The 21st Nikkei Global Management Forum

The 21st Nikkei Global Management Forum

Managing beyond the upheaval

Date：October 28 (Mon) - 29 (Tue), 2019
Venue：Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

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  • 2019.10.30

    The 21st Nikkei Global Management Forum ended with a success on October 29 (Tue), 2019.
    We deeply thank all of your participation.
    The outline of the forum and overview of the lectures are posted on The Nikkei (a Japanese daily), The Nikkei Business Daily and Nikkei Asian Review (an English news site) in the October 28 (Mon) through 30 (Wed).
    Next year's 22nd Nikkei Global Management Forum (NGMF2020) is scheduled to be held in Tokyo on November 10 (Tue) -11 (Wed), 2020.

  • 2019.10.29

    The articles on this forum are being distributed now.（https://asia.nikkei.com/）

  • 2019.10.28

    Nikkei Asian Review will broadcast selected sessions on the YouTube channel.

  • 2019.10.10

    We regret to announce you that Mr. Anthony Tan, Group CEO and Co-Founder, Grab will not be able to participate in this year's forum.
    Ms. Tan Hooi Ling, Co-Founder, Grab will participate on his behalf.

  • 2019.10.4

    Mr. Lawrence Ho, Chairman and CEO, Melco Resorts & Entertainment has confirmed his participation as a speaker.

  • 2019.9.30

    Early registration (discount rate) has ended at noon on September 30, and regular registration is now open. (Registration deadline: October 18.)

  • 2019.9.24

    We regret to announce you that Mr. Alfonso Larraín Santa María, chairman, Viña Concha y Toro will not be able to participate in this year's forum.
    Mr. Cristián López, Corporate Export Director, Viña Concha y Toro will participate on his behalf.

  • 2019.9.6

    This website has opened.

Main Theme

Managing beyond the upheaval

The world is witnessing a new period of upheaval dominated by the global turmoil caused by the US-China trade war and the unrest in Europe, including the Brexit issue. Amid this growing sense of global economic slowdown, the environment surrounding corporate management is becoming increasingly volatile. The digital revolution, employing artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, is radically transforming conventional thinking and practice, such as ownership of assets and payments with currencies, creating an imminent need to reconsider business models of every single industry.

Yet the current maelstrom overwhelming societies and individuals is also creating opportunities in multiple areas. The rapid evolution of AI allows people to focus on higher value-added work; the shrinking population is driving individuals to seek extended healthy life and to keep refining personal knowledge and abilities. In this respect, anything can be potentially transformed into new business opportunities for companies.

The speakers at the Nikkei Global Management Forum are all business leaders who have taken advantage of upheavals. This year, we set up a wider variety of panel discussions and global leaders will be invited to openly discuss and exchange their opinions. We will be thereby offering participants a rare opportunity to witness and experience serendipities that would otherwise never happen by bringing together top executives from diverse industries and fields.

We sincerely look forward to your participation.

Past event (NGMF2018)

The contents of the 20th Nikkei Global Management Forum (Speaker's title as of the event)

Forum Information

Date October 28 (Mon) - 29 (Tue), 2019
Venue Imperial Hotel, Tokyo Access >
Organizers Nikkei Inc.   IMD   Harvard Business School
Corporate Sponsors Kirin Holdings   KPMG Japan
Sponsors Asahi Kasei   AGC   Anytime Fitness
Special Supporter Financial Times
Media Supporter Nikkei CNBC Japan
Supporter Brunswick Group
Registration Fee 93,500 yen (tax is included）

*Lunch will be served on both days
Registration Deadline *Registration has been closed.

Corporate Sponsors

Kirin Holdings KPMG

Sponsors

Asahi kasei AGC

　　Anytime Fitness 　　

Benefits of attending the Forum

The Nikkei Global Management Forum brings together some of the world’s most successful business executives to discuss management philosophies, corporate strategies, and the latest global trends in management.

Immerse yourself in two days of inspiring presentations and discussions by global business leaders

It is an opportunity to listen directly to talks by the world’s most accomplished business executives. In this two-day event, you will find yourself deeply engrossed in listening to stimulating speeches by over 10 world-renowned business leaders from home and abroad about their views on work, management philosophies, and leadership.
“How can we make innovation happen in this rapidly changing business landscape and shape a great future with our own hands?” Be inspired by each speaker’s talk on the power of innovation.

Corporate strategy case studies that reflect the latest management trends

What strategy is right for your business in light of the latest technology trends such as AI, IoT, blockchain, and autonomous driving, or the trend of anti-globalization and protectionism? You will learn the latest trends in management through case studies illustrating successful corporate strategies implemented by the speakers.

Experienced journalists from Nikkei and FT as well as professors from HBS and IMD will draw out what the business executives actually did and thought in real-life situations

Senior business correspondents and professors at prestigious business schools will moderate the presentations to draw out the most intriguing and valuable stories from well-known business leaders, ranging from their lesser-known anecdotes and philosophy of life to management know-how and real business strategies. Don’t miss the remarks and questions from these skilled moderators, or ‘professional listeners,’ which make the presentations livelier.

An opportunity to develop yourself or to train your successors and future leaders

The Nikkei Global Management Forum can serve as an opportunity to improve your own management or leadership skills as well as a training session for your successors and executive candidates. For corporate training purposes, an information leaflet about the 20th Nikkei Global Management Forum is available for download from the link below.

Who participates?

１. Senior management (top management and board members)
２. Middle management aspiring to leadership positions (directors, general managers, and section chiefs)
３. All businesspersons who want to know the latest global management trends

Very popular among business executives

Very popular among business executives

Note: Breakdown of the respondents who answered that they are working for a company
Source: Participant questionnaire on the 20th Nikkei Global Management Forum

High levels of participant satisfaction

82%

I want to participate next year.

(I really want to participate next year. : 42%)

64%

I want to recommend it to the people around me.

(I really want to recommend it to the people around me. : 29%)

Source: Participant questionnaire on the 20th Nikkei Global Management Forum

Speakers

*English and Japanese simultaneous interpretation will be available during the forum.
*Please be advised that speakers may be subject to change.
*Honorifics and titles omitted, in no particular order.
As of October 18, 2019

Moderators

Program

Monday, October 28

9:30　Opening ／ 17:40　Closing (tentative)

9:30 - 9:33

Opening
9:35 - 10:05

Nutrition for a better Life

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Chairman Emeritus, Nestlé Moderator Makiko Utsuda Deputy Editor, Video News Department, Nikkei Inc.
The next paradigm shift in global business
10:05 - 11:15
Alan Parker Chairman and Founder, Brunswick Group Kuniharu Nakamura Chairman, Sumitomo Corporation Hiroshi Komiyama Chairman, Mitsubishi Research Institute Moderator Lionel Barber Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times
11:15 - 11:25 Break
In quest for new roles in the market and society
11:25 - 11:55

The paradigm of the Indo Pacific: Business Imperatives

Arun M. Kumar Chairman and CEO, KPMG India
11:55 - 13:00 Buffet Lunch
13:00 - 13:30

An individual era and a corporate era

Tadashi Yanai Chairman, President and CEO, Fast Retailing Moderator Naofumi Nakamura Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer, Nikkei Inc.
13:30 - 13:40 Break
13:40 - 14:10

Conquering new territories in the luxury market

Nicolas Baretzki CEO, Montblanc International Moderator Katsuhiko Hara Nikkei Asian Review Politics & Economy News Editor, Nikkei Inc.
Health and food business to make longevity a blessing
14:10 - 14:40

Committing to unprecedented change

Yoshinori Isozaki President and CEO, Kirin Holdings Moderator Yo Tanaka Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.
14:40 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:00

Food, exercise, and healthcare devices for an enriched society

Sarah L. Casanova President and CEO, McDonald’s Holdings Company (Japan) Dave Mortensen President and Co-Founder, Anytime Fitness Senri Tanida President, TANITA Moderator Kaori Takahashi Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.
16:00 - 16:10 Break
16:10 - 16:40

Management that unleashes your passion

Tomoko Namba Founder and Executive Chairman, DeNA Moderator Tsukasa Obayashi Senior Editorial Writer, Nikkei Inc.
16:40 - 17:10

The evolution of Cup Noodles in the era of sustainability

Koki Ando President and CEO, NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS Moderator Sawako Oiwa Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer, Nikkei Inc.
17:10 - 17:40

We’re all the same

Dave Mortensen President and Co-Founder, Anytime Fitness Moderator Kaori Takahashi Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.

