Brief Personal History of President & CEO

Goodhope Research Institute, Inc. (GRI) : 1999 to present

Founded GRI in 1999 and engaged in consulting for corporate management, investor relations, marketing consultant & partnership. Assist foreign enterprises and investors who will make inroad into Japanese market in their business campaign.

Japan Satellite Systems Inc.( present JSAT Corporation): 1996 to 1999

• Executive vice President: 1997 to 1999
• Executive Senior Managing Director & General Manager of Marketing Division, 1996 to 1997
• Executive President of Satellite Communication Center Inc.: 1996 to 1998

Nissho Iwai Corporation, Tokyo, Japan: 1961 to 1996

• Associate Director & General Manager of Secretariat Office: 1992 to 1996
• Managing Director & General Manager of Nissho Iwai International: 1989 to 1992
• General Manager of Public Relations: 1987 to 1989
• General Manager of Nissho Iwai Johannesburg, South Africa Office: 1985 to 1987
• Manager of Heavy Machinery Export Section, Tokyo Japan: 1975 to 1982
• Administration Office for the President, Management Planning Section: 1961 to 1966

Public Service

• 1987~89 Chairman of Public Relations Sub-Committee of Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc.
• 1990~92 Oversea Committee member of International Cultural Exchange Council of Nippon Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations)
• 1996 to present : Board member of The Modern Economic Research Institute.

Publications

Wrote and published the book, "Survival of Sogo Shosha", Japan Productivity Institute, in 1983.

Education

University of Tokyo, Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Psychology, graduated in 1961.