David Suzuki
Founder And Chief Executive Officer at Blackpanda
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Suzuki is a founder and CEO with nearly 30 years' experience leading corporate investigations, cyber crisis response and intelligence operations across the Indo-Pacific, based between Tokyo and Hong Kong. He built Blackpanda’s Japan business from first principles—creating its Cyber Crime Investigation unit, forging strategic distributor and insurer partnerships, and launching Blackpanda Japan into a market-leading regional DFIR and incident response practice. In 2025 he founded Kikutora Special Risks, a tech-powered security intelligence firm specializing in cross-domain crisis response across web3, cyber, and physical risk. Equally at home in board-level risk advisory and hands-on operational investigations, he has worked with US federal law enforcement on civil forfeiture and supported transnational cyber-fraud litigation. Fluent in Japanese and English with a background in field investigations and IP protection, he combines a network of former special-forces and intelligence operators with pragmatic entrepreneurial skill. A detail many miss: his career blends traditional human-source tradecraft with modern tech-driven security solutions, positioning him uniquely at the intersection of old-school intelligence and web3-era risk.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
St. Mary's International SchoolB.A., History, B.A., History at The University of British Columbia
English, JapaneseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
davidsoft318/NFT-Art-Platform
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:148 commits in 6 months
davidsoft318/OpenMint
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:142 commits, 1 branch in 12 days
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