Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Chairman and CEO, EXOR

John Elkann

John Elkann is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the holding company EXOR N.V. He is also Chairman of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. and Chairman of Ferrari N.V.

Born in New York in 1976, Mr. Elkann obtained a scientific baccalaureate from the Lycée Victor Duruy in Paris, and graduated in Engineering from Politecnico, the Engineering University of Turin. While at university, he gained work experience in various companies of the Fiat Group in the UK and Poland (manufacturing) as well as in France (sales and marketing). He started his professional career in 2001 at General Electric as a member of the Corporate Audit Staff, with assignments in Asia, the USA and Europe.

John Elkann is Chairman of Giovanni Agnelli B.V. and Chairman of GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A., one of the main European news and media groups.

He is also a board member of the reinsurance company PartnerRe Ltd.

Mr. Elkann is Chairman of the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation and a member of MoMA.

President, Microsoft

Brad Smith

Brad Smith is the president of Microsoft, where he leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals in 56 countries. He serves as the company’s chief legal officer and leads work on a wide range of issues involving the intersection between technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, ethics and artificial intelligence, human rights, immigration, philanthropy and environmental sustainability. Described by the New York Times as “a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large,” Smith has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress and other governments on key policy issues.

Smith joined Microsoft in 1993, first spending three years in Paris leading the legal and corporate affairs team in Europe. In 2002, he was named Microsoft’s general counsel and spent the following decade leading work to resolve the company’s antitrust controversies with governments around the world and companies across the tech sector. This past decade, Smith has spearheaded the company’s work to advance privacy protection for Microsoft customers and the rights of DREAMers and other immigrants, including bringing five lawsuits against the U.S. government on these issues.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Smith was an associate and then partner at the law firm of Covington and Burling, where he is still remembered as the first attorney in the long history of the firm to insist (in 1986) on having a personal computer on his desk as a condition for accepting a job offer. Smith is active in several civic organizations and in the broader technology industry. He has served on the Netflix board of directors since 2015 and chairs the board of directors of both Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program.

Smith grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended Princeton University and earned his J.D. from Columbia University Law School and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Nidec Corporation

Shigenobu Nagamori

Born in Kyoto in August, 1944
Graduates from Polytechnic University in Tokyo, Japan (major in Electrical Engineering) in March, 1967.

July 1973

Establishes Nidec Corporation at his home with three employees at age 28, and becomes Chairman of the Board and President.

October 2014

Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nidec Corporation

December 2014

Establishes the Nagamori Foundation (a public interest incorporated foundation to recognize and support the efforts of outstanding motor researchers around the world) and becomes President.

March 2018

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nagamori Gakuen Educational Foundation, the organization that operates Kyoto University of Advanced Science

June 2018

Chairman and CEO of Nidec Corporation

Major awards

March 2006

Selected by Barron’s as one of “the world’s 30 most respected CEOs”. Mr. Nagamori was one of the 10 non-U.S. awardees and the only Japanese entry in the list. Barron's described Mr. Nagamori as “one of Japan's most shareholder-oriented CEOs heading Nidec, a firm that makes brushless motors powering hard disk drives and many other products built on drive technology”.

November 2014

Selected as the “best president” by other companies’ presidents in the Nikkei Business magazine’s questionnaire for the representatives of companies listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The result of the questionnaire, held by the magazine for the first time to measure the true scale of managers’ capabilities, showed that an increasing number of managers were operating business in accordance with the “Nagamori-style”.
The magazine compared Mr. Nagamori to a “walking business textbook”.

May 2015

Nidec Corporation receives the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for its invention of ultra-thin, high-speed hard disk drive motors (Patent No. 3828452) in the 2015 National Commendation for Invention hosted by Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, and Mr. Nagamori receives the Invention Implementation Achievement Award which is given to the representatives of companies recognized for their inventions.

