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Since 1994, he has been the Director of the Center for Technology Management Research at Stanford University and the Asia-U.S. Center for Technology Management. His research and teaching focus on innovation systems, the impact of new technologies on industrial value chains, and open innovation management. He also serves on the program committee of the Japanese government's World Premier Research Center Program. He also serves as an advisor to startups, accelerators, venture capitalists, and non-profit organizations in Silicon Valley, Canada, Japan, and Korea. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the U.S.-Japan Innovation Awards and served on the Board of Trustees of Tohoku University from 2004-2010, as the first non-Japanese member of the management of a Japanese national university. He holds a master's degree in linguistics from Stanford University and a Ph.

Date of Birth: January 11, 1941 in Yokohama

Education:
March, 1963　Graduated from the Commercial Science Department ofWaseda University

Business Career:
March 1963 Entered Nichicon Capacitor Ltd.(present Nichicon Corporation)
May 1967 Dispatched to Chicago as a frontier of the Company
February 1978 President of Nichicon (America) Corporation
June 1983 Assigned as Director of Nichicon Corporation
December 1983 Director, International Operations Division
February 1990 Director, President of Nichicon (Europe) Ltd.
July 1995 Director, Factory Manager of Ohno Factory, and Overseas Sales Manager
June 1997 Managing Director of Nichicon Corporation
June 1998 President & CEO of Nichicon Corporation
June 2007 Chairman & CEO of Nichicon Corporation

* Resident in USA for 17 years
* April 2007 Received Medal with Blue Ribbon

*Industry Association Officer Experienced
Kyoto Employers' Association, Chairman
Kyoto Institute of invention and Innovation, Chairman
Kyoto Industrial Association, Vice-Chairman
Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, Director

Master’s degree (Physics) and Ph.D. in Engineering, from the Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo
1985 Joined Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
2007 Associate Professor, Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, the University of Tokyo
2011 Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
2012 Specially Invited Professor, Keio University
2015 Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.
In 2018, established APB Corporation, a startup that develops, manufactures, and sells the next-generation lithium-ion battery, “All Polymer Battery.”

General Partner at WASEDA University Ventures (WUV), CTO, Co-founder, Board director of Blue Laser Fusion Inc., and Advisor, Office of the President, WASEDA University (Innovation Strategy). Also appointed as external board director of Nanofiber Quantum Technologies, Power Diamond Systems, and Quanmatic as investment portfolio. Former to these positions, joined ACSL, Inc., a drone-related startup, in 2016, and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers in 2018 as President and CEO (retired in March 2022 after serving as CEO and Chairman). Joined McKinsey & Company in 2010. Research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2008 to 2010. Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 2008. Researcher at Rohm from 2004-2007. Ph.D from Kyoto University

Keiji Numata earned his Ph.D. (2007) with a thesis centered on enzymatic degradation and synthesis with hydrolases of biopolymers, especially poly(hydroxyalkanoate), under the supervision of Prof. Yoshiharu Doi, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis includes works on enzymatic polymerization to synthesize branched biopolymers, which has been performed in Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) under the supervisions of Prof. Ann-Christine Albertsson and Prof. Anna Finne-Wistrand. He worked as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad at Tufts University (USA) where he studied biosynthesis of silk-based polymers via bacterial pathways as well as silk-based gene carriers in the laboratory of Stern Family Professor in Engineering David L. Kaplan. He moved to RIKEN as a Senior Scientist in 2010 to start up a laboratory to investigate biosynthesis and material design of structural proteins and poly(amino acid). He has been a Team Leader (PI) of the lab since 2012 and Research Director for JST-ERATO Numata Organelle Reaction Cluster Project (2016-2023), Research Director for JST-COI-NEXT, Research Director for MEXT Program: Data Creation and Utilization-Type Material Research and Development Project (2022-). In 2020, he moved to Department of Material Chemistry, Kyoto University, as a full professor. He received Nagase Prize from the frontier salon foundation (2022), the 2020 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award (American Chemical Society, 2020), SPSJ Asahi Kasei Award (2019), Award for Encouragement of Research, Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Japan (2019), Bio-Environmental Polymer Society Outstanding Young Scientist Award, USA (2018), The Young Scientists’ Prize for Minister of MEXT, Japan (2018), and so on. He was appointed as an associate editor of Polymer Journal (2018-2020) and is currently an associate editor of ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering.

Born in Tokyo in 1983, Kazuhide Sekiyama serves as Director and Representative Executive Officer of Spiber Inc., which he co-founded in 2007 while studying bioinformatics at Keio University. As part of its mission to help build a sustainable society, Spiber is engaged in the development and industrialization of Brewed Protein™ materials, structural protein materials produced from plant-derived feedstocks through a microbial fermentation process.

