophy, along with literary and ideological critique, starting from the literary critique of Korean writers in Japan.
Based on phenomenology, Plato, and Nietzsche, developed "Philosophy of Desire" as the fundamental theory of philosophy.
After working as a professor at Meiji Gakuin University, became a professor at the Faculty of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University and is now a professor of Shizenkan University.
Second-generation Korean in Japan.

Started his business career in Fuji Xerox as a research engineer in R&D department, recognized issues regarding “technology and management” and moved to A.T. Kearney. After three years, established an incubator and supported five technology ventures for developing business plans and funding from VCs. Returned to A.T. Kearney and engaged more than 500 projects as a principal for about 16 years regarding various management issues mainly for high-tech and automotive industries.
Since 2018, became a part-time consultant for A.T. Kearney, and an advisor for Nippon Human Resources, Co., Ltd., funded by the Japanese government, which accelerates local economies in Japan.
Personally, established NPO KIDS for handicapped children in 1992, providing various opportunities for them to attend social activities, and continues to lead the organization as a managing director.

Yuichi Yatsuhashi graduated from Tokyo University Faculty of Economy. Right after graduation he entered Boston Consulting Group and became the youngest partner in the Tokyo office at the age of 34. Later, he turned to the private equity industry. He became a Partner in MKS Partners in 2007.
In 2011 he became Senior Advisor of ACA . He invested a lot of his time in supporting venture companies such as venture investments as well as listed stock investments.
Since 2015, he has been working as a specially-appointed professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Leader School.

Katsuhiko is an Associate Professor and Vice President at Shizenkan University.
Katsuhiko’s research focuses on organizational behavior and human resource management in contemporary organizations that face globalization and digitalization, and he has published research articles in prominent academic journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of World Business.
Along with research and teaching, he consults with multinational corporations and serves as an external advisor to two startup companies. Before joining Shizenkan, he served as an Assistant Professor at Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and worked as Consulting Director and Chief Researcher at Recruit in Japan.
Katsuhiko’s vision is to become a bridge between academic research and business practice communities in the area of human resource and organization management.

- A.T. Kearney: Core automotive and adjacent industries member with management consulting focus on strategy, digital, marketing and M&A
- Toyota Motor Corporation: Product planning/strategy (regional core models) and process innovation lead
- Toyota Motor Europe: New business development (low cost car and commercial vehicles strategy)
- Vlerick Leuven Gent Management school: Masters in Marketing

Paul has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant across Asia and is equally at home working with blue-chip Japanese and Asian companies and Western multinationals. He has closely worked with clients in a variety of industries including energy, industrial goods, and chemicals. His recent experience includes development and implementation of globalization strategy, marketing, organizational transformation, supply chain management, and innovation.
Before joining BCG, Paul was employed as a vice president and managing director at Booz and a field engineer at Royal Dutch Shell. He was a contributor to two major BCG reports on the chemical industry.

Keio Senior High School, Keio University, INSEAD (MBA), Grandes Écoles (with Honors), Doctorate from University of Tsukuba (Business Administration), Professor at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School, Visiting Professor at Keio University.
Served as managing director of Tokyo Bank and Barclays Global Investors, the world's largest asset management company, and established the Institution for a Global Society, a place for cultivating global leaders.

Head Priest of Zenshoan Temple
BA in Law, Gakushuin Univerisity.
Became 7th Head Priest of Zenshoan Temple in 2002.
Various business and political leaders including current
prime minister, Shinzo Abe come to visit Head Priest,
Shoshu Hirai to learn Zen Meditation.