Selection of major literary works

“Mechatronics no tame no DC Servo Motor –The DC Servo Motor for Mechatronics” (Sogo-Denshi Publishing 1982)

“Permanent Magnet and Brushless DC Motors” (Oxford University Press 1984)

“Gijutsu Venture Shacho ga kaita taiatari zaimu senryaku –Head-on Financial Approach: Case of a Technological Startup Company’s President” (Jatec Publishing 1986)

“Kiseki no jinzai ikuseihou -How to turn an average employee into a first-rate corporate warrior” (PHP Institute 1989)

“Hito wo ugokasu hito ni nare -How to motivate people to work harder and be successful” (Mikasa Shobo 1998)

“Shin-brushless DC motor –Brushess DC Motor” [New Edition] (Sogo-Denshi Publishing 2000)

“Brushless Motors -Advanced Theory and Modern Applications” (Sogo-Denshi Publishing 2003)

“Jonetsu, netsui, shunen no keiei -Passion-, enthusiasm-, and tenacity-basedbusiness management” (PHP Institute 2005)

“Kiseki no jinzai ikuseihou -How to turn an average employee into a first-rate corporate warrior” [New Edition] (PHP Institute 2008)

CEO
Trip.com Group

Jane Jie Sun

Jane Jie Sun is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Trip.com Group Limited, a leading international travel services provider. She first joined the company as the Chief Financial Officer in 2005, later serving as the Chief Operating Officer and the Co-President, before moving into the CEO role in 2016.

In the years since Ms. Sun joined, Trip.com Group has experienced a significant increase in its market capitalization, growing from approximately $1 billion to $20 billion, and has continued to rapidly expand its global footprint. Founded in 1999 with the mission of bringing the best travel experience to travelers, the company effectively adapted to the rise of mobile Internet, growing from a small tech company into a one-stop-shop for travel services for 400 million users worldwide. The company also has a firm belief in the potential for tourism to promote understanding and exchange, and to advance peaceful development. In her capacity as CEO, Ms. Sun has led the expansion of the company’s international presence, including the launch of the company’s international brand Trip.com, the acquisition of British travel search engine Skyscanner, and an investment in India’s largest online travel provider MakeMyTrip.

As the only female CEO in China’s high-tech industry, Ms. Sun proactively advocates gender equality, and has made it her mission to empower women to achieve balance and success in both their career and family lives. For example, Trip.com Group is the first company in China to offer oocyte cryopreservation as an employee benefit. Other female friendly policies include birth gifts and commuter benefits for pregnant workers. At Trip.com Group, over half of the total workforce and 1/3 of VPs are women.

Ms. Sun is well-respected for her extensive experience in operating and managing online travel businesses, mergers and acquisitions, and financial reporting and operations, and has received numerous accolades for her work in the industry. She is an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Executive Board member, a JPMorgan Asian Advisory Board member, Vice Chair of the World Travel & Tourism Council, Co-Chair of the Development Advisory Board of University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, and a Board member and Business Leaders Group committee member of Business China established by Singapore’s Founding Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. In 2019, she was awarded an Asia Society Asia Game Changer Award and joined as a member of the Asia Society Board of Trustee. Forbes named her one of the Emergent 25 Asia’s Latest Star Businesswomen in 2018, and one of the Most Influential and Outstanding Businesswomen in China in 2017. She was also one of Fortune’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2017. During her tenure at Trip.com Group, she also won the Institutional Investor Awards for the Best CEO and the Best CFO.

Before joining Trip.com Group, Ms. Sun was head of the SEC and External Reporting Division of Applied Materials, Inc. since 1997. Prior to that, she was an audit manager at KPMG LLP in Silicon Valley, California. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a State of California Certified Public Accountant. Ms. Sun earned her Bachelor’s degree from the Business School of the University of Florida, and graduated with high distinction. She received her LLM degree from the Law School of Peking University.

President and CEO, Siemens

Joe Kaeser

Joe Kaeser is President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG, a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering. Immediately prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in August 2013, he served as Siemens’ Chief Financial Officer for seven years.

Mr. Kaeser has over 40 years of experience at Siemens, where he has held a variety of leading management positions in finance and strategy, both within and outside Germany. He began his career at Siemens in 1980 in the field of components and semiconductors, where he also worked in Malaysia and the United States. In 1999 he joined the Corporate Finance department. In 2001 he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Information and Communication Mobile Group. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Siemens’ Chief Strategy Officer.