Tuesday, October 29

9:00　Opening ／ 17:30　Closing (tentative)

The impact of geopolitics on management
9:00 - 9:30

Leading innovation as a global and value-based company founded in Japan

Christophe Weber President and CEO, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Moderator Dominique Turpin Dean of External Relations, IMD
9:30 - 10:00

How to survive upheavals-- the Meiji Restoration shows the future of Japan

Jared Diamond Evolutionary biologist, the author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” Moderator Sonoko Watanabe Editor-in-Chief of Nikkei’s Osaka Editorial Headquarters and Aide to the Publisher of Nikkei Asian Review, Nikkei Inc.
10:00 - 10:30

The future of finance in an evolving landscape

Jes Staley Group CEO, Barclays Moderator Lionel Barber Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times
10:30 - 10:40 Break
The role of technology in reshaping our society
10:40 - 11:25

From the work about work to the work that matters: insights from the thought leaders in Silicon Valley

Dustin Moskovitz CEO and Co-Founder, Asana Gen Isayama General Partner and CEO, WiL
11:25 - 11:55

Purpose-driven decision making to drive durability

Ned Segal CFO, Twitter Moderator Hiroyuki Watanabe Managing Director, Digital Business and General Manager of Nikkei Innovation Lab, Nikkei Inc.
11:55 - 12:25

How technology changes society

Tan Hooi Ling Co-Founder, Grab Moderator Akito Tanaka Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.
12:25 - 13:40 Buffet Lunch
13:40 - 14:10

The age of digital empowerment

Gilberto Caldart President - International Markets, Mastercard Moderator Joji Thomas Philip Founder and Editor-in-Chief, DEALSTREETASIA
The true foundations of global corporate success
14:10 - 14:40

Sustainability at Henkel – Living up to a core value

Hans Van Bylen CEO, Henkel Moderator Katsuhiko Hara Nikkei Asian Review Politics & Economy News Editor, Nikkei Inc.
14:40 - 15:10

Leading continuous innovations: Asahi Kasei's challenge

Hideki Kobori President, Asahi Kasei Moderator Hirotaka Takeuchi Professor, Harvard Business School
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15

How to dominate developed markets and move forward to Asia
--Challenge from South America

Lando Simonetti Chairman and Founder, La Martina Cristián López Corporate Export Director, Viña Concha y Toro Moderator Atsushi Nakayama Commentator, Nikkei Inc.
Prospering with foreigners and creating new market space
16:15 - 17:30
Lawrence Ho Chairman and CEO, Melco Resorts & Entertainment Koji Karaike Chairman, Kyushu Railway Company Timothy Hansing CEO, Red Planet Hotels Moderator Yuri Momoi Deputy Editor, Political News Department, Nikkei Inc.

*English and Japanese simultaneous interpretation will be available during the forum.
*Please be advised that speakers may be subject to change.
*Honorifics and titles omitted.
As of October 18, 2019

Registration

Registrations for The 21st Nikkei Global Management Forum has been closed.

Thank you for the many applications received.
The forum will be covered, in The Nikkei and The Nikkei Business Daily newspapers,
as well as on news and other TV programs on TV TOKYO, BS TV TOKYO and Nikkei CNBC.

Date October 28 (Mon) - 29 (Tue), 2019
Venue Imperial Hotel, Tokyo Access >
Registration Fee 93,500 yen (tax is included）

*Lunch will be served on both days
Registration deadline Registration closed on Friday, October 18, 2019.
Capacity 500 seats
Registration procedures Pre-registration is required to attend NGMF2019. Please pre-register online by filling in all of the required information on the application form. Forum attendance is only available to those who complete pre-registration, and anyone arriving at the venue without completing pre-registration will not be admitted.
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Notification to the applicants Seats will be available for 500 attendees. In case there are more than 500 registration, seats will be selected by lottery. Notification will be sent to the successful registration along with an invoice and entrance ticket to the forum.
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柳井 正

Chairman, President and CEO
Fast Retailing

Tadashi Yanai

Tadashi Yanai is UNIQLO Founder and Chairman, President and CEO of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., the leading Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under eight brands worldwide. UNIQLO is the largest of the brands, the others being GU, Theory, Helmut Lang, PLST (Plus T), Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam and J Brand.

Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, with global sales of approximately 2,29 trillion yen for the 2019 fiscal year ending August 31, 2019 (US $21.60 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2019 rate of $1 = 106 yen) and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer. With a corporate statement committed to “Changing clothes. Changing conventional wisdom. Change the world,” Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere.

Yanai started with a single UNIQLO store in Hiroshima in 1984, building this to more than 2,000 stores in 24 markets including Japan, Asia, North America and Europe. In alphabetical order, the other markets are Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. and U.S. In addition, UNIQLO established a social business in Bangladesh together with the Grameen Bank Group in 2010, and today there are several Grameen-UNIQLO stores in Dhaka.

In 2017, Yanai was recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Business Minds. In 2014, UNIQLO was awarded Retailer of the Year Award by the World Retail Congress, and Yanai was ranked among the Best Performing CEOs in the World by Harvard Business Review. He has been named in TIME magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People in the World and has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from CNBC - leading global broadcaster of live business and financial news and information.

In addition to his role at Fast Retailing, Yanai has been an external director of Softbank Corp., a Japanese listed company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) that is engaged in the telecommunications and Internet business, since June 2001.

Born February 7, 1949 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Yanai graduated from Tokyo’s Waseda University in March 1971 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics. Yanai is married, with two grown children.

クリストフ・ウェバー

President and CEO
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company

Christophe Weber

Christophe Weber is President and Chief Executive Officer of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. He joined Takeda in April 2014 as Chief Operating Officer, was named President and Representative Director in June 2014 and was subsequently appointed Chief Executive Officer in April 2015.

Weber has introduced key transformations within the global organization which focus on the underlying principles of patient- and customer-centricity, accountability and being as agile as possible for a global company. These critical changes will help secure a strong and sustainable future for Takeda.

Weber has held leadership roles across many different businesses and geographies. Prior to joining Takeda, Weber held positions of increasing responsibility at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) including President & General Manager at GSK Vaccines, CEO of GSK Biologicals SA in Belgium, and member of the GSK global Corporate Executive Team. From 2008 to 2010, Weber served as Asia Pacific SVP and Regional Director at GSK Asia Pacific in Singapore.

Weber holds a doctorate in pharmacy and pharmacokinetics from the University of Lyon, France. There, he also earned master’s degrees in pharmaceutical marketing and in accounting and finance, as well as a bachelor’s degree in statistics.

ピーター・ブラベック-レッツマット

Chairman Emeritus
Nestlé

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

On April 6th, 2017, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe was appointed Chairman Emeritus of Nestlé S.A. Previously, he led the Nestlé Group from 1997 to 2008, first as CEO till 2005, and then as Chairman and CEO. In April 2008, he handed over the office of CEO and remained Chairman of the Board of Nestlé S.A.