An independent researcher from British culture to the history of suits, dandyism, fashion history, and luxury. The author of more than 20 books, including "The Complete History of Apparel: Reading by Innovators," "Royal Style: The History of British Royal Family Fashion," "Mode, Eros and Capital," and co-author of "100 Years of the British Royal Family and Queen Elizabeth" and "New Luxury: 10 Lectures on the Economy Created by Culture. A regular contributor to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Kitanippon Shimbun, JBpress autograph, and other publications. Mater degree of Arts and Sciences from the Graduate School of at the University of Tokyo. Had been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK, a specially-appointed professor at Meiji University, and a visiting professor at Showa Women's University. Was a member of the Fashion Future Study Group of the Fashion Policy Office of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, an expert lecturer at the Kyoto Creative Assemblage, a value-creation human resource development center of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and supervised the exhibition and catalog of the Mary Quant exhibition at the Bunkamura The Museum.

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Ministry of the Environment (1996-present)
- Major experience: Chemical Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Climate Change (International rule making, Setting of the Long-term strategy, the reduction target and action plan of Japan), etc.
- Current position: since July 2022

1964.4 Kyoto University Graduate School of Engineering Semiconductor Laboratory Assistant
1971.12 Kyoto University Graduate School of Engineering Semiconductor Laboratory Associate Professor
1976.9 North　Carolina State University Visiting Associate Professor
1983.2 Kyoto University Graduate School of Engineering Semiconductor Laboratory Professor
2004.4 Director of Japan Science and Technology Innovation Plaza, Kyoto, Director (8 years)
2012.4 Japan Science and Technology Industry-Academia Collaboration Coordinator
2018.12 Kyoto University of Advanced Science Naagamori Actuator Laboratory Visiting Professor
2022.4 Kyoto University of Advanced Science Specially-Appointed Professor

Received the Ph. D degree from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 2005. His Ph. D. thesis is titled “Ion Implantation and Embedded Epitaxial Growth for 4H-SiC Power Electronic Devices.” In 2006, he joined Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Saitama, Japan, where he was engaged in research and development of SiC power devices, Si power devices, and inverter units for electric vehicles. He was seconded to Keihin Corporation for 5 years from 2013 to launch mass production of power control units. Currently he conducts fuel cell system development in Honda R&D Co., Ltd.

Kobayashi joined Nomura Research Institute in 2008. He engaged in technology-based new business support and R&D strategy support for major manufacturing clients. After leaving the company, he was involved in planning and managing startup-pitch events in Singapore, and he joined Linkers corporation in 2016. Kobayashi created the Linkers Open Innovation Research Institute, established a technology research business, and organized many seminars on Japanese-style open innovation. Currently Kobayashi started his own company as a think tank for cutting-edge technology, analyzing global startups and technology trends.

Akihiko Kondo received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in Chemical Engineering (1988). He was appointed as Professor of Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation at Kobe University in 2016 and Vice President of Kobe University in 2021.

His other appointments include Deputy Director of the RIKEN CSRS, JST GteX Program Officer, and CRDS Specially Appointed Fellow.

His areas of expertise include synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, applied microbiology, biorefinery, biofoundry, and so on.
He has founded several university-launched ventures and currently serves on the board member of five companies.

After receiving a master's degree in engineering from Kobe University, Kiyokazu Iwata was involved in drug delivery system research and formulation development at a pharmaceutical company. While there, he was sent out to a startup accelerator to promote collaboration between deep tech startups in life science field and large companies. He then joined the launch of a genome editing startup from Kobe University, where he built a business base focusing on intellectual property strategy. Current position from June 2023. Patent attorney.

Hiroaki Kuwajima is a Haas Executive Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, specializing in global corporate innovation. Starting his career at Mitsubishi Corporation as a commodity trader, he mainly pursued a business professional career, including working as a strategy consultant, and managed two Japanese companies, including as executive vice president of Linkers Corporation based in Tokyo. Currently based in Silicon Valley, he is researching global corporate innovation and business model transformation and concurrently advising top management at Japanese companies in the automotive, food, and retail sectors. Kuwajima holds a BA in economics (University of Tokyo), master of business administration (Harvard Business School), and master in public administration (Harvard Kennedy School). He also contributes articles to the Nikkei (Keizai Kyoshitsu), Toyo Keizai Online, and Nikkei Technology Online.

Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering in 1976 and completed the doctoral program at the same university in 1981, earning a Doctor of Engineering degree.
Held positions such as the Director General of the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo.
From April 2009, served as Executive Vice President and the Board Member at the University of Tokyo until March 2015. Concurrently, held the position of Director of the Nidec Center for Industrial Science until March 2019.
Appointed as Vice President of KUAS in April 2018 and has been in the current position since April 2019. During this period, founded the first manufacturing venture initiated by a Japanese university in 1998.

After joining Toyota Tsusho Corporation, I was engaged in supporting sales activities of TOYOTA distributors within the African region and initiating new businesses. Following my assignment to an overseas subsidiary, I joined Tryfunds, where I was responsible for formulating the management strategy and business development of customers. In 2021, I joined TIER IV and was assigned to the overall project leader for a national project. From 2023, I have been leading the Autonomous Driving Vehicle Sales Dept as the business owner

After graduating from Sophia University in 1984, I joined Mazda Motor Corporation and was engaged in research of exhaust gas purification technology and engine control technology for diesel engines. After that, I was engaged in the development of vehicle control and data collection systems for racing cars, and in 1991. It contributed to the first overall victory of Japanese car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. I changed jobs to Tokyo R&D in 2000, where I was involved in racing activities and the development of racing parts. In 2009, I transferred to the subsidiary Pues, where I continue to work on the development of electric cars and the parts.