Born in Tokyo in 1962.
Graduated from International Christian University, College of Liberal Arts, Humanities Division.
In 1995, Hirata won the 39th Kishida Kunio Drama Award with "Tokyo Note (Tokyo Notes)." In 1998, he received the 5th Yomiuri Theater Award Outstanding Director Award, for his production of "Tsuki no Misaki (The Cape of the Moon)," a play written by Masataka Matsuda. Hirata wrote and directed "Ueno Dobutsuen Sai-sai-sai Shugeki (Attacking Ueno Zoo for the Fourth Time)" in 2002 and won the 9th Yomiuri Theater Award for Outstanding Production.
In 2002, he won AICT (Association Internationale des Critiques des Théâtre) Critique Award for his book "Geijutu Rikkokuron (Arts as the Basis of a Nation)" published from Shueisha. In 2003, he won the Grand Prix of the 2nd Asahi Performing Arts Awards with "Sono Kawa wo Koete, Gogatsu (Across the River in May)," which was an event for the Year of Japan-ROK National Exchange in 2002. In 2006, he won the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award.
In 2011, France’s Ministry of Culture honored Hirata with the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
At present, Hirata is research professor of the COI Research Promotion Office at the Tokyo University of the Arts, visiting professor of the Osaka University Center for the Study of Co* Design, visiting professor and Special Advisor to the president at Shikoku Gakuin University and Kyoto Bunkyo University, and General Manager of the Fujimi Culture Hall KIRARI FUJIMI. He is also board member of the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities and the Japanese Society for Theatre Research and advisor for cultural politics for Toyooka City.

After graduating from U. of Tokyo, he joined Mitsubishi Corporation and worked as a B2B marketer for 10 years, during which 5 years were spent in China as a PM for infrastructure projects.
He earned an MBA from Stanford University.
Joined Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and worked as a management consultant for almost 20 years in Tokyo, Shanghai and Nagoya, mainly in such sectors as industrial goods, energy, environment, healthcare, IT and trading and in such areas as business strategy, new business development, reorganization/restructuring, M&A, HRM and social impact. He also served executive positions at BCG such as Sr. Partner & MD, Shanghai Office Head, Administrator of Japan System, Rep. Director of Mid-West Japan, and People Team Chair of Asia-Pac Region.
With a consistent interest in developing people, he started part-time teaching in his late thirties, switched to a full-time position in his fifties and is now in his ninth year as a professor. He teaches strategy, marketing, leadership, diagnosis/transformation of organizations at National Shinshu University in Nagano and Waseda Business School in Tokyo. A total of about 100 graduate students have learnt at his seminars so far. Besides teaching, he has served concurrently as advisor for over 10 institutions in a variety of types e.g. global conglomerates, local SMEs, ventures, NGOs, and municipal enterprises.

Kromack is a strategic consultancy specializing in Growth Strategy, and Service Design/UX Design, helping both startups and multinational corporations. Former Strategist / Consultant at Hakuhodo. And former Chief Strategy Officer at The RealReal—the Silicon Valley-based luxury consignment e-commerce. Lecturer at Singularity University Japan Program (Design Thinking and Prototyping).

Hironori has been leading marketing, brand consulting, and innovation consulting project for major companies in Japan. He currently leads new business development for Hakuhodo. He has focused on new product / service development, business design, UX strategy, brand strategy, marketing strategy. He received Bachelor’s Degree from International Christian University, Master Degree from Keio University, Master Degree from Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and PhD in Management Science from Kyoto University.

After graduation from Ritsumeikan University, College of Letters Department of Philosophy, Tatsuya Kataoka joined Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.

He became Branch Manager and later served as Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager, Products Division and Director of Multi-Package Distribution Co., Ltd.

He concurrently served as Executive Director of Tsutaya Online Co., Ltd. Mobile Business Division, and in addition to package distribution, was in charge of the Digital Content Distribution Division.

He became a Director of TC Entertainment, and, from 2009, he concurrently served as a Director of 247Music.

In 2012, he joined the non-profit organization ISL. As a joint program director for the Transformational Leadership Program (TLP) and the Strategic Leadership Program (SLP), he is engaged in executive education of managers of his generation. At the same time, Tatsuya Kataoka is General Manager of the Tohoku Future Creation Initiative, that aims at revitalizing the Tohoku region and creating Japan’s future, and carries out human development, community development and industrial development at the forefront of regional revitalization. Currently, he is appointed as a reconstruction adviser for Kesennuma City and Ofunato City.

For over 20 years, he has been recognized as one of the　top economists and strategists in Japan. He served as the
Managing Director for Equity Research at JP Morgan in　Tokyo, the Chief Economist for Merrill Lynch Japan, and the Chief Economist for JP Morgan.
For his highly regarded analysis and insights, he has been appointed as a member of numerous government committees. He is one of the few non-Japanese member of Keizai Doyukai.
He has written three books in Japanese, “Japan’s Economy – The Envy of the World” (2017), “The End of Heisei Deflation“ (2001), and “Towards a New Japanese Golden Age” (1999).
When he came to Japan in 1986, he worked for three years as an aide to a Member of Parliament.
He earned an M.A. in International Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and worked as a researcher at both Tokyo University and Kyoto University.