Born in 1944 in Austria, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe graduated from the University of World Trade in Vienna with a degree in Economics. After joining the Nestlé Group in 1968, he spent a significant part of his career in Latin America, before being transferred to Nestlé’s International Headquarter in Vevey as Senior Vice-President. Appointed Executive Vice-President as of 1992 and Member of the Executive Board, he was in charge of the Strategic Business Units, Marketing & Sales, as well as Corporate Communications.

BOARD MANDATES:
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe serves as Vice-Chairman of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and as President of the Foundation Board of the Verbier Festival. He is an Independent Director of Delta Topco (Formula 1), serves as member of the Board of Directors of Salt and is President of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) foundation. Prior, he served as a Board Member of Roche, Credit Suisse, L’Oréal and Exxon Mobil Corporation. In addition, he was Chairman of the 2030 Water Resources Group, a Public Private Partnership.

AWARDS:
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe has received several awards, including the Austrian Cross of Honour for services to the Republic of Austria, "La Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca", "La Orden Francisco de Miranda" conferred by the republic of Venezuela, and the Schumpeter Prize for outstanding contribution in disruptive Innovation. The University of Alberta (Canada) conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws on him. Recently, Brabeck-Letmathe has been inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s “Hall of Fame”.

南場 智子

Founder and Executive Chairman
DeNA

Tomoko Namba

Tomoko Namba is the Founder and Executive Chairman of DeNA. Namba served as the company's CEO since its founding in 1999 until June 2011.

Prior to founding DeNA, she was a partner at McKinsey & Co. She obtained an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1990.

安藤 宏基

President and CEO
NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS

Koki Ando

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1947.
Graduated from Keio University Faculty of Business and Commerce in 1971.

Ando joined NISSIN FOODS (U.S.A.) CO., INC. in 1972 and NISSIN FOOD PRODUCTS CO., LTD. in 1973. Developed NISSIN YAKISOBA U.F.O., DONBEI, RAOH, SPA-OH, etc. Took the post of President in 1985.

He was associated with the transfer to a holding company in 2008 and has been President and Chief Executive Officer of NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CO., LTD. ever since.

Ando introduced a brand manager system in 1990. He put up a motivating internal slogan “Destroy CUP NOODLE,” and established the foundation of the Marketing Division of NISSIN FOOD PRODUCTS CO., LTD., that now plays an important role in the development of at least 350 new products annually, by bringing a competitive structure into the company. In 1990, Ando conducted a research from the Central Asia through Bhutan to Italy as the head of a “Noodle Origin Research Team”.

He won the Advertiser of the Year Award with the CUP NOODLE CM “hungry!” series at the Cannes Lion International Advertising Festival in 1997. In addition, Ando received the Medal of Honor with Blue Ribbon in 2005.

Ando currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Keio University (since 2006), Chairman of the World Instant Noodles Association (WINA) (since 2007), Chairman of the Ando Foundation (since 2007), a director of the Japan Business Federation, Chairman of Japan Association for the World Food Programme, Councilor of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations, Specialist Member of the Council for the Promotion of Dietary Education of the Cabinet Office, and other.

His publications include “Mission: Destroy CUP NOODLE! -How a Second-Generation President Maddens the Founder with His Marketing Style”, “Hungry to Win: Don't Quit Until You Win”, and “Nissin CEO’s Commitment Towards a 1 Trillion Yen Company”. (All these books were published by CHUOKORON-SHINSHA, INC.)

磯崎 功典

President and CEO
Kirin Holdings

Yoshinori Isozaki

April 1977Joined the Company
March 2004Director of San Miguel Corporation
March 2008Executive Officer and General Manager of
Corporate Planning Dept. of the Company
March 2012Representative Director and President & CEO of
Kirin Brewery Company, Limited (resigned in January 2015)
March 2015President & Chief Executive Officer of the Company
(Present Position)

TanHooiLing

Co-Founder
Grab

Tan Hooi Ling

Tan Hooi Ling is the Co-Founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super app that offers the region’s 650 million users the widest range of on-demand transport, food and package delivery services, as well as payments and financial services.

In 2019, Grab was ranked the second-most innovative company in the world on Fast Company’s “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” list. Grab was also ranked 4th on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list, making the list for the third year in a row.

Prior to joining Grab fulltime in 2015, Hooi Ling led strategic projects at Salesforce.com, working at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. Before joining Salesforce.com, Hooi Ling was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising global corporations in Southeast Asia, North America, Latin America and Australia on corporate strategy and operations.

Hooi Ling has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from the University of Bath, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Jes Staley

Group CEO
Barclays

Jes Staley

Jes Staley joined Barclays as Group Chief Executive on 1 December 2015.

Jes has nearly four decades of extensive experience in banking and financial services. He worked for more than 30 years at J.P. Morgan, initially training as a commercial banker, and later advancing to the leadership of major businesses involving Equities, Private Banking and Asset Management, and ultimately heading the company’s Global Investment Bank. Most recently, Jes served as Managing Partner at BlueMountain Capital.

Jes holds a BA in Economics from Bowdoin College.

Arun M Kumar

Chairman and CEO
KPMG India

Arun M. Kumar

Arun M. Kumar, Chairman and CEO, KPMG in India is an accomplished global executive with experience spanning multiple sectors from high technology to Government and many geographies from Silicon Valley to India. He is also a member of the global board of KPMG International.

Most recently, Kumar served as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service in the Obama Administration. He led the trade and investment promotion efforts for the U.S. Government and served as the International Trade Administration’s lead official advocating for better market access for U.S. exporters.

Before his tenure in public service, Kumar was a Partner and member of the Board of Directors at KPMG, LLP in the U.S. He led the firm’s Management Consulting practice on the West Coast serving major global clients as well as emerging Silicon Valley ventures.

Previously, Kumar was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founding CEO and CFO of three technology ventures. Over the years, he has been a mentor and advisor to a number of new ventures in Silicon Valley and India.

Kumar is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. He chairs the India Advisory Council of the US India Business Council; he had earlier served on its board for six years.

Kumar has authored a book of poetry, “Plain Truths” (2010), and co-edited a book, “Kerala’s Economy: Crouching Tiger, Sacred Cows” (2007).

Kumar received his Master’s degree in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Kerala, India. He started his career in India as a member of TAS, the central management cadre of the Tata Group.

Hideki Kobori

President
Asahi Kasei

Hideki Kobori

Born in Ishikawa in 1955, Hideki Kobori joined Asahi Kasei in 1978 after graduating from Kobe University with a B.A. in Business Administration. His first assignment was in sales of a newly developed engineering plastic. With outstanding heat resistance, the material was used in office equipment and automotive parts. He carried a 5 kg bag of sample pellets around with him as he visited prospective customers to develop new applications.

In 1985 he was transferred to the LSI business which Asahi Kasei had just begun two years earlier. Once again, Kobori was at the forefront of a new business. To make this into a growth area for the company in anticipation of the emerging digital era, in 1990 he launched a project for devices that perform analog/digital conversion of sound. Believing in the importance of acting by himself, Kobori was a frequent visitor to customers’ R&D facilities. He assembled a team of company personnel from design to manufacturing. They succeeded in getting their product adopted in the first model of a home video game console that became a smash hit, making a name for Asahi Kasei in the LSI industry. In 2010 Kobori became President of Asahi Kasei Microdevices.