Mr. Kaeser is a member of the supervisory boards of Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz AG and NXP Semiconductors N.V. He is Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business (APA)

Chairman and CEO, Nitori Holdings

Akio Nitori

Born in Karafuto (Sakhalin) on March 5, 1944

March 1966

Graduated from Hokkai-Gakuen University (Faculty of Economics major)

December 1967

Founded Nitori Furniture Store

March 1972

Established Nitori Furniture Wholesale Center Co., Ltd.

August 2010

Switched to a holding company structure

President and CEO of Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd.

President and CEO of Nitori Co., Ltd.

President of Home Logistics Co., Ltd.

February 2016

Representative Director, Chairman and CEO

Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd. (Current position)

Hobbies: Karaoke, scuba diving, golf, traveling

CEO, SCB Abacus

Sutapa Amornvivat

Sutapa Amornvivat, Ph.D. is founding CEO of SCB Abacus, an AI-powered data-tech startup that delivered Thailand’s first fully digital lending platform using alternative data. At Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), Sutapa previously led the Economic Intelligence Center (EIC), established the Risk Analytics Division, and headed Risk Management Committee of SCB Asset Management (Thailand’s largest asset management company). Sutapa currently sits on Public Sector Audit and Evaluation Subcommission, overseeing the development of Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC); and on Board of Directors of Asian Institute of Technology.

Sutapa formerly served on Subcommittee on Finance, Banking, Financial Institutions and Capital Markets, The National Legislative Assembly; as well as Board of Directors, Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences (TCELS).

Before SCB, Sutapa founded TMB Analytics and Risk Analytics & Research Group at TMB Bank during her secondment from ING Group. Prior to joining the banking industry, Sutapa was Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC.

Sutapa holds an AB from Harvard University and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) She was a recipient of Thailand's most prestigious King's Scholarship, and a representative of Thailand in the 23rd International Chemistry Olympiad. In 2007, Sutapa was honored Asia 21 Young Leader Fellow, by the Asia Society where she is later appointed as Global Council member.

President and CEO
Daiichi Sankyo

Sunao Manabe

Sunao Manabe has served as President and CEO of Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. since June 2019. From April 2017 to June 2019, he served as President and COO. He brings in more than 40 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry with many kinds of field.

At the beginning, Dr. Manabe joined former Sankyo Research Laboratories as a researcher in 1978, and he was based in Edison, NJ to work for Sankyo Pharma Development as Vice President from 2003 to 2005.

In 2007, when Daiichi and Sankyo were fully integrated into Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd, Dr. Manabe was assigned as Vice President of Medicinal Safety Research Laboratories; two years later, he moved to Global Project Management Department as Vice President and was responsible for the role till 2011.
Dr. Manabe served as Head of Group HR & CSR from 2011 to 2012, as Vice President of Corporate Strategy Department from 2012 to 2014.
In April 2014, Dr. Manabe took responsibility for Japan Company as President, and also Head of Business Intelligence Division; in June 2014, he was assigned as Member of the Board of Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. One year later, he became Senior Executive Officer and also in charge of Global Sales & Marketing.
In April 2016, He got promoted to Executive Vice President, responsible for General Affairs & Human Resources Division as well as Medical Affairs Division.

Dr. Manabe received DVM degree in 1977 and PhD degree in 1988 from Veterinary Science, the University of Tokyo, and Master of Science in Medical Sciences from the University of Tsukuba in 1982.
Also he was based in the Ohio State University from 1988 to 1990 as a visiting scientist of College of Veterinary Medicine.

Chairman, President and CEO, Rakuten

Hiroshi Mikitani

Hiroshi (Mickey) Mikitani is the founder, chairman and CEO of Rakuten, Inc. Founded in Japan in 1997 with the mission to contribute to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship, Rakuten has grown to become one of the world's leading internet services companies.

