Team
Profile
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Katsuhiko Oizumi
President and CEO
President and CEO
Katsuhiko OizumiPresident and CEO
Katsuhiko OizumiB.S. in Urban Engineering at Faculty of , University of Tokyo
Program for Management Development (PMD) at Harvard Business SchoolKatsuhiko Oizumi founded UTokyo IPC in 2016. He has involved in overall management and investment judgment as CEO. He joined Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in 1980 and, on behalf of the company, he lent his expertise for the IT related venture company as one of the founding members. He had been as CEO of Mitsui & Co. Global Investment Inc. for four years until 2015. After the preparation of a company formation at the University of Tokyo, he has involved in UTokyo IPC as CEO since 2016.
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Kosuke Ueda
Partner (CFO)
Fund Management /Corporate Department
Partner (CFO)
Kosuke UedaPartner (CFO)
Kosuke Ueda· Master of Law at Kansai University
· Juris Doctor of Seikei University
· Completed the training for government officials at Ministry of Finance.Kosuke Ueda joined UTokyo IPC in 2017 and involved in fund management and general corporate works. He worked at Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. (currently, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc.) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). He moved to SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS CO., LTD as CFO, executive officer, and general manager of strategic subsidiary corporate planning division at SEGA SAMMY. Supervised the administration department and concurrently served as an executive officer at the overseas subsidiary. After the experience as assistant manager of global business unit at MISUMI Group Inc., he moved to UTokyo IPC.
Kosuke has unique background from the fact that he had played as creative producer and also as the featured actor at the theatrical group, the “startup” in entertainment field, until he was 29 years old. He achieved to grow the theatrical group to the one that can gather a few thousands of audiences while touring many mini-theater in Kansai area. Kosuke is the self-claimed singer, dancer and multi-talented man who has the various experiences from business development and management at the both private and public sectors.
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Makoto (Mark) Ohori, Ph.D
Partner
Investment Focus
Life SciencePartner
Makoto (Mark) Ohori, Ph.DInvestment RIN InstitutePartner
Makoto (Mark) Ohori, Ph.DMakoto (Mark) Ohori, Ph.D joined UTokyo IPC in October 2020. Prior to UTokyo IPC, Mark was Executive Director, Head of Early-stage Partnering at Astellas Innovation Management LLC (Cambridge, MA), where he established and managed dozens of strategic partnerships with life science companies and academic institutions in the US, Europe, and Japan. Before that, he worked for Astellas Venture Management LLC (Menlo Park, CA) as Investment Director and made investments in around fifteen biotech ventures. More than half of them already achieved Exits (IPO or M&A). Mark also led the efforts of partnering and collaboration management with portfolio companies including build-to-buy NewCos. He was working in-residence at Potenza Therapeutics, where he served as Co-chair of the Joint Steering Committee. The company was successfully achieved Exit (M&A) with three clinical programs, which were discovered under the collaboration. Mark also has fifteen-years of experience of drug discovery research with leading cross-functional teams in Fujisawa Pharmaceuticals and Astellas Pharma. Mark advanced his training as a molecular biologist in the Faculty and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tokyo, where he received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.
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Kazuhiko Kakehi
Partner
Collaboration with The University of Tokyo and government offices,
networking with companiesPartner
Kazuhiko KakehiPartner
Kazuhiko Kakehi·Ph.D. in Computer Science, Waseda University
Kazuhiko Kakehi joined UTokyo IPC in 2016 as a founding member. He serves governmental and academic relations under the governmental initiative to promote venture investment of national universities. He is also responsible for the LP and public affairs.
Starting his career as assistant professor of UTokyo in 2002, he served the same university as industry liaison from 2006. His primary role was international development, which gave him enlightenment how universities worldwide have been changing and evolving themselves.
His passion is to vitalize UTokyo now that the startup is the key to make impact from academia into the society.
He now lives in northern Kanto and is enjoying commuting using the “Shinkansen” bullet train. He also enjoys driving his AWD car; he belonged to an English debating team and a cricket team in his university days. -
Mikio Kawahara
Chief Investment Officer
Major Investment Areas:
Life Science / Deep TechChief Investment Officer
Mikio KawaharaInvestment QD Laser
CREWT Medical Systems
AccuRNA
Tagcyx Biotechnologies
Braizon Therapeutics
Modalis Therapeutics
Adriakaim
FimecsChief Investment Officer
Mikio KawaharaMaster of Mathematical Engineering at University of Tokyo
MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management
MEM at Northwestern’s McCormick School of EngineeringMikio Kawahara has joined UTokyo IPC since 2016 and has led investment and business development. He joined Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. in 1997 and engaged in research and development of factory systems and image processing as IT engineer. His next roles at Corporate Planning Division were strategic business alliances and M&A transactions. In 2007, he established RIKEN Genesis Co., Ltd., a spin-out startup from RIKEN Research Institute, and led its management as as COO. In this role of around 10 years, he pioneered the personalized medicine business in Japan. From 2014, he concurrently served as President and CEO of BNA Inc., a biotech startup incubated at Osaka University.