In 2012 Kobori joined the Asahi Kasei Board of Directors and became the company’s Executive Officer for Strategy, Accounting, and Finance. To further accelerate the company’s growth, he planned a transformation of the corporate configuration from that of a holding company, which was adopted in 2003, to that of an operating holding company, together with a reorganization of the company’s business sectors, while performing large-scale M&A. In 2016 Kobori became President of Asahi Kasei concurrently with the adoption of the new configuration, and led a reaffirmation of the company’s operating foundations by emphasizing the key “Cs” of Connection, Communication, Challenge, and Compliance. Having spent many years in the fast-changing electronics industry, he stresses the importance of swift adaptation to changes in the business environment and market trends. His motto is “Induce change.”

2008Director and Senior Executive Officer, Asahi Kasei EMD Corp.
General Manager, Electronics Devices Marketing & Sales Center
2009Director and Primary Executive Officer, Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp.
2010President and Representative Director, Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp.
2012Director, Senior Executive Officer, Asahi Kasei Corp.
2014Representative Director, Primary Executive Officer, Asahi Kasei Corp.
2016President and Representative Director, Asahi Kasei Corp.

ジャレド・ダイアモンド

Evolutionary biologist,
the author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Professor of Geography, the University of California, Los Angeles

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond was born in Boston in 1937. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography.
He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical society.

Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan’s Cosmo Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize Honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by Rockefeller University.

He has published more than six hundred articles and his book, “Guns, Germs, and Steel” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In 2019, he was awarded Blue Planet Prize.

デイブ・モーテンセン

President and Co-Founder
Anytime Fitness
Self Esteem Brands

Dave Mortensen

From cleaning exercise equipment to selling memberships to co-founding the world’s fastest-growing fitness club franchise, Dave Mortensen has done just about everything you can do in the fitness industry. That wide-ranging experience has helped him become one of the world’s leading experts on “Making Healthy Happen.” His heartfelt practice of emotional intelligence has earned Mortensen a reputation, amongst his co-workers and throughout the entire fitness industry, as a thoughtful and generous leader. And it’s just part of the reason he was recently named an “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young.

In the early days of Anytime Fitness, Mortensen helped spur the company’s growth by overseeing the development and implementation of its integrated security, surveillance, usage-tracking and reciprocity systems. These days, he’s heavily involved in Anytime Fitness’ evolution from a gym that emphasizes simple convenience to one that offers round-the-clock coaching services, utilizing the latest technology to provide members with support, nutritional information, and a wide array of new fitness training programs. Mortensen also continues to play an important role in leading the expansion of Anytime Fitness worldwide, frequently travelling to consult with master franchisees in faraway countries like Australia, Japan and China.

The first Anytime Fitness gym opened its doors in Cambridge, MN in May of 2002. In the years since, Anytime Fitness has quickly become an international powerhouse -- with more than 4,000 gyms located in all 50 states and 30 countries on six continents, serving nearly 4 million members.

Under Mortensen’s leadership, Anytime Fitness has earned numerous industry accolades, including “One of America’s Most Promising Companies,” “Top Global Franchise” and “Fastest-Growing Fitness Club,” a “Top Franchise for Minorities” and “The Best Place to Work in Minnesota” -- four years in a row.

Mortensen is also the president and a co-founder of Self Esteem Brands, the parent company of Anytime Fitness and Waxing The City.

Sarah L. Casanova

President and CEO
McDonald’s Holdings Company (Japan)

Sarah L. Casanova

January 1991Joined McDonald’s in Canada
January 1997Appointed Senior Director,
Marketing of McDonald’s Russia/Ukraine
July 2001Appointed Senior Director, Marketing of McDonald’s Canada
October 2004Appointed Vice President, Marketing of McDonald’s Japan
April 2007Appointed Senior Vice President,
Business Development of McDonald’s Japan
July 2009Appointed Managing Director of McDonald’s Malaysia
May 2012 Appointed Managing Director of McDonald’s Malaysia and
Regional Manager McDonald’s Singapore and Malaysia
August 2013Appointed Representative Director,
President and CEO of McDonald’s Japan
March 2014Appointed Representative Director,
President and CEO of McDonald’s Holdings Japan
March 2019Appointed Representative Director and
Chairman of McDonald’s Japan

April 1965Born in Canada
December 1990Master of Business Administration from
McMaster University in Ontario, Canada

Koji Karaike

Chairman
Kyushu Railway Company

Koji Karaike

Born on April 2, 1953

March 1977Graduated from Kyoto University, Faculty of Law

April 1977Joined Japan National Railways
April 1987Deputy Chief, Labor Section, Administration Department,
Kyushu Railway Company
October 1987Deputy Chief, Sales Section, Marketing & Sales Headquarters,
Kyushu Railway Company
October 1989Deputy Chief, Marketing & Sales Section,
Shipping Business Department,
Kyushu Railway Company
June 1992Deputy Manager, Shipping Business Department,
Kyushu Railway Company
March 1993Deputy Manager, Food Service Business Department,
Distribution Business Headquarters, Kyushu Railway Company
March 1995General Manager, Food Service Business Department,
Distribution Business Headquarters,
Kyushu Railway Company
April 1996Administration Department, Kyushu Railway Company
(temporarily transferred as Representative Director and President,
JR Kyushu Food Service Inc.)
June 1997General Manager, Strategy Management Department,
Corporate Planning Headquarters,
Kyushu Railway Company
June 2000Administration Department, Kyushu Railway Company
(temporarily transferred as Representative Director and
President, JR Kyushu Food Service Inc.)
June 2003Director and Deputy Director General,
Railway Operations Headquarters, Kyushu Railway Company,
while simultaneously serving as General Manager,
Customer Service Department and Marketing & Sales Department,
Railway Operations Headquarters
June 2005Director and Deputy Director General,
Railway Operations Headquarters, Kyushu Railway Company,
while simultaneously serving as General Manager,
Customer Service Department and Marketing & Sales Department,
Railway Operations Headquarters, and Director General,
Travel Services Headquarters
June 2006Managing Director and Deputy Director General,
Corporate Planning Headquarters,
Kyushu Railway Company, and simultaneously,
General Manager, Strategy Management Department,
Corporate Planning Headquarters
June 2008Managing Director and Deputy Director General,
Corporate Planning Headquarters, Kyushu Railway Company
June 2008Representative Director, Senior Managing Director,
and Director General, Corporate Planning Headquarters,
Kyushu Railway Company
June 2009Representative Director and President, Kyushu Railway Company
June 2014Representative Director and Chairman, Kyushu Railway Company
June 2018Representative Director, Chairman, and Executive Officer,
Kyushu Railway Company (at present)

ハンス・ファン・バイレン

CEO
Henkel

Hans Van Bylen

Hans Van Bylen is the Chief Executive Officer of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, a global 20 billion euros company with successful brands, innovations and technologies as well as leading market positions worldwide in three business units: Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care. Henkel has developed to one of the most global companies listed on Germany’s major stock index DAX with a strong recognition as a leader in sustainability. Hans is proud to lead a global team of more than 53,000 employees, fully dedicated to creating sustainable value for Henkel’s customers and consumers. In 2018, Henkel recorded sales of 3.3 billion euros in Asia-Pacific, employing around 10,000 people throughout the region.

Having been appointed CEO in 2016, Hans has been a member of Henkel’s Management Board since 2005. Under his leadership, Henkel has shown strong business expansion and launched Henkel 2020+, a strategic agenda focusing on growth, digitalization and agility, shaped to generate sustainable profitable growth through to 2020 and beyond. Further focus points of Hans’ agenda are culture and talent. Many of Henkel’s top talents have grown under his leader- and mentorship.
Hans started his career at Henkel Belgium in 1984 as a sales representative, followed by increasing management and geographic responsibilities in the Netherlands, for Benelux, France, Western Europe, Africa/Middle East, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

Currently, Hans serves as President of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI). As President of the VCI, Hans has set an agenda about innovation, digitalization and responsible business. He is also a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT), amongst other forums.

