Executive Board Members
Yoshiki Sasaki
BE mechanical engineering(1973) and ME systems engineering(1976) at Kyoto University. Sales manager and engineer at Hitachi, Ltd. ( Steel rolling plants, FA systems) Industry Consultant at SRI International(1988). Board member at Japan Asia Investment Co., Ltd (JAIC) (1996), Managing Director of International Operations(1998). Retired as Senior Managing Director after its listing on main board of TSE(2008). CEO at JSC(2004~), President at JAIC Seed Capital(2005~2013), Director at TSI(2002~), CEO at Human Life Management(2008~). At JAIC, invested in Alibaba.com and was board member, also invested in Saigon Securities , and was responsible for more than 100 companies.
Kazutaka Fujiwara
BA in Law at Jochi University, Investment professional, financial advisory consulting, investment banking and turn around of companies, branch manager in Fukuoka at Japan Asia Investment Co., Ltd (1988~2001), join SIP (2001), CEO and president at SIP investment (2005~2009) Director at JSC (2013~)
Ken-ichi Uehara
B.E. in applied physics and M. A. in Economics at University of Tsukuba, Director (CEO) of JSC (Tsukuba Technology Seed） 2004-2009(CEO), 2014- (Director), Director of Tsukuba Incubation Lab. Inc. 2001-2009,2014-Professor of Tsukuba Industrial Liaison and Cooperative Research Center, University of Tsukuba 2009-2014, Professor of Graduate School for Management of Technology, Nippon Institute of Technology 2005-2009 CEO of Institute of Tsukuba Liaison Inc. 1999-2002, Senior manager of JAFCO Co., Ltd. 1998-2001 Manager of Nippon Mining Co., Ltd. 1983-1998
Masayuki Saito
Saito joined JSC in April 2014, bringing 35 years of financial industry experience. Until March 2014, Saito was with Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (MSIVC) for 12+ years and involved in 100+ investments as Partner. The latter half of the work in MSIVC, Saito headed the investment division as Director and was a member of the investment committee. Before joining MSIVC, Saito worked in Indonesia for 3 years and in the UK for 5 years as Finance Director of the insurance subsidiaries of The Sumitomo Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Kumiko Takekoshi
M.A. in Management at the University of Paris XI, bringing 16 years experiences with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on agribusiness development projects in 9 African countries. After working as an advisor to Arenabio Co., Ltd., she joined Japan Strategic Capital in 2020 and has been involved in hands-on investment in domestic and overseas ventures, support for commercialization of university research and technology seeds, and expansion of investment activities into Africa.