We will work on the creation and growth of innovative startups, cooperation with existing industrial companies, “innovation and update of Japanese industry” through horizontal collaboration between industry, government, and academia, starting with rule formation for innovation, and “creating a winning edge in Japan” from a bird's-eye view x specific perspective.
Specially Appointed Associate Professor (Supply Chain x Data Science), Institute of Data Science, Tokyo International University, from April 2024.After working at Hitachi, Ltd., he worked as a consultant at Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting and Nomura Research Institute, engaging in M&A, JV establishment, platform strategy, robotics strategy, industrial DX, smart city support, and rule formation strategy support. Author of many books, including "Manufacturing Industry Platform Strategy" (Nikkei BP, published September 2021), "Japanese Platform Business" (Nikkei Publishing, co-author, published January 2020), and "Meta Industrial Revolution" (Nikkei BP, published October 2022) Web media: Business + IT "Digital Industrial Structure", Nikkei Business Daily Digital Industrial Strategy. He also writes a series of articles for Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun's "Strategy Foresight: Manufacturing DX". Appointed as a member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Study Group for Realizing Japan and ASEAN Integrated Growth through Supply Chain Resilience and Upgrading" (2022).He joined VGI in August 2022 and has been an adviser (part-time) since April 2024.
B.A. in Commerce, Keio University
M.Sc. in System Design and Management (SDM), Keio University ; he is enrolled in a PhD programme and conducts research activities