Born in Belgium, Hans is married with three children. He is a graduate of the University of Antwerp, with both a degree in business management and an MBA.

Alfonso Larraín Santa María

Chairman
Viña Concha y Toro

Alfonso Larraín Santa María

Alfonso Larraín Santa María has always been involved in the wine business. His family has long and established roots in winegrowing and he took part in his first harvest at the age of 15. This experience shaped his future, as from then on he channelled all of his efforts and commitment to the development of the industry.

He joined the Board of Directors at Concha y Toro in 1969 at the age of 32 and was an active participant in all of the strategic decisions at the Company.

Upon appointment as General Manager and Director in 1973 he prompted an aggressive policy of opening new markets, (Latin America, Caribbean, USA and Canada) which turned Concha y Toro into the leading national and regional wine producer.

In 1980 he was elected president of the Exporters’ Association (Viñas de Chile), a post he held on two occasions, first until 1984 and then from 1986 to 1994. From this position he marked out guidelines and directives for the development of the sector, particularly in regard to export markets. He fulfilled his commitments to successive Chilean government administrations through orchestrating campaigns actively promoting Chilean wine in demanding European and Asian markets.

Parallel to variegate important industry posts he held, Alfonso Larraín was elected vice-chairman of the Company from 1989 to 1998. This was the fastest period of expansion for the winery and the decade of grand enterprise.

He played a vital role in the strategic alliance between Viña Concha y Toro and the French château Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1997, which led to the founding of Viña Almaviva.

Alfonso Larraín is currently chairman of Viña Concha y Toro, a position he has held since September 1998. He has since directed a series of initiatives to enhance the prestige of Concha y Toro around the world as a producer.

アラン・パーカー

Chairman and Founder
Brunswick Group

Alan Parker

Alan Parker is Chairman of Brunswick, which he founded in 1987. Alan has worked on a wide range of assignments, acts as senior consultant on many of the firm’s retained accounts and takes an active role in special project work.

Alan has established a number of group companies to Brunswick, including MerchantCantos, an integrated creative communications agency, and Brunswick Arts, the leading public relations agency for arts and cultural institutions.

From January 2016 to April 2018, Alan was Chair of Save the Children International, the umbrella organisation for the Save the Children movement. He was previously Chair of Save the Children UK from 2008 to 2015. He is also Chairman of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conferences.

He was the founder and Vice-Chairman of China Now, a nationwide festival in the UK in 2008 celebrating Chinese arts and culture designed to strengthen understanding and relationships between the UK and China, and was also Chairman of the reciprocal event, UK Now, held in China in 2012.

Alan was knighted in 2014 for services to business, charitable giving and philanthropy.

Gilberto Caldart

President - International Markets
Mastercard

Gilberto Caldart

Gilberto Caldart is President of International at Mastercard. In this role he is responsible for the management of all markets and customer-related activities outside of North America and Canada. Gilberto is a member of the Mastercard’s management committee.

Prior to his appointment, Gilberto was President of Mastercard Latin America and Caribbean region, where he led efforts to place the company at the forefront of the payments industry in the region.

A passionate advocate of innovation, technology and the power of partnership Gilberto is focused on transforming the way people, governments and businesses buy and pay for things.

Before joining Mastercard, Gilberto spent 26 years at Citigroup in various leadership positions in Brazil and New York. Most notably, he led the Citi Consumer Business in Brazil (Retail Banking, Consumer Finance and Cards) for over six years.

During his time at Citigroup, Gilberto served on the boards of Credicard and Redecard, playing a critical role in the restructuring of the Credicard Group and on the Redecard IPO transformation.

Gilberto is a member of the Junior Achievement Americas Board of Directors. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. He also has an MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Timothy Hansing

CEO
Red Planet Hotels

Timothy Hansing

Prior to founding Red Planet, Hansing was Senior Vice President Acquisitions of Kingdom Hotel Investments from 2002-2009. From 1999-2002, he was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Movenpick Hotels & Resorts, and prior to that was Director, Real Estate & Hospitality Service Group, Middle East & Africa of Arthur Andersen from 1996-1999.

Previous roles also included Senior Consultant at Pannell Kerr Forster Associates in London and various operational roles at Whitbread Hotel Group, Thistle Hotels, Fairmont, and Forte.

Lando Simonett

Chairman and Founder
La Martina

Lando Simonetti

Lando Simonetti was born in Rome, Italy, in 1942 but he moved to Argentina when he was six years old.

After a great childhood, he started his professional life in Buenos Aires and ended up working in Boston for a well know denim/jeans brand assuming a position as Vice President in their international expansion.

For him, the USA offered an unbelievably positive and comfortable environment to lead an interesting career; however he felt he had learned everything he could in the international trade in the denim sector and felt it was time to move on and build a personal project upon the idea to launch a clothing brand linked to the very roots of the sport of polo; which is a traditional sport in Argentina, where his family had settled.

He first focused in understanding the manufacturing of hand made polo equipment such as saddles, boots, bridles, helmets and created a which where the very first products along with a very unique raw cowhide leather duffel bag called “the polo bag” to carry these items on and off the polo field.

The first decade was to position the brand in Argentina through polo equipment products, a high handicap polo team under the La Martina name was created to play the most prestigious polo tournament in the world, the Argentine Polo Open.

The strategy was to produce and supply the best polo equipment to the top players, events and teams not only in Argentina but where polo is being played as a worldwide circuit.

In a short period of time he had identified opportunities in the UK, USA and other countries where polo is played traditionally.

Not long from having covered most of the best polo events in the world, he started opening a few stores in polo community areas such as Palm Beach, Florida and London, UK.

Polo players started using the equipment and appreciating the quality and service, so the next step was to create very creative design in team shirts to play the sport.

Most of the top Universities, polo associations, private clubs and events where wearing officially supplied polo team kit from the La Martina brand from Argentina, not only top professionals and amateurs but royal families from around the globe.

The exclusiveness and prestige of the sport attracted well known luxury group companies which were integrated in these designs that were later offered as corporate items to give away at these events.

Through hard work and well-targeted strategy, Lando Simonetti became not only the creator, owner and visionary of La Martina but also expanded his business model in many countries integrating a full line of luxury casual wear inspired in the lifestyle of the sport. In the second decade, the company expanded and is now in retail concepts in the best streets and commercial centers of the greatest cities, like Buenos Aires, Saint-Tropez, Milano, Las Vegas, Sylt, Dubai, etc.

Today la Martina is sold in 56 Countries throughout an exclusive retail network of 80 boutiques, multiband channel and throughout the sister company Polo Management Group present in 90 polo events around the globe every year.

The brand is considered today a synonymous of polo among the polo playing community, inspiring designs for the aspirational lifestyle demanding clientele.

Ned Segal

CFO
Twitter

Ned Segal

Ned Segal is Twitter's Chief Financial Officer, overseeing accounting, business development, corporate development, corporate security, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, internal audit, real estate and workplace, and tax and treasury for Twitter.

Prior to joining Twitter, Ned was Senior Vice President of finance for Intuit's Small Business Group. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer of RPX, the leader in patent risk management solutions to technology companies around the world, and spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as managing director, head of global software investment banking.