Larry is a very experienced executive coach who specializes in working with leaders to develop to their full potential, enhancing leadership skills and effectiveness, stretching into their new roles, and upgrading organizational structures. Since 1999, He has given over 500 executive coaching to major corporations in Japan.
With his unique coaching model based on psychological/behavioral studies, Larry has helped many executives enhancing emotional intelligence, integrating more efficient interpersonal skills into their leadership repertoire, and achieving their individual and business goals.
Larry has a BA in business administration from Kyoto University, and there he also studied Clinical Psychology from 1988 to 1994. He is a CEO of Zom , a special advisor for SNA Coaching Association, an examiner for career counseling certificate program at Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development, a special professor at Dokkyo University teaching Psychology, and an associate member of　International Society for Research on Emotions. As a mental coach of Nippondensan-Sankyo speed skate team since 2003, Larry has participated to the Winter Olympic game at Turin in 2006,at Vancouver in 2010, Sochi in 2014. Two skaters got medals at Vancouver.

Dr. Miyadai was born in 1959 in Miyagi prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University.
He got his Doctorate of Sociology from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Sociology and was an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Science from 1987. In 1990, he was a full-time lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and in 1993 became an Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He worked as an Associate Professor in the Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Urban Liberal Arts from 2005 and has been in his current position since 2007.
While specializing in social system theory, he also became a leading expert in the research of subcultures, such as telekura (テレクラ), kogal (コギャル) and compensated dating (援助交際). He is also active on television and radio, becoming a popular figure on media.

Joined HR Service section of Recruit. Mainly responsible for the development of employment and job-change services, also worked as Chief Editor of Rikunabi. Became Executive Officer in Charge of Jinzai Sogo Service in 2004. Became Director of Recruit (HR, General Affairs, PR) in 2006. Responsible for the reconstruction of Recruit Agent after the “Lehman Shock” and became the first Representative Director of Recruit Career after the unification of Recruit’s HR section and Recruit Agent in 2012.
Started studies at ISL in 2004 and also took part in ISL’s “Koshien Leadership Project”. Founded a new organization in Shimane based on ISL’s motto “LEAD THE SOCIETY” after retirement in 2016, dealing with yet unsolved problems like the concentration of talented young people in urban large enterprises and the teaching of essential skills needed in society.
Engaged in HR development and HR circulation projects of young, motivated people in the region based on a reform of the management system of regional High Schools.

1981 Graduated from the Faculty of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University. Joins the Nomura Research Institute (NRI).
1987 Took a master’s degree from Hitotsubashi University.
1992 Appointed Manager, NRI Management Consulting Department.
2000 Appointed Executive Manager, NRI Management Consulting Department.
April 2001 Appointed to the post of Assistant Professor (later promoted to Professor), the School of Management and Information Sciences, Tama University.
April 2008 Appointed to the post of Professor, the Graduate School of Global Business (MBA Program), Meiji University, and Special Research Advisor, Recruit Works Research, Recruit Co., Ltd. (now Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.).
Minoru Noda specializes in organizational theory, strategic management theory, and meeting management.
His focus is on individual behaviors and decision making in a wide range of organizations, from small groups to large corporations.

Yumiko Noda is President of Veolia Japan K.K., an organization of over 9,000 employees, which provides an array of solutions related to water, energy and waste recovery. She was previously Partner of PwC Japan leading infrastructure and PPP practice. She is recognized as one of the pioneers who introduced the PFI/PPP concept to Japan.
Between 2007 and 2009 she served as the Deputy Mayor of Yokohama City.
She holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Tokyo University.

Mr. Osamu Noro is a specialist in career development and leadership training. His 2 main programs include the career-building "Self-Empowerment Training Program", and "Co-Empowerment Leadership Program" aimed for leadership development.
He took part in product research and development as an engineer for Nitto Boseki (1985-1989). After continuing his profession as a management consultant for Arthur D. Little Japan(1989-1996), and an instructor for leadership development at Franklin Covey Japan(1996-2002), he began his career as a freelance trainer in 2002.
He is originally from Mie, Japan. Mr. Noro holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in applied chemistry from Keio University in 1985.