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Shoichiro Fukushima
Partner
Major Investment Areas:
Electronics, materialsPartner
Shoichiro FukushimaInvestment QD Laser
Connected Robotics
Spectronix
BIRD INITIATIVEPartner
Shoichiro FukushimaMaster of Science, Materials Science, The University of Tokyo
Master of Science, Engineering & Public Policy , Carnegie Mellon University
Research student at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of TokyoShoichiro Fukushima joined UTokyo IPC in 2018 and has been engaged in creating and evaluating various startups especially in engineering fields. As a director of a management consulting company, he had over 18 year-experiences in consulting services targeting mainly for Japanese manufacturers in terms of new business development and R&D strategy . He also has the experiences of leading the practical project aimed for educating future business leaders with engineering background. He was active for lectures and writing activities in Management of Technology(MOT)
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Takahiro Mizumoto
Partner - Investment and Incubation
Major Investment Areas:
General BtoB/BtoC services,
Entrepreneur Support Program ManagerPartner - Investment and Incubation
Takahiro MizumotoInvestment Xenoma
TELEXISTENCE
Synspective
AXELSPACE
ASTROSCALE
Connected Robotics
Modulus Discovery
Onedot
BionicM
UrbanX TechnologiesPartner - Investment and Incubation
Takahiro Mizumoto· Master of Technical Management at Kyoto University
· Passed the patent attorney final examination in 2004Takahiro Mizumoto has joined UTokyo IPC since 2017 and has involved in investment in IT / service ventures and support programs for entrepreneurs. He experienced venture investment in high-tech fields including IT and medical care at Daiwa SMBC Capital Co. Ltd. (currently, Daiwa Corporate Investment Co., Ltd.) After moving to Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., as a task force leader, he led all processes from a new business planning to launching to markets in the various types of projects related to payment system, new electric power project, digital transformation for stores. He started investment activities again from January 2017 at UTokyo IPC. He launched the support program for entrepreneurs.
Takahiro studied so hard to become patent attorney just because he wanted to work at his own pace. He successfully passed the examination for patent attorney but he changed his mind. Educations for entrepreneurship at Graduate School of Kyoto University made him to decide to enter into venture capital industry instead of working as a patent attorney. Takahiro selected his specialized area as a state-of-the-art technology field as he believes “I finally became a patent attorney and I should utilize my knowledge as much as possible…”. Due to the fact he is out of the direction and his first investment target was the startups whose service was related to GPS. After the Lehman Brother shock, he moved to the business company. He enjoyed a lot playing as planning staff for a while. Now he has just came back to investment world while keeping having his solid original objectives.
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Saori Ozawa
Manager
Alliance with Univ of Tokyo, governmental entities and corporate partners
Manager
Saori OzawaManager
Saori Ozawa·Education : Thai language, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Saori Ozawa joined UTokyo IPC in 2019 as a collaboration manager among University of Tokyo, Japanese governmental entities, foreign academic authorities and private companies which support ecosystem around the University of Tokyo. She started her career in financial field at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation from 2012 to 2015. She experienced sales activities for small-to-medium sized companies and provided marketing research and coordination services for collaborative stakeholders in growing industry such as robotics, IoT, AI and infrastructure development projects.
From 2018 to 2019, she worked for Sojitz Europe plc and conducted research activities, analyzing and consulting services for newly developing industry in European countries. -
Yayoi Takeuchi
Secretary
Secretary
Yayoi TakeuchiSecretary
Yayoi TakeuchiYayoi Takeuchi joined UTokyo IPC in 2019 as a secretary to CEO. She has involved in corporate operations. She worked for the National Research and Development Agency as a secretary and supported facilitation of research. She worked as an assistant to the executive member at the foreign affiliated beverage manufacturer. Yayoi launched her own business in 2016 however the status is open but not doing business. She is now placing her hope for her unfulfilled dream as a business owner in potential global ventures which will be generated from around UTokyo and from Japan. She has kept this fact as secrecy but she is like an athletic type of person and she has been working on muscle training and enjoying sports activities with the belief that “Under any circumstances with full of stress, you must always perform your best both at your business and at sport world. She strongly believes it is the common way of thinking in business and also in sports”.
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Atsuhiro Bingo
Manager
Investment and Business development
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Kei Furukawa
Manager
Investment and Business development
Manager
Kei FurukawaInvestment WealthNavi
Aidemy
BionicM
HarvestXManager
Kei FurukawaKeio University Law and Political Science B.A
・INSEAD MBA
・2019 – Present UTokyo IPC:Manager, investment and business development.
・2018 – 2019 Golden Whales Group:VP of sales. Involved in venture investment, new business development, and technology sales.
・2012 – 2016 Sony Russia:Manager, contributed to expansion of sales and market share at Sony Russia.
・2010 – 2012 Sony Corporation: Assigned to the EU marketing team at TV business head office. -
Hideki Nagasaka
Manager
Business Development, Corporate Alliance, and Incubation Program Manager
Manager
Hideki NagasakaManager
Hideki NagasakaHideki Nagasaka joined UTokyo-IPC in 2020 and leads 1stRound incubation program. Hideki holds a Bachelor Degree in Political Economy from University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded Spiral (Tokyo), an indoor drone solution. He also worked as Strategic Alliance Specialist at Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting/Venture Support.
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Akihiko Asami
Senior Advisor
Corporate alliance
Senior Advisor
Akihiko AsamiSenior Advisor
Akihiko Asami· B.S. in Economics at Waseda University, Master of Business Administration at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in US.
Akihiko Asami joined UTokyo IPC in 2018. He has involved in overall business such as investment and business development, and cooperation with companies as a Senior Adviser. He joined Fuji Bank, Ltd. in 1985 After he moved to investment banking division at Goldman Sachs, he experienced numerous large-scale M&A, self-investment projects and financing in communications, media and technology industries as a managing director for 15 years.
In 2019 he joined investment banking division at Deutsche Securities and experienced numerous large-scale M&A as a general manager for telecommunications, media, technology and healthcare industries.
In 2011 he moved to investment banking division at Barclays Securities and involved in services for almost all industries as a head of IBD and a vice chairman. Especially he poured his energy on building up a solid alliance between SMBC group. -
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