Ned resides in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

Nicolas Baretzki

CEO
Montblanc International

Nicolas Baretzki

Date of birth: 15 May, 1970

Career history:
Since April 2017CEO, Montblanc International
June 2013 - March 2017Executive Vice President Sales,
Montblanc International GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)
Jan. 2002 - May 2013Executive Vice President Sales,
Jaeger-LeCoultre (Switzerland)
June 1998 - Dec. 2001Commercial Director reporting to the International
Executive Director,
Cartier International (Paris, France)
June 1994 - May 1998Marketing Director for South-East Asia,
les Must de Cartier Pte Ltd. CA (Singapore)
Sep. 1993 - May 1994Audit Junior Consultant, BDA,
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Paris, France)

Education/Qualifications:
1993Master in audit/finance, H.E.C. (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales)

Civil status: Married, two children

Dustin Moskovitz

CEO and Co-Founder
Asana

Dustin Moskovitz

Dustin Moskovitz is the co-founder and CEO of Asana, a leading work management platform for teams. As Asana’s CEO, Moskovitz is dedicated to creating a product that helps teams collaborate effortlessly, in addition to leading Asana’s award-winning culture. 

Asana is a work management system that enables over 70,000 paying organizations and millions of customers around the world orchestrate their work, from daily tasks to strategic initiatives. With Asana, teams move faster and accomplish more with less. In 2018, Asana completed its Series D and Series E funding rounds, bringing the company’s total valuation to $1.5 billion. With over 600 employees worldwide, Asana is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, New York, Reykjavik, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. Asana has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Collaborative Work Management Tools for the Enterprise, Q4 2018 and a Top 5 Best Place to Work by Fortune Magazine. 

Prior to founding Asana, Moskovitz co-founded Facebook and served as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer and VP of Engineering. Moskovitz majored in economics at Harvard University prior to joining Facebook full-time in 2004.  

Kuniharu Nakamura

Chairman
Sumitomo Corporation

Kuniharu Nakamura

Date of Birth: August 28, 1950
Education: Osaka University, 1974

Business Career:
April 1974Joined Sumitomo Corporation
April 2005Executive Officer
General Manager, Corporate Planning & Coordination Dept.
April 2007Managing Executive Officer
General Manager, Corporate Planning & Coordination Dept.
April 2009Senior Managing Executive Officer
General Manager, Mineral Resources, Energy,
Chemical & Electronics Business Unit
April 2012Representative Director, Executive Vice President
General Manager, Mineral Resources, Energy,
Chemical & Electronics Business Unit
June 2012Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
April 2018Representative Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors
June 2018Chairman of the Board of Directors

Other Major Posts:
June 2013Chairman, Japan-Vietnam Economic Committee,
Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) (until May 2019)
June 2015Chairman, Committee on Trade and Investment,
Japan Business Federation (Keidanren)
June 2016Vice-Chair of the Board of Councillors
Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) (until May 2019)
May 2018Chairman, Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc.
May 2019Vice-Chair, Japan Business Federation (Keidanren)
May 2019Chairman, Japan-Myanmar Economic Committee,
Japan Business Federation (Keidanren)
June 2019Member of the Board, NEC Corporation Inc.

Senri Tanida

President
TANITA

Senri Tanida

Born in Suita, Osaka, Japan in 1972.
Graduated from Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University in 1997.

Senri Tanida joined TANITA Corporation in 2001 after having worked at other companies, including Funai Consulting Incorporated. In 2005, he became a director of TANITA Corporation of America, Inc. He has been in his current position since May 2008.

He was the man behind TANITA’s hugely successful cookbook that featured healthy low-calorie recipes from its employee cafeteria, and this has led to launching its new business, a restaurant chain TANITA Shokudo that offers the general public the same meals as the cafeteria. Another successful new business is its TANITA Health Program, a health promotion system originally developed for TANITA’s employees. The award-winning program has been adopted by many corporations and municipalities in Japan to improve the health of their employees and citizens. Tanida has transformed the “health measurement equipment manufacturer” into a “health promotion company” that provides comprehensive health management services.

小宮山 宏

Chairman, Mitsubishi Research Institute
President, Platinum Society Network
The 28th President, The University of Tokyo

Hiroshi Komiyama

A prominent academic, scientist and engineer and leading authority in global sustainability, Hiroshi Komiyama became Chairman of the Institute of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. in April 2009, after completing a four-year presidency (the 28th President) at the University of Tokyo.

He obtained a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Tokyo. His major fields of research include environmental engineering, advanced materials science and knowledge sharing. In addition to his position, he is also an advisor to the Japanese Government on subjects ranging from education to aging. In 2010 he founded the 'Platinum Society Network' to achieve a sustainable society that solves environmental, aging, educational and economic issues. He is the Chairperson of the Urban Planning and Sustainability Committee for Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

He leads Japan and the world with his strong influence, extraordinary leadership and enthusiasm to achieve global sustainability. His major English books are “Vision 2050” (Springer, 2008), “Beyond the Limits to Growth” (Springer, 2013), and “New Vision 2050” (Springer, 2017). “Vision 2050” was also translated in Chinese language.

He received Ordine Della Stella Della Solidarieta’ Italiana in 2007, Ministry of International Affairs and Communications for INFO-Communications Promotion Month in 2014, the Prime Minister's Commendations for Contributors to Promote the country as a "Maritime Nation" in 2016, MBR Knowledge Award in 2017 and others.

Gen Isayama

General Partner and CEO
WiL

Gen Isayama

Gen has extensive experience in venture capital, finance, and entrepreneurship. Passionate about unlocking people’s entrepreneurship and creativity, he founded WiL to form a new innovation engine. He currently oversees WiL’s global investment strategy and as well as incubation and carve-out practice.

Before he co-founded WiL, Gen was Partner at DCM Ventures, specializing in online media, mobile, and consumer services. He also led strategy and operations across multiple disciplines, including corporate finance and market risk management while with the Industrial Bank of Japan. He co-founded his first company, a web design firm, as a student at Tokyo University.

Gen is a technology columnist for the Nikkei’s digital edition, Nikkei Industrial Newspaper, and the Toyo Keizai Online. He is also a member of various Japanese government committees including Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to promote entrepreneurship nationwide.

Gen holds a BA from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Outside of work, Gen is an avid educator and enjoys teaching and sports. He also became a zealous golfer as he started teaching all his four children to play.

クリスチャン・ロペス

Corporate Export Director
Viña Concha y Toro

Cristián López

In 1996, Cristián López joins the leading Chilean winery Concha y Toro. Initially he worked on establishing the global brand portfolio strategy.

He led the expansion of the company's presence in the highly competitive UK market by setting up the company's corporate operation abroad as CyT UK Limited in January 2001. He headed the business based in Oxford, UK, as Managing Director from 2001-2009. During this period he grew the business to a team of circa 40 people, taking volume sales from 265,000 cases (12 bottles) in 2000 to 5.2 million cases in 2009, with one in every 2 bottles of Chilean wine sold in the UK coming from Concha y Toro group.

Cristián returns to Chile creating a New Corporate Zone to develop Asia with greater focus and resource. He has since then set up a regional office (hub) based in Singapore, a dedicated office for China based in Shanghai.

In June 2013, showing his commitment to the region, Cristián moved with his family to Asia for 18 months, choosing as his base Shanghai, given the importance of the development of China as a priority in the region, but also being well placed to support his team of over 20 people in Asia and the Concha y Toro group partners.

Having returned to Chile, Cristián focused on shaping the business to the needs of the markets and developing trends in Asia. In January 2018 López was appointed as Corporate Export Director, responsible for all countries in which the company does not have its own distribution network.

LawrenceHo

Chairman and CEO
Melco Resorts & Entertainment

Lawrence Ho

Lawrence Ho is the Chairman and CEO of Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited (Nasdaq: MLCO) and Melco International Development Limited (HKEx: 200). He oversees the companies’ vision and strategy, with the goal to redefine gaming and entertainment by delivering iconic destinations for the Asian premium market. Since taking over Melco International in 2001, Lawrence commenced a decade-long transformation of the business into a pioneering leisure and entertainment group. He started leading Melco Resorts & Entertainment in 2004, with a clear vision to create premium Integrated Resorts that go beyond gaming.

