
Director, Global Investment at Institute of Renewable Energy & Environment (IREE) Global Co. Ltd
Japan

Director, Global Investment at Institute of Renewable Energy & Environment (IREE) Global Co. Ltd
Japan
(Renewables & Environment industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
IREE-Global is a project development company that is focussed on evaluating, developing, owning and operating an integrated group of renewable energy projects focussed on Wind, Solar, Bio Fuels and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies. We are focussed on serving an increasing demand for renewable energy across Asia. Our group is anchored around our flagship company Hydrogen Power Co Ltd which is listed on the Kosdaq public stock exchange and which has has assembled a diverse team of experienced engineering, procurement and construction professionals to enable us to execute on projects.
(Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Imindi is launching a web based application to help to augment individual and collective intelligence.
The company is a spin out based on patent pending technology that combines knowledge and ideas from comptuter science and neuroscience.
Investing at the early stages, I led the commercialisation team that led to the formation of Imindi Inc and a product that was chosen out of 1000 companies to launch as one of the 50 finalists at the prestigious Techcrunch 50 show in Silicon Valley in September 2008.
Imindi was recently chosen by Read Write Web as one of the 10 Semantic Web applications to watch in 2009.
(Food & Beverages industry)
September 2003 — Present (5 years 11 months)
Fizzy Fruit makes fruit fun to eat for kids.
Investing at the early stages when Fizzy Fruit was just an idea and some intellectual property I led the initial commercialisation team that led to the formation of The Fizzy Fruit Company and a product that is served in schools across the United States.
Fizzy Fruit has been the recipient of the coveted award for innovation by Popular Science Magazine in 2006 as well as coverage in the USA on CNN, FOX, NBC, Food Network, Newsweek, People, Wired and USA Today as well as on the National Television in Japan and around the world.
The company is preparing to launch its packaged product in 2010 in partnership with a large multinational fruit company.
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
May 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)
Mind Fund is a builder of start up venture companies and projects based in the US and Japan .
We focus on developing and commercialising new technology and intellectual property that enhance Nutrition, Water, Energy and Intelligence.
Our bases in the United States and Japan enable us to take a global approach to our projects from day one.
(Management Consulting industry)
November 2000 — Present (8 years 9 months)
Source of Inspiration Ltd helps venture funded startups and other owners of innovative products, technology and intellectual property in the United States, Europe or Japan to successfully expand internationally.
International business development strategies include establishing wholly owned subsidiaries or forming a joint venture or licensing partnership with owners of complementary assets such as manufacturing, distribution or management expertise.
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
During this period I worked for one of Japan`s most interesting entrepreneurs and investors Joi Ito at Digital Garage and his other company Neoteny Inc. Digital Garage is an operator of internet start up companies and Neoteny is an early stage venture capital company. Working for Digital Garage and then to help Neoteny`s Portfolio companies during these exciting times taught me so much about entrepreneurship and venture capital investing and business development and it really opened my eyes to a new world of finance. Without a doubt, this was my foundational experience on both sides of the entrepreneurial adventure and I remain profoundly grateful to Joi Ito and his team for the opportunity to learn and grow.
BA (Hons) , Law and Japanese , 1992 — 1996
http://www.soas.ac.uk/
1985 — 1992
Reading, movies, swimming.