Rakuten has a dynamic ecosystem of more than 70 services, spanning e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications, bringing the joy of discovery to more than 1.4 billion members around the world. Rakuten also became Japan’s newest mobile network operator in 2019.

Born in Kobe, Mikitani was educated at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, began his career in investment banking, and earned his MBA at Harvard Business School. In 2012, he was awarded the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, one of the school’s highest honors.

In 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He also serves as Representative Director of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE).

In 2016, he was appointed Chairman and Director of Rakuten Medical, Inc. (formerly Aspyrian Therapeutics, Inc.), a biotechnology company developing the proprietary Illuminox™ platform as a new standard in precision-targeted anti-cancer treatment technology, and also took up the role of CEO in 2018.

President and CEO, Cartier

Cyrille Vigneron

French, born 1961, Mr Vigneron was appointed to the Board in 2016 and is a member of the Senior Executive Committee.

On 1 January 2016, he succeeded Mr Stanislas de Quercize as Chief Executive Officer of Cartier S.A. Prior to his new role, Mr Vigneron was President of LVMH Japan and worked with Richemont from 1988 to 2013: principally with Cartier, rising to become Managing Director of Cartier Japan, President of Richemont Japan, and finally, Managing Director of Cartier Europe.

He is a graduate of ESCP – Paris

Chairman, KPMG Japan

Toshiya Mori

Toshiya joined KPMG Minato Audit Corporation in 1986. Since returning from a three-year secondment to KPMG US in 1993, he has acted as audit engagement partner for major clients including a general trading company and global manufacturers, among others. In the advisory area, he has led a variety of projects related to business transformation, performance improvement, governance and M&A.

He later assumed concurrent roles as Executive Board Member of KPMG AZSA LLC and Chairman of KPMG Consulting. In October 2018, he was appointed Chairman of KPMG Japan and Chairman of Global Japanese Practice (GJP). Currently, he is a member of the KPMG Global Board and Council and the ASPAC Board.

Chairman, President and CEO, H.I.S.

Hideo Sawada

Date of Birth: February 4, 1951

After graduate from high school, went abroad to study at University of Mainz in former West Germany.

1980

Founded H.I.S. Co., Ltd., formerly International Tours Co., Ltd., and assumed the position of the President.

2010

Assumed the position of President of Huis Ten Bosch Co., Ltd.

2016

Assumed the position of CEO of H.I.S. Co., Ltd.

2017

Assumed the position of Chairman of H.I.S. Super Power Co., Ltd.

2018

Assumed the position of President of H.I.S. Hotel Holdings Co., Ltd.

Assumed the position of Director of H.I.S. Energy Holdings Co., Ltd.

2019

Assumed the position of Chairman of Huis Ten Bosch Co., Ltd.

Literary Work (in Japanese only):

“Adventure of Tourism” (DIAMOND,Inc.)

“WISH, ACT, ACHIEVE!” (Sunmark Publishing,Inc.)

“My adventure started with nothing – the history of H.I.S.-” (Nikkei Business-Jin Bunko)

“The way to get a good luck” (Shogakukan)

Other Organizations:

Chairman, Asia Leaders Association
Vice-president, The Africa Society of Japan.
Chairman, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Chairman, SAWADA FOUNDATION

CEO, FactSet

Philip Snow

Mr. Snow has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Snow held the title of President. He began his career at FactSet in 1996 and spent several years establishing and growing the Company's presence in the Asia Pacific region based in both Tokyo and Sydney. Mr. Snow then held various leadership roles within Global Content Sales & Americas Sales.
He earned a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He holds the CFA designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. Mr. Snow is passionate about diversity and inclusion in the workplace and has committed FactSet to the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion.

Fashion designer

Junko Koshino

Junko Koshino was born in the city of Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture. After graduating from Osaka Prefectural Kishiwada High School, she entered Bunka Fashion College. Her classmates Kenzo Takada (Kenzo), Mitsuhiro Matsuda (Nicole), and Isao Kaneko (Pink House), who later became famous fashion designers, were known as “the brightest 9th batch” in the same grade of the college’s design department.