Lawrence’s first casino hotel was Altira in 2007 in Taipa Macau, a 9-time winner of the “Forbes Travel Guide” for 5-star hotel and spa. He continued on by launching City of Dreams in 2009, which currently features numerous Michelin-starred restaurants.  City of Dreams is also home to his latest hotel, Morpheus, which was launched in 2018. Morpheus is the world’s first ever free-form exoskeleton high-rise architectural masterpiece designed by the late Dame Zaha Hadid and ranked in 2018 by Time Magazine as one of the World’s greatest places. Located across from the City of Dreams is Studio City, the cinematically-themed resort launched in 2015 that delivers unique and exhilarating guest experiences.

Beyond Macau, Lawrence has expanded the Melco brand to the Philippines with City of Dreams Manila in 2015. Melco has also expanded to Cyprus where it currently operates four satellite casinos and expects to launch City of Dreams Mediterranean in 2021, which will be the largest premier integrated resort in Europe.

In May 2019, Melco agreed to acquire a 19.99% stake in Crown Resorts Limited, a leading Australian premier resort provider that is listed on the Australian Securities Exchang, which will enable it to expand its presence to Australia and the United Kingdom.

Under Lawrence’s leadership, Melco destinations are internationally recognized for their singular focus on high-quality guest experiences through world-class entertainment, retail, dining, and hospitality. Melco’s properties showcase the record-breaking show “The House of Dancing Water” in collaboration with Franco Dragone, Asia’s largest Virtual Reality zone and Macau’s first ever EStadium. All of his properties have garnered industry recognition for excellence. Melco has over 360 awards to date; all of his properties have received the Forbes 5-star rating and his properties have the most Michelin stars in Macau. In 2018, Melco received the top number of entries for any integrated resort operator in the world, with its hotels and spas listed in the “Forbes Travel Guide 2018 World’s Most Luxurious Hotels/Spas”. Lawrence is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in commerce and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.

Dominique Turpin

Dean of External Relations
IMD

Dominique Turpin

Dominique Turpin was previously the director of the IMD MBA (Master of Business Administration) and PED (Program for Executive Development). He was named IMD President in July 2010 and now entitled as Dean of External Relations.

Turpin has directed customized programs for companies such as Groupe SEB, Panasonic, Japan Tobacco International. He has extensive teaching, consulting and research experience in the areas of marketing and international strategy both in Europe and in Asia, particularly in the area of brand management, customer orientation and communications strategy.

He has worked as a consultant and management educator with a large number of international companies including: Coca Cola, CPW, Danone, DSM, Jardine Matheson, Nestlé, Novo Nordisk, Philips and Uponor. He also served as a board member for ITOCHU Europe, a leading Japanese trading company and the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne.

He has widespread executive seminar and consulting experience for clients in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Prior to joining IMD, he spent several years in Tokyo as a representative of a French firm in Japan. He served as Visiting Professor at the Keio Graduate School of Business Administration, Japan. Since 1994, Turpin has served as the IMD representative on the Academic Council of the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai (People's Republic of China).

He received his master's degree from ESSCA in France. He earned a doctorate in economics from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

His current research focuses on brand management, and he has been widely published in more than 100 books, articles and case studies including the Financial Times, European Business Forum and MIT Sloan Management Review.

竹内 弘高

Professor
Harvard Business School

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Professor Takeuchi received his B.A. from International Christian University in Tokyo and M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

He was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School from 1976 to 1983, where he taught courses in marketing and retailing in the MBA program. He joined Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo as an Associate Professor in 1983 and became Professor in 1987. In 1998, he became the Founding Dean at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS). In 2010, he returned to Harvard Business School as a Professor of Management Practice in the Strategy Unit. In 2019, he became Chair, Board of Trustees at his alma mater International Christian University. He currently teaches a field course in the second-year MBA curriculum at HBS (Japan Immersive Field Course: Fusion of Digital and Analog) and is the Faculty Chair for two customized programs in Executive Education.

Professor Takeuchi’s current research interests are focused on (a) the knowledge creation process within organizations, (b) knowledge-based strategy, (c) practical wisdom as the basis of continuous innovation, and (d) agile innovation methods.

He is the author of The Best Practice Revolution (Diamond-sha, 1994, in Japanese) and the co-author of the following books: (1) Corporate Self-Innovation: Managing Chaos and Creation (H. Takeuchi et al., Chuo Koron-sha, 1986, in Japanese);（2）Managing Heterogeneity: The Path to Global Management (H. Takeuchi and Yoko Ishikura, Diamond-sha, 1994, in Japanese); (3) The Knowledge-Creating Company (Ikujiro Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, Oxford University Press, 1995), which won the 1995 “Best New Book of the Year” Award for the Business and Management category by the Association of American Publishers; (4) Can Japan Compete? (M. Porter, H. Takeuchi, and M. Sakakibara, 2000, London: McMillan in English, and Diamond-sha in Japanese), (5) Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management (I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, John Wiley & Sons, 2004), (6) Extreme Toyota (E. Osono and N. Shimizu and H. Takeuchi, John Wiley & Sons, 2008), (7) The Wise Company (I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, Oxford University Press, 2019), and others.

His business experience includes marketing research and account service work with McCann-Erikson in Tokyo and San Francisco, and management consulting work with McKinsey & Company in Tokyo. He is an advisor/trustee to a number of organizations and an external board member of several Japanese companies.

ライオネル・バーバー

Editor-in-Chief
Financial Times

Lionel Barber

Since his appointment in 2005, Barber has helped to transform the FT from a newspaper publisher into a multi-channel global news organisation. During his editorship the FT has won many international awards for its journalism.

Barber has co-written several books and has lectured widely on foreign policy, transatlantic relations and economics. As editor, he has interviewed many of the world’s leaders in business and politics, including: US President Barack Obama, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Russian president Vladimir Putin and President of Iran Hassan Rouhani.

Barber began his career in journalism in 1978 as a reporter for The Scotsman. He then moved to The Sunday Times as a business correspondent and joined the FT in 1985 as a business reporter. During his FT career, he has also served as Washington correspondent, Brussels bureau chief, news editor, European editor and US managing editor.

Barber serves on the Board of Trustees at the Tate and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He graduated in 1978 from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University with a joint honours degree in German and modern history and speaks fluent French and German.

ジョジ・トマス・フィリップ

Founder and Editor-in-Chief
DEALSTREETASIA

Joji Thomas Philip

Joji is the founder of DEALSTREETASIA, a Singapore-headquartered financial news platform tracking deal activity in Asia, including private equity, venture capital activity, deal flows, initial public offers, investments, fund-raising and startups. The company has reporters across Southeast Asia, India and HK. (In April 2019, Nikkei announced it has picked up a controlling stake in DealStreetAsia). Joji is a 24×7 information enthusiast and leads a pan-Asia team. Prior to this, he was among the most prolific journalists in India, and chronicled the communications/telecoms segment, breaking some of the biggest stories in these sectors, during his tenure at The Economic Times, and Business Standard. From 2013, he has also been writing for Mint, a financial daily from HT Media Ltd. Joji won the Business Standard-Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Journalism in March 2006.

槍田 真希子

Deputy Editor
Video News Department
Nikkei Inc.

Makiko Utsuda

Makiko Utsuda is a Nikkei deputy editor, producing business and market- related news videos. She also presents "Channel JAPAN", a weekly English program broadcast across Asia, featuring the latest in the Japanese economy, business trends, and culture.

Prior to joining Nikkei in 2008, she was a staff reporter for Japanese public broadcaster NHK, and served as a New York correspondent covering the United Nations, NASA, and presidential elections among other news.