At Nippon Battery, he helped commercialize the first rectangular Ni-Cd battery in the world and contributed to the realization of MicroTAC, Motorola’s compact cell phone; the Walkman, Sony’s portable audio player and other products. He subsequently developed and manufactured Li-AI thermal batteries for national defense purposes and thin lithium-ion batteries for portable applications and, otherwise, played a leading role in various battery-research projects.

He established Quallion LLC in Los Angeles, USA, in 1999. For his work on the development and manufacturing of highly reliable lithium-ion batteries for use in the healthcare, space, and military fields, he won the International Battery Materials Association Technology Award, Frost Sullivan Award, and Boeing Technology Supplier Award. The same company’s implantable batteries have been implanted in tens of thousands of patients as pacemakers. The company’s batteries have also been incorporated into many military satellites operated by the United States. Upon witnessing the devastation of the Great East-Japan Earthquake in 2011, he returned home to Japan and established CONNEXX SYSTEMS to harness technology and knowledge pertaining to energy-storage batteries as cultivated in special fields for grid and mobility applications. He remains head of CONNEXX SYSTEMS to this day.

Launched a regional revitalization project and engaged in project finance for renewable energy at a financial company.
Main achievements include the launch of Hamamatsu Energy Co.,Ltd and many other regional Power Producer and Supplier.
In 2021, joined NEC Networks & System Integration Co., Ltd., where engaged in a wide range of business development, focusing on carbon neutral businesses under the themes of regional revitalization and community development.

Kentaro Kaneko obtained Ph.D degrees in Engineering from Kyoto University in 2013. He was engaged in research of gallium oxide (Ga2O3) in his early carrier. He founded a semiconductor device venture when he was a Ph.D student. He worked in Kyoto university as an assistant professor and lecturer until June, 2022. From July,2022 he has been a full-professor in Ritsumeikan University.
He began a research of germanium dioxide (GeO2) for power device application in 2021 and the next year, he founded a venture from Ritsumeikan university named as PATENTIX Co. for practical application of germanium dioxide power devices.

After completing a master's degree at the University of Tokyo in 1988, he joined OSAKA GAS Co., Ltd. He has been engaged in technological development and management of materials, elements, and system technologies for sensors, fuel cells, and catalysts in R&D division and product development division. Currently, he is mainly promoting the development of SOFC/SOEC and innovative methanation technologies and is the R&D director of the Green Innovation Fund project "SOEC Methanation Technology Innovation Project". Doctor of Science, University of Tokyo.

Rio focuses on investing in innovative companies in Cyber Security, Mobile, Storage, and Retail Tech sectors that could be successful on a global scale. His portfolio companies include Cylance, SOC Prime, Bright Security, Mitiga, Remotium, Fyde, Jask, SafeBreach, AppDome, vArmour,and Cloudnatix. Prior to joining DNX Ventures, Rio spent six years at Globespan Capital Partners where he had put his resource on both investment and business development of Japan/US portfolio companies. Palo Alto Networks(NYSE) is one of the U.S. companies he has successfully helped launch in the Japanese market.

Joined the company in 1997 and had been in charge of sales, marketing, and pricing in the lubricants division for about 24 years. In April 2021, transferred to Emerging Business Development Dept, which was established in 2019 to accelerate future business development. And have been working to achieve ENEOS' 2040 Long-Term Vision by CVC management and direct investment in startups as a current position from 2022.

With my strong leadership skills and knowledge of BPR and supply chain management systems, I have led many manufacturing clients to successful project completion. I am now actively engaged in proposal activities, solution planning and development, and seminar presentations on carbon neutrality measures as well as strengthening corporate resilience, which will be required in the manufacturing industry in the future.

Rio focuses on investing in innovative companies in Cyber Security, Mobile, Storage, and Retail Tech sectors that could be successful on a global scale. His portfolio companies include Cylance, SOC Prime, Bright Security, Mitiga, Remotium, Fyde, Jask, SafeBreach, AppDome, vArmour,and Cloudnatix. Prior to joining DNX Ventures, Rio spent six years at Globespan Capital Partners where he had put his resource on both investment and business development of Japan/US portfolio companies. Palo Alto Networks(NYSE) is one of the U.S. companies he has successfully helped launch in the Japanese market.

Researched Lithium-ion Battery at R&D department and at a joint venture in Canada as an engineer of Sony Corporation. Led a project to create mid-term strategy of Energy Storage System Division. Provided consulting support to plan and execute venture business strategies and open innovation strategies in cutting-edge area such as AI, carbon neutrality, mobility and smart city for

He conducted and supervised basic, applied and commercialization R&D at NTT Laboratories, and then moved to ATR for corporate management and planning as well as business developments at ATR and ATR Group. He is also leading the establishment of a global innovation ecosystem and various startup support platforms in Keihanna Science City. In February 2021, he established XBorder Innovations (XBI) to further strengthen startup support activities.