In 1960, while still in school, she received the Soen Award, an important distinction for new designers. She opened the Colette boutique at Gaienmae in Tokyo, and worked on stage costumes for Group Sounds musical acts, such as Tigers, Carnabeats, Wild Ones and Golden Cups.

She participated in the Paris Fashion Week in 1978. After organizing a show in Beijing in 1985, she opened a boutique in that city in 1986, but had to close it due to the Tiananmen Square Incident in 1989. She held shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1990, as well as in Vietnam in 1994, Cuba in 1996 and Myanmar in 2009.

She has created numerous stage costumes for operas such as “The Magic Flute” and “Madame Butterfly”, and musicals such as “Pacific Overtures”. She was appointed Ambassador of VISIT JAPAN.

She is a member of the Culture and Education Commission of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and was a special envoy for the 2025 International Exposition. She was recently honored by being named a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government.

Founder and Co-CEO, Netflix

Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997. In 1991, Reed founded Pure Software, which made tools for software developers. After a 1995 IPO, and several acquisitions, Pure was acquired by Rational Software in 1997.

Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. He is currently on the board of several educational organizations including KIPP and Pahara. Reed is also a board member of The City Fund.

Reed received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1983, and an MSCS in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University in 1988. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Reed served in the Peace Corps as a high school math teacher in Swaziland.

Professor
Hitotsubashi University Business School
School of International Corporate Strategy

Ken Kusunoki

Ken Kusunoki received his BA and MS from Hitotsubashi University. He has been a faculty member at Hitotsubashi University since 1992 and joined the School of International Corporate Strategy in 2000.

Professor Kusunoki specializes in strategy. He has conducted consulting and executive seminars for many leading Japanese and global companies.

Professor Kusunoki’s research has appeared in many books including
“It Starts from Your Likes and Dislikes” (Bungei Shunjyu 2019, in Japanese) , “Likes, Dislikes, and Talent” (Toyo Keizai Shimposha 2016, in Japanese), “Anyway You Want It, That’s The Way You Need It” (Diamond-sha 2016, in Japanese), “Likes, Dislikes, and Management” (Toyo Keizai Shimposha 2014, in Japanese), “Reading Strategies” (President-sha 2013, in Japanese), “Logic in the Sense of Management” (Shincho-sha 2013, in Japanese) ,“Competitive Strategy as a Narrative Story” (Toyo Keizai Shimposha 2010, in Japanese), and “Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems and Innovation” (edited by H. Itami, K. Kusunoki, T. Numagami, and A. Takeishi, Springer, 2010), among others. In addition, Professor Kusunoki has written more than 30 articles for Organization Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Business Review (in Japanese), Organizational Science (in Japanese), and other academic journals, as well as a number of articles for business magazines.

CEO, Central Retail

Yol Phokasub

On September 16, 2016 Mr. Yol Phokasub was officially appointed as President of Central Group, and on August 1, 2018 Mr. Yol took the leadership in Central Retail Corporation Public Company Limited as Chief Executive Officer.

On August 13, 2020 Mr. Yol was elected as President of Thailand Retailers Association.

Mr. Yol joined SCB in 2007 and he was named President of the Bank in April 2015. He was a Director of the Bank and Member of the Executive Committee up until September 2016. With the experience of over 17 years at Unilever Thailand, he was Managing Director of Unifoods (Thailand), Board Member of Unilever Thailand, and a Management Member of Unilever Asia Ice Cream and Foods.

Mr. Yol has also served as Advisor to the Thailand Board of Investment (B01), Chairman of the Board of Directors of SCB Asset Management Ltd., Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of SCB Life Assurance PLC., Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of VinaSiam Bank, and a Member of the Asia/Pacific Advisory Board of MasterCard Asia/Pacific Pte. Ltd.

President, Philip Morris Japan

Shea Lih Goh

February 1993

Joined Godfrey Philips (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Affiliate of Philip Morris International).

March 2001

Marketing Manager, Godfrey Philips (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

December 2002

Manager, Trade Marketing, Philip Morris Asia Ltd (Hong Kong)

June 2003

Director, Marketing, Philip Morris (CHINA) Management Co. Ltd.