中村 直文

Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Naofumi Nakamura

Naofumi Nakamura served as a senior staff writer and editorial writer from 2019. Prior to this, he was a senior staff writer from 2018. He joined Nikkei Inc. as a staff writer after graduating from Kanazawa University, School of Economics in 1989.

He held positions at Business News Department, Commodity News Department, Economic and Business News Department at Osaka Head Office, and Editorial Department at Sapporo Branch Office.

From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a senior staff writer and deputy editor-in-chief for the Nikkei MJ (marketing journal), Tokyo Editorial Bureau. From 2016 to 2018, he was editor-in-chief for the Nikkei MJ (marketing journal).

原 克彦

Nikkei Asian Review Politics & Economy News Editor
Nikkei Inc.

Katsuhiko Hara

Katsuhiko Hara is the Nikkei Asian Review politics & economy news editor, in charge of leading the team of editors on news regarding macroeconomics, politics and international relations across Asia and the world.

Prior to this, he served as the chief correspondent of Nikkei’s Geneva Bureau for five years, reporting on variety of topics such as international organizations such as WTO and WHO, global companies like Nestle and Ikea, Italian politics, Swiss finance, Iran nuclear deal, FIFA scandals and the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

He also has eleven years of experience in reporting consumer sector.

田中 陽

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Yo Tanaka

Yo Tanaka is a Senior Staff Writer of the Economic Commentary Department, Nikkei Inc. He graduated from Keio University in 1985 and joined Nikkei Inc. in the same year.
In 1990, he became a staff writer for the Marketing News Department.　

Tanaka reported on department stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, and foodservice companies for a long time. From 2002, he worked as a Senior Staff Writer in the Marketing News Department (2002), Nikkei Business (2006), consumption industrial Department (2009) and Business News Department (2009). He has held the current position since 2015.

He was also the navigator of “FUTURE CENTURY ZIPANGU” on TV TOKYO, commentator for “Nikkei plus 10” on BS JAPAN and for “Sunday Journal” on Aichi Television, and an anchor on “Evening Express” on Nikkei CNBC. He was an Adjunct Instructor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies as well.

Tanaka is the author of “SEVEN-ELEVEN Endless Innovation” and “Survival of Department Stores”, the co-author of “New Pricing Revolution”, “Fall of the Daiei Castle”, and “A Very Easy-to-understand Guide to the Japanese Economy”, and the co-translator of “My Life with Marketing” by Philip Kotler, among other publications.

高橋 香織

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Kaori Takahashi

Kaori Takahashi is Senior Staff Writer and Deputy Editor of International News Department at Nikkei Inc. Before taking the role this year, she spent five years as Nikkei's first female Sydney Bureau Chief, covering politics, global resources and international trade issues across the Pacific and East Asia.

Entering Nikkei in 1994, Takahashi has reported for the City News, International News, Lifestyle, and Business News sections. Her period as Sydney Bureau Chief brought two editor's prizes for breaking news: one for groundbreaking concessions that secured Japan’s first broad trade agreement with a major agricultural exporter, and the other for Toyota's withdrawal from production in Australia. She commentated on Asia issues for Australian media.

Kaori graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Between 1990 and 1991 she studied at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University.
She lives in Tokyo with her husband and a son. Their daughter lives in Sydney.

大林 尚

Senior Editorial Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Tsukasa Obayashi

Tsukasa Obayashi joined Nikkei Inc. after graduating from Waseda University.

After working at the News Editing Department(Tokyo Head Office) and the Chiba bureau, he worked at the Economic News Department (Tokyo Head Office), covering mainly the press clubs of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); Bank of Japan; the Economic Planning Agency; and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (now the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare).

Obayashi served as a deputy editor of Economic News Department, and then as senior staff writer and editorial writer, writing editorials and columns on economic policies, such as taxation, finance, social security, and regulatory reforms.

After that, he worked in London as a senior staff writer of the Editorial Headquarters for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and reported structural issues in Europe, such as BREXIT. He had been the Editor-in-Chief of the Editorial Headquarters for Europe, Middle East and Africa before taking up the current role of senior editorial writer.

Obayashi is also an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, and has some published work, including the edited book “Declining Population? Creating a New Nation” brought out by Nikkei Publishing Inc.

大岩 佐和子

Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Sawako Oiwa

After graduating from university, Sawako Oiwa joined Nikkei Inc. in 1996. She was first assigned to the Marketing News Department and reported on specialty stores, restaurants, convenience stores, and consumer products companies for a long time. When Oiwa was a desk editor of Nikkei MJ, she widened her coverage range to Net business, service industry among other areas. When a new service is launched or a new store opens up, her motto is to actually try it out. In addition, she gained coverage experience of the autonomy of citizens and communities through reporting local governments for a long time. Oiwa became a Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer in April last year. She’s expanding her activities to lectures and speeches, besides writing articles.

渡辺 園子

Editor-in-Chief of Nikkei’s Osaka Editorial Headquarters and
Aide to the Publisher of Nikkei Asian Review
Nikkei Inc.

Sonoko Watanabe

Sonoko Watanabe is the editor-in-chief of Nikkei’s Osaka editorial headquarters, where she oversees the company’s editorial activities in western Japan. Before moving to Osaka in April 2019, she was editor-in-chief of the Nikkei Asian Review, Nikkei’s English-language news service. She now doubles as an aide to the publisher of NAR.

Watanabe joined Nikkei in 1987 as a reporter in the Business News Department. She covered various industries including the automotive, electronics and telecom sectors. From 1994 to 1997 she worked as a correspondent in Singapore, covering business across the ASEAN region, and from 2006 to 2009 she was Nikkei’s bureau chief in Shanghai. As an editor, she has worked in the business news, international news and economic commentary departments.

Watanabe graduated from Waseda University with a BA in economics in 1987.

渡辺 洋之

Managing Director
Digital Business and General Manager of Nikkei innovation Lab
Nikkei Inc.

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Hiroyuki Watanabe started as a reporter for Nikkei McGraw-Hill, now Nikkei BP, in 1985, and has since become editor and editor-in-chief for vertical publications focusing on Management and IT. His move to the business side was in 2005 when he became responsible for Internet business development. Hiroyuki joined Nikkei, Inc. in 2009 and was one of the key personnel responsible for developing the Nikkei, Online Edition. Since the launch, he is responsible for business operation of the Online Edition and business development for other new digital products and services.

田中 暁人

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Akito Tanaka

Akito Tanaka is a senior staff writer for Nikkei, covering the technology and automobile sector. Tanaka has over fifteen years of reporting experience and has been covering global companies in both Japan and the United States. Tanaka graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with BA in political science. He spent his childhood years in Lisbon, Portugal, attending the American International School.

Atsushi Nakayama

Commentator
Nikkei Inc.

Atsushi Nakayama

Atsushi Nakayama is an expert in industrial and managerial trends in the automotive, transport, and electronics industries. He worked as a senior staff writer and as an editorial writer before starting his current position in February of 2017. He has performed lectures on topics such as “GE and Toshiba” and “The Future of Mobility”. He was stationed in New York during the 9/11 terror attacks and provided reporting on them.

桃井 裕理

Deputy Editor
Political News Department
Nikkei Inc.

Yuri Momoi

Yuri Momoi graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo in 1995 and joined Nikkei Inc. She was assigned to the company’s China Headquarters in the first half of the 2000s, where she covered the worsening Japan-China relation under the Junichiro Koizumi administration, Chinese diplomacy, domestic and military affairs, and so on. She had reported the news of industries such as automobiles, trading, and the Internet at Business News Department. Momoi has held her current position since 2014.