Jun Yamada

Director

Senior Vice President, Qualcomm
Chairman and President, Qualcomm Japan

Jun Yamada serves as senior vice president of Qualcomm and chairman and president of Qualcomm Japan since March 2009. In this role, Mr. Yamada is responsible for Qualcomm’s business operations in Japan and with Japanese licensees. Yamada previously served as chairman from June 2008, and was appointed to president in March 2005. Yamada began his career at Qualcomm Japan in 1998, when Qualcomm Japan Inc. was established. He worked on standards, new technology development, technology marketing, career and industry relations, promotion of application platform, BREW®, and so on.

Prior to joining Qualcomm Japan, Yamada served as technical director of AccessLine Technologies which founded One Number Service Inc., a NTT and NTT DOCOMO joint venture, and provided value-added telecommunication services to consumers. Yamada began his career at Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd., after graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1978. He was engaged in developing digital communication systems for land mobile and cellular, including systems for North America. He has Bachelor of Electronics Engineering.

Mario Tokoro, Ph.D

Director

Co-Founder, President and CEO, Sony
Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.

Dr. Mario Tokoro is a Co-Founder, President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., established in 1988. The laboratories are small yet extremely high-level, unique ones with full of freedom and originality. The laboratories focused on research in computer science for the first decade, and then on human-centric research for the second decade, and now on sustainability research. Open Energy Systems and Healthcare, among others are typical recent research topics. As the conceptual base for research, he has been advocating a new scientific methodology called Open Systems Science to solve problems of complex, ever-changing systems such as earth sustainability, life and health, and man-made huge information infrastructures (Open Systems Science – from Understanding Principles to Solving Problems, IOS Press, 2010).

Dr. Tokoro is Sony Research Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University since 2009, and gives lectures of Innovation Strategy and Management and organizes the Symposium Series titled Towards Further Development for Mankind and Society.

He has been serving as the Research Supervisor of the Japan Science and Technology Agency project of Dependable Embedded OS for Practical USE (DEOS), which is a $50 million project over 7 years started in 2006. In this project, he advocates Open Systems Dependability (OSD) and leads the development of the DEOS process to achieve OSD.

Dr. Tokoro received Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Keio University and became Professor of Computer Science at Keio University. He is an expert and innovator in Computers and Internet. For example, he invented Acknowledging Ethernet and developed one of the earliest campus-wide networks called Keio S&T Network in 1981. He devised and promoted the notion of Object Oriented Concurrent Programming and edited a pioneering book (Object-Oriented Concurrent Programming, MIT Press, 1987). He led the project of Muse Operating System at Sony Computer Science Laboratories and was later used in several Sony’s products including Digital Satellite TV Set-Top-Boxes and AIBO pet robots.

In 1997, Dr. Tokoro moved from Keio University to Sony Corporation and became Corporate Senior Vice President, and then assumed to be CTO in 2000. He promoted the method of architecture-based design and common software platform for consumer electronics products. For such purpose, he established a consortium called CELF (Consumer Electronics Linux Forum) with eleven international corporations including Panasonic, IBM, and Philips). CELF was recently absorbed in Linux Foundation to form a workgroup for embedded systems. Now, almost all Sony products exploit Linux or Linux-based software. He retired from Sony Corporation in 2008

He was Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo and Carnegie-Mellon University, Visiting Researcher at GMD, and Visiting professor at University of Paris VI. He served as a member of British Telecom Group CTO External Advisory Board (2003-2006), NTT DoCoMo Technology Advisor Board (2003-2004), and various Governmental Committees. He has been an Associate Member of Science Council of Japan since 2006. He was awarded Officier de l’Ordre National du Merit from the Republic of France in 2005 and Docteur Honoris Causa from University of Paris (UPMC) in 2010.

Daisuke Kotegawa

Director

Former Executive Director for Japan, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Mr. Daisuke Kotegawa is the Executive Director for Japan at the IMF from July 2007 to August 2010. In this capacity he was in charge of the unprecedented level of cut of the budget and the staff numbers of the IMF, approved various new measures of the IMF to tackle the world economic crisis. Among other things he chaired the last meeting of the New Arrangements to Borrow, which successfully raised $ 600 billion for the IMF. Since late 1990s he was in charge of dealing with financial crisis in Japan, including;

(i) the liquidation of Yamaichi Securities, Sanyo Securities in 1997 in the Securities Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Finance,

(ii) nationalization of LTCB, NCB in 1998 in the Financial Supervisory Authority and ,

(iii) the establishment of the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan in 2003, as well as,

(iv) the creation of business recovery funds in the Development Bank of Japan.