December 2004

Director, Sales & Marketing, Philip Morris (CHINA) Management Co. Ltd.

April 2006

General Manager, Philip Morris Taiwan S.A.

January 2008

Director, Marketing, PT HM SAMPOERNA TBK. (Indonesia) (Affiliate of Philip Morris International)

May 2013

Managing Director, Malaysia & Singapore, Philip Morris (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

October 2016

Vice President Reduced-Risk Products Asia, Philip Morris Asia Ltd (Hong Kong)

January 2018

President, Philip Morris Japan Limited

Education:
Master of Business Administration (Business Administration)
University of Hull, United Kingdom Bachelor of Business (Major in Marketing)
Monash University, Australia

CEO, IBM

Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna is Chief Executive Officer of IBM. As a business leader and technologist, he has led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain. He has also played a significant role in the development of innovative IBM products and solutions based on these emerging technologies.

Over his 30-year career at IBM, Arvind led a series of bold transformations and delivered proven business results. He most recently drove the successful $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat – the largest software acquisition – that has defined the hybrid cloud market. Together, IBM and Red Hat give clients the unique ability to build mission-critical applications once and run them anywhere.

Arvind previously was Senior Vice President of Cloud and Cognitive Software, where he pioneered the company’s hybrid cloud business, transformed IBM’s entire software and services portfolio and offerings for cloud, and grew the business. He also headed IBM Research, where he drove innovation in core and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, blockchain, cloud platform services, data-driven solutions, and nanotechnology. In 2016, Wired magazine selected Arvind as “one of 25 geniuses who are creating the future of business” for his foundational work on blockchain.

As general manager of IBM Systems and Technology Group’s development and manufacturing organization, Arvind led the strategy for data-centric systems and the widespread industry adoption of open and collaborative technology standards. He also grew the IBM Information Management business by 50 percent.

At IBM, Arvind has been an outspoken advocate for learning at every stage of one’s career. He has made scientific contributions in a number of technical fields, including wireless networking, security, systems, and databases. In addition, he founded IBM’s security software business and helped create the world’s first commercial wireless system.

Arvind has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the recipient of distinguished alumni awards from both institutions.

Chairman, ExaWizards Inc.

Makoto Haruta

LL.B. from Kyoto University. Former Managing Director and Chairman at DeNA Co., Ltd, one of the largest mobile and e-commerce companies in Japan. Led it during IPO and M&A of multiple companies including Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars, a baseball team. Founded ExaIntelligence Inc. (now known as Exa Wizards Inc.) in February 2016. Current position since November 2018. Outside Director of TBS Holdings, Inc.

President and CEO, Money Forward Inc.

Yosuke Tsuji

After graduating from the Faculty of Agriculture (BS), Kyoto University, Yosuke Tsuji obtained his MBA at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He worked at Sony Corporation and Monex Securities before establishing Money Forward, Inc., in 2012. He currently serves as an executive officer of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE) ,exective committee member of the Silicon Valley Japan Platform (SVJP) and nominated member of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (KEIZAI DOYUKAI).

Planning Director / Consultant, Dentsu

Mihoko Nishii

Born in 1986. After graduating from the Faculty of Commerce of Keio University, entered Dentsu in 2009. As a researcher at Dentsu Institute, researched market trends and consumer trends such as the luxury brand market and wellness market. As a founding member of the Insight Lab "Dentsu Youth Research Department" and "Gal Lab", she mainly researches consumer sentiment and trend analysis for young people in their teens and 20s. Currently belongs to Dentsu Business Design Square. Published 2011 "Pagal Consumption-Study on Gal Mind that 70% of Girls have under cover-" and 2014 "Why do you guys start talking about the same thing when you are hunting for a job?" She received Red Dot Design Award, One show Silver, Kids Design Award, etc. She is also engaged in external activities such as a lecturer at the Cabinet Office Youth Issues Study Group, a food education review committee member of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, an advisory general manager of NPO ETIC Marketing Creative, and a brand strategy advisor for the voice platform "Voicy".