Akiko Murai Independent Director and Leadership Coach Akiko Murai is a leadership and career coach with Organizational Development and Talent Management background with more than 30 years of diverse professional experience ranging from the field work in Brazil with a United Nations agency to marketing financial products and services to high net worth individuals at…
Yutaka Iijima COO and Executive Director As COO of Phoenixi, a Kyoto-based residential incubator for aspiring corporate intrapreneurs and social entrepreneurs, Yutaka develops and runs its programs, while heading the incubator’s international engagement, branding, and academia collaboration. Before Phoenixi, Yutaka worked at Kyoto University for about 13 years, serving as global communications manager of Kyoto…
Izumi Kobayashi Founder Former Executive Director Director and a board member of OMRON Corporation, ANA Holdings, Mitsui & Co. and Mizuho Financial Group. 2008-2013 CEO and EVP of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group. 2001- 2008 Representative Director and CEO of Merrill Lynch in Japan.
Sachiko Kuno Executive Director and Founder Dr. Sachiko Kuno is the co-founder and Chair Emeritus of Halcyon, a nonprofit dedicated to the power of human creativity. Kuno also serves as CEO of S&R Evermay (formerly S&R Foundation), a 501(c)(3) she co-founded in 2000 to support talented individuals with great potential and high aspirations in the…
Yukiko Hashitera CEO and Founder MBA, Master of Public Health. After graduating of college of pharmacy, Yukiko Hashitera joined pharmaceutical industry and she was involved the development of glaucoma and chronic idiopathic constipation medicine as a researcher. In 2008 she succeeded the listing of R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. in Heracles Market (currently JASDAQ) as a CEO.…