As a management consultant, Daisuke owns ample experience in leading the projects in the area of strategy development, end-to-end transformation including front-line performance initiative execution, corporate transactions such as M&A, divestiture and JV formation, business integration, organizational transformation and leadership development. He covers broad industries such as manufacturing, material and energy, consumer products, institutional investors. He has experience working at Goldman Sachs and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). He holds MA from the University of Tokyo.

Miyuki is a pioneer executive coach in Japan and founded SyncVoice Inc., in 1998 to specialize in coaching, communication and leadership development. She has coached top executives to express their vision and mission and inspire team members to action. She also trained more than 1,500 coaches to be professional as a first faculty for Coaches Training Institute in Japan. She has experience working at Burson-Marsteller and Motorola and holds a Master’s Degree in Communication Studies in Northern Illinois University.

Katsuhiro has professional career experience at Development Bank of Japan and a management consulting firm. He teaches at Waseda University Business School as a visiting professor and University of Tokyo as a visiting lecturer.

Born in Kobe Hyogo. Joined A.T. Kearney arter graduating from the business department of Kobe University. Completed MAP of INSEAD.
Experienced more than 100 projects on strategy, organization, process reform, operation transformation for more than 20 clients in consumer goods, retail, media, service, real estate, financial, auto, phamaceutical industry.

Yohei Takabe joined Boston Consulting Group in 2005. He leads the firm’s Insurance practice in Asia Pacific, and Technology Advantage practice in Japan. He is also a core member of the Financial Institutions and Technology, Media & Telecommunications practices. He leads BCG’s work in digital technology and advanced analytics in Japan. He has acquired deep experience in digital-and IT-related topics across a range of industries including insurance and financial services. Prior to joining BCG, Yohei was a consultant with IBM Business Consulting Services (formerly PriceWaterhouseCoopers).
He is a co-author of Insurance Company Management in the Digital Revolution Era (Kinyu Zaisei Jijyo), BCG Digital Transformation (Nikkei Publishing), and Management Issues for 2019 Decoded by BCG (Nikkei Publishing).

Dr. Yutaka Takahashi is expert in system dynamics methodology and practical applications. He earned his PhD at Gakushuin University, located in Tokyo, Japan. Recently, he is active as a Vice President of Japan Chapter of System Dynamics Society. Dr. Takahashi is teaching also at Graduate School of Frontier Science, University of Tokyo.

Daisuke joined CVC in 2016. He is a member of the CVC Operations team in Asia and is based in Tokyo. Prior to joining CVC, he spent over fourteen years at The Carlyle Group as a Director, leading management and leveraged Buy-Out transactions. Prior to that, he worked for the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund. Daisuke holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and an LL.B. from the University of Tokyo.

After working at Nomura Securities in Japan and overseas (London), he established the ed-tech startup Asahi Net International, Inc. in New York in 2011. As President and CEO, he planned and successfully promoted the globalization of its cloud-based LMS, Learning Management System, for higher education institutions.
In 2016, he founded zero to one, Inc., another ed-tech startup focusing on developing and providing education contents on cutting-edge technologies including AI, and helps Japanese companies training their employees.
He also serves as Board of AI Business Promotion Consortium, industry association promoting AI business in Japan.
He received Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Harvard University in 2006.

I started my career in the investment banking division at Nomura Securities, in groups such as the financial information department and the business development department. While at Nomura, I worked in the Private Equity market in Asia (including Japan) and Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) market in the United States. After leaving Nomura in 1997, I became independent as an entrepreneur and started venture capital funds and hedge funds. Since 2005 I have taken office as President & CEO of WERU Investment (VC authorized by Waseda University) and have supported the growth of numerous startups globally. For instance, one of our recent track records is being the lead investor in LeoLabs, Inc. which was born out of technology resources at SRI (Stanford Research Institute). After obtaining a doctoral degree in 2009 in the field of “Intangibles (invisible economic resources)” to foster corporate growth, which later became the corner stone of integrated reporting, I have been teaching entrepreneurship as a visiting professor at Waseda Business School (WBS) and Waseda Global Education Center (GEC). In addition, since 2012, I have taken on the role of representative project promoter for the Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology (START) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (currently JST) to commercialize technology resources of universities and research institutes.
*BOD of The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs.
*Member of the external advisory committee of RIKEN (national research institute)

Professor Tamura received his Bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Law at Keio University. He received the masters degree at Harvard Law School as a Fulbright scholar. He has been a Professor at Keio University since 1987. He is the recipient of the Yokota award, which is the young scholar award in economic law. He was engaged in global negotiation such as US-Japan trade negotiation, and WTO negotiation. He is an International Academic Advisor to Harvard International Negotiation program, and the member to the committee of "Negotiation and Conflict Resolution" at the World Economic Forum. He is currently working on research and development of "Leadership Basics" and "Negotiation" in Japan.

Kazuhiko Toyama has started his career with BCG and later became one of the founding members of Corporate Directions, Inc. (CDI), a Tokyo-based independent management consulting firm, eventually becoming its CEO. In 2003, he was appointed to lead Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ), a government-backed restructuring fund, as COO. In 2007, when IRCJ was dissolved, he founded Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (IGPI), which he currently runs as its CEO. He graduated from Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and holds an MBA from Stanford University. He has passed the Japanese National Bar Examination.
Chair, Public Policy Council, KEIZAI DOYUKAI (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), Expert member of Council on Economic Fiscal Policy (MOF), Member of The Tax Commission (CAO), Member of the Council of Experts Concerning the Corporate Governance Code (FSA), Outside director of Panasonic Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc..

Masataka UO is the founder and CEO of Japan Fundraising Association, a nationwide network that promotes philanthropic giving and social impact investment in Japan, and the founder and CEO of Fundrex.Co.Ltd, a leading consulting company which provides strategic development, impact management, and system consulting for more than 150 nonprofits and social business. He is also Trustee, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment.

He is a hub of creating ecosystems in Japan for social innovation and impact. He is leading to create impact investment markets, impact measurement initiatives, philanthropic giving, fundraising, family philanthropy, legacy giving.

Aside from serving at the Economic Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, he also worked for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Started as an engineer at Japan Highway Public Corporation (changed into Nexco) in 1988. Then, moved to McKinsey & Company in 1996 with strong interest in globalization of Japanese manufacturing companies/industry and promoted to a partner. After 13 years with McKinsey, went independent as a business consultant and worked with Carlyle Group, Japan. Then, joined Accenture as a managing director of management consulting in 2011 with special interest in degitalization/IoT. In 2017, started a venture of HR tech area to explore every possible potential of business people at notable corporations.
University of Tokyo, Civil Engineering, BA and MS / Stanford University MBA

Born in 1954.

Graduated from Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Obtained an MBA degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business

1978 Joined Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Currently FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation)
1990 Joined McKinsey & Company
1995 Principal (Partner) of McKinsey & Company
2003 Director (Senior Partner) of McKinsey & Company
2014 Senior Managing Executive Officer, Corporate Planning of AEON Co.,Ltd.
2016 Director of LIXIL Group Corporation, Corporate Advisor of AEON Co.,Ltd.
2017 Special Advisor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government
2018 Director, Representative Executive Officer, COO of LIXIL Group Corporation

Lectured in Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, The University of Tokyo Executive Management Program, and Hiroshima Business and Management School

Yuji Machida joined McKinsey & Company in 1991, after graduating from the Faculty of Law at Kyoto University. He served as a Leader of IT, High-tech and Internet Related Practices in company offices in Osaka, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai. He worked on various projects related to organizational change, acquisitions, and urban development. At the same time, he was in charge of recruitment and training. Yuji Machida is a Roger Klein Award winner. After becoming an Associate Partner, he went independent, working with Rimnet, Unison Capital and others.
In September 2013, he started his own company as a representative of BODAI, Inc. Ltd. developing the “art thinking” services related to corporate revitalization and organizational change consulting, as well as new business/IoT/AI business consulting.
In 2017-18, he served as Tokyo Metropolitan Advisor and Special Counselor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Reform Headquarters.
He also serves as “Arts Economics” Advisor at Innovation Management Science Research Division, Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration Headquarters, Kyoto University.
He is active as an artist based in Tokyo. In 1999, he held a solo exhibition in New York. He has lived in Osaka, Tokyo, New York, Shanghai and Seoul.