He was also involved in various international negotiations, including US-Japan Framework Consultation, WTO Negotiation on Financial Services (Counterparts were Prof. Summers and Tim Geitner), US-Japan Negotiation on the Structural Impediments Initiatives, World Bank Group Capital Increase which raised the Japan’s status from No 5 to No 2, Yen-$ Committee and OECD Guidelines on Transfer Pricing. He served as the vice chairman of the Committee on Fiscal Affairs at OECD and initiated the committee on Tax Competition which established the Black List. He also worked in Minister’s Secretariat, Budget Bureau, Tax Bureau, Finance Bureau and International Bureau in the MOF.

His assignment outside the MOF includes Senior Financial Economist in the World Bank (in charge of IDA negotiation and design of new financial instruments) and the Deputy Vice Governor of Yamagata prefecture. Recently he has been invited for presentation by Harvard Business School, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business at Beijing University, Fudan University in Shanghai, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, National University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Vanderbilt University, American University in Washington DC, St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and Asia Innovation Initiative. A native of Usuki city in Oita prefecture, his extracurricular activities include Russian interpreter for Soviet artists while as a student of the University of Tokyo. He is fluent in Japanese, English, and good in Russian and German.

Kazuhiko Toyama

Director

CEO, Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.

Graduated from the University of Tokyo (BA in Law) in 1985. Passed the national bar examination in 1984. Joined the Boston Consulting Group in 1985. In 1986, joined establishment of Corporate Directions, Inc. and assumed an executive role of overseeing operations including strategic planning, development of client service concepts, implementations and monitoring, etc., for a wide range of industries. Completed MBA and Public Management Program at Stanford University in 1992.

In 2001, became CEO of Corporate Directions, Inc. Extensively experienced revitalization planning and implementations ranging from large-scale failure cases such as former Nippon Lease to medium-sized ones such as Akiyama Printing Machinery. In April 2003 appointed Executive Managing Director and COO of Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan, a government-backed restructuring agency, whose primary mission is to facilitate coherent revitalization of industrial and financial sectors as well as promote the development of business revitalization market in Japan. In 2007, he established Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. which aims to support our clients to achieve long-term and sustainable enhancement of enterprise value.

Expert member of Council on Economic Fiscal Policy (MOF), Member of Council for Science and Technology, Basic Plan Special Committee (MLIT).

Outside director of OMRON Corporation and Pia Corporation. Auditor of The Asahi Shimbun Company.

Fujiyo Ishiguro

Director

President and CEO, Netyear Group Corp.

Fujiyo Ishiguro is President & CEO of Netyear Group Corp., a Marketing company focused on Internet Services, having more than 150 active clients in 2010. Netyear completed its IPO in March of 2008 on TSE/Mothers.

Prior to taking the reigns at Netyear, Ms. Ishiguro was a founder of US-based consulting firm. She provided strategic advice Silicon Valley startups such as Yahoo, and Netscape, as well as mature technology companies including Oracle and Adobe. She also consulted about US market opportunities to large Japanese clients including Sony, NEC, Panasonic, NTT, Toshiba, Toyota, and many others. During this consulting work, she specialized in promoting the technology transfer between US and Japan.

Prior to this, she held the managerial position in marketing at Swarovski, the world leading crystal manufacturer located in Austria. She implemented their entry strategy to Japan as a manger of the new division and increased the sales revenue by tenfold in 5 years to $2M.

She started her career at Brother Industries, Ltd. where she was in charge of Product marketing of computer devices to US and Europe.

Her recent publication was “Don’t try the work that you were told”. She is a commentator for several TV programs and a member of several committees within the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. She is a member of advisory board in ad:tech Tokyo.

She received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Economics from Nagoya University. She was a visiting professor at Nagoya University in 2002 and